Year 11 English Extension

Year 11 ENGLISH EXTENSION

Term 1
Week 1 — Development of English Literature – The Anglo Saxon Foundation
Week 2 — Development of English Literature – Middle English
Week 3 — Development of English Literature – The English Renaissance
Week 4 — Development of English Literature – Neoclassicism
Week 5 — Development of English Literature – Romanticism
Week 6 — Modern and Postmodern – Realism
Week 7 — Modern and Postmodern – Modernist Fiction
Week 8 — Modern and Postmodern – Modernist Poetry
Week 9 — Modern and Postmodern – Postmodern Fiction
Week 10 — Modern and Postmodern – Postmodern Poetry

Term 2
Week 1 — Literary Mindscapes – Interior Worlds: Augustine and Descartes
Week 2 — Literary Mindscapes – Perception and Consciousness: Freud and Lacan
Week 3 — Literary Mindscapes-: The Individual Alone: Sartre
Week 4 — Literary Mindscapes – Identity and Alterity: Faucault
Week 5 — Literary Mindscapes – Identity Politics
Week 6 — Worlds of Upheaval – Literature and Turmoil: Socio-Political Change
Week 7 — Worlds of Upheaval – Unity vs Division
Week 8 — Worlds of Upheaval – Overcoming Division: Lyotard and Habermas
Week 9 — Worlds of Upheaval – Literature as Agent of Change: Sartre”s Literature of Engagement
Week 10 — Worlds of Upheaval – Change through Literary Innovation: Lyotard’s Discourse/Figure

Term 3
Week 1 — Literary Homelands – Place and Culture I: Pre-Modern
Week 2 — Literary Homelands – Place and Culture II: Modern
Week 3 — Literary Homelands – Place and Culture III: Postmodern
Week 4 — Literary Homelands – Individuals and Communities: Individual vs Social Perspectives
Week 5 — Literary Homelands – Notions of ‘Homelands’: Colonial vs Post-Colonial Writing
Week 6 — Reimagined Worlds – Imagined Worlds I: Utopian Tradition
Week 7 — Reimagined Worlds – Imagined Worlds II: Literary Dystopias
Week 8 — Reimagined Worlds – New Worlds, New Experiences: Adorno
Week 9 — Reimagined Worlds – Cognitive Estrangement: Suvin
Week 10 — Reimagined Worlds – Defamiliarisation: Shklovsky

Term 4 (Year 12 Headstart)
Week 1 — Structural Analysis for Extension I Essays
Week 2 — Pathways within Texts
Week 3 — Evaluating Theme, Purpose and Context
Week 4 — Trusting Our Opinion
Week 5 — Analysing Discourse
Week 6 — Pathways Between Texts
Week 7 — The Creative Response
Week 8 — Ideology and Interpretation
Week 9 — Structure and Teleology
Week 10 — The Integrated Essay