With over 70 selections, British Literature brings some of the best works of British authors to you students. They’ll explore the writings of Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Anita Desai and others. This text encompasses a wide range of genres— from classic to contemporary writing—and presents excerpts from novels as well as plays, short stories, poetry, speeches, essays, and other works. Students learn how writers use rhyme, figures of speech, personification, metaphor, satire, hyperbole, and other techniques to bring their words to life.
Table of contents: The Anglo-Saxon Period and Middle Ages: 449-1485, The English Renaissance: 1485-1660, The Restoration and the 18th Century: 1660-1798, The Romantic Period: 1798-1832, The Victorian Age: 1832-1901, Contemporary British Literature: 1901-Present and From the British Dominions.
*Lexile level of instructional content is 850; Lexile level of individual text selections range from 640 to 1630.
The Student Workbook includes over 90 pages of activities which address comprehension, literary analysis and interpretation, evaluative, and study skills.
The Vocabulary Workbook features over 60 pages of activities to help students become familiar with key words.
The Teacher's Resource Library CD-ROM offers hundreds of activities including those from the Student Workbook and Self-Study Guide (for students who want to work at their own pace), two forms of chapter tests, plus midterm and final tests.
Skill Track Software includes hundreds of multiple-choice items relating to the textbook’s content. Also contains group and individual reports for monitoring student’s progress. For Windows and Macintosh.
Each Curriculum Class Set includes: 10 Textbooks, 1 Teacher’s Edition plus 1 Teacher’s Resource Library.
Curriculum/Software Class Sets include Curriculum Set above plus Skill Track Software
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