This course combines a review of LTW Level I in the fall and LTW Comparison essay in the spring to provide a deeper understanding and development of thinking, organizing, and expressing ideas as well as the ability to practice writing skills with persuasive and comparison essay forms. Students will discuss the required literature selections during class time. Students will also read and discuss 10 classic poems from British poets, as well.

Additional Texts: 

British Poetry:

• Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
• Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Amoretti LXXV by Edmund Spenser
• Love Came Down at Christmas by Christina Rossetti
• The Tyger by William Blake
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
• Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
• If by Rudyard Kipling
• God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins