Process
1- Divide in 5 groups of five or six students.
You will spend four lessons working on this subject.
2- Each group must choose a period of the history of the English Literature.
3- Click on the chosen period and work out the suggested questions together. Write down the answers in the attached document.
B- RENAISSANCE AND RESTORATION
C- THE RISE OF THE NOVEL - 18TH CENTURY
D- ROMANTICISM AND VICTORIAN TIMES
4-Now every student individually must write a summary of either the biography of a writer or the plot of one of the literary works mentioned.
5- Put the essays together with the ones of the rest of the students in your group and create a cover for your “brochure” of the period.
The cover must contain at least a representative image and a quotation of a writer you liked.
These web sites might be useful for this:
http://www.notable-quotes.com/author_index.html
6- Finally all the students will present the writer or the work they have studied about to the rest of the class orally.
As a follow-up activity, we will watch a film based on a relevant English novel and you will read an abridged adaptation of another.
To fulfil these tasks you will need to use a dictionary:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=
Although every question is linked with the appropriate websites where you will certainly find the information demanded, here you are also some useful on-line encyclopedias:
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/