1. The History of English Literature is not just a chronological account of works written in the English Language. It is a record of the relationship between a writer and those who precede him or her; it is a record of the relationship between different ages; it records the rise, the growth and the decline of styles and movements; it is a record of the influence of individual writers upon their age, and vice versa.
To understand a work of literature, we must understand the personal and wider forces which shaped it – i.e. the context and time it was written in.

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3. You will be looking at different periods of English Literature:
A period is a certain length of time during which a particular taste prevails
Different ages have different tastes and different ways of thinking
The literature written in a certain age therefore has certain common features, such as subject matter, tone and style
The periods of English Literature are connected to the historical periods in which they existed, e.g. the Elizabethan age; the Victorian age
Anglo Saxon/Old English
Middle English
Renaissance (Elizabethan)
Renaissance (Jacobean)
Neo-Classical (Restoration)
Neo-Classical (Age of Enlightenment) c18th (up to 1798)
Romantic
Victorian
Modern >

4. Outside there are a number of timeline sheets…find your writer and then come back into the classroom and form a ‘human timeline’.
Anglo Saxon/Old English
Middle English
Renaissance (Elizabethan)
Renaissance (Jacobean)
Neo-Classical (Restoration)
Neo-Classical (Age of Enlightenment) c18th (up to 1798)
Romantic
Victorian
Modern >

5. Outside there are a number of timeline sheets…find the historical ‘event’ and then come back into the classroom and form a ‘human timeline’.
Anglo Saxon/Old English
Middle English
Renaissance (Elizabethan)
Renaissance (Jacobean)
Neo-Classical (Restoration)
Neo-Classical (Age of Enlightenment) c18th (up to 1798)
Romantic
Victorian
Modern >

6. Outside there are a number of timeline sheets…find the historical content and style and write it into the correct era.
Anglo Saxon/Old English
Middle English
Renaissance (Elizabethan)
Renaissance (Jacobean)
Neo-Classical (Restoration)
Neo-Classical (Age of Enlightenment) c18th (up to 1798)
Romantic
Victorian
Modern >

7. You will create a detailed timeline that includes the different periods of English Literature:
Your summer task…

8. You will create a detailed timeline that includes the different periods of English Literature:
Anglo Saxon/Old English
Middle English
Renaissance (Elizabethan)
Renaissance (Jacobean)
Neo-Classical (Restoration)
Neo-Classical (Age of Enlightenment) c18th (up to 1798)
Romantic
Victorian
Modern >