Good Guys and Bad Guys are all around us! Who doesn’t love a good villain and who doesn’t want the hero to win? While literature is full of heroes we love and villains we love to hate, we will also discuss the characteristics of heroes and villains in our society today.  We begin in British Literature where we will study the origin of the hero story, focusing on the classic story of good and evil in Beowulf. Arguably the most celebrated hero of all time is King Arthur who saved England from ruin but then watched it fall around him. We then end our semester with our mythological study of the hero’s journey in Harry Potter.  As this is a senior English elective, we will focus on close reading and literary analysis as well as continue to hone our writing skills, all while we read about heroes and their fight against villains.