National Standards for the English Language Arts (British Literature)

From the National Council for Teachers of English and the International Reading Association - Standards 1 and 2

1. Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works. To meet this standard students can ew information to respond to the needs and demands of society and the read:

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Fiction

Novels
• Sir Thomas More's Utopia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2a.asp
  
• Aphra Behn -- The First Woman to Make a Living Writing
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3g.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Clarissa and Robinson Crusoe: The Novel Emerges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4d.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5d.asp
  
• Victorian Novelists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  
• Jane Eyre
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8c.asp
  
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Emma
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8d.asp
  
• Silas Marner and Middlemarch
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8f.asp
  
• A Tale of Two Cities
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8h.asp
  
• David Copperfield
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8i.asp
  

Short stories
• Oscar Wilde
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10b.asp
  
• Thomas Hardy -- The Last Victorian?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10c.asp
  
• Virginia Woolf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10d.asp
  

Plays
• Renaissance, Reason, and Order
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2.asp
  
• Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2h.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Comedy of Manners -- Stage Sitcoms
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp
  

Literary classics
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Adam, Eve, and the Serpent -- Milton's Paradise Lost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3f.asp
  
• Aphra Behn -- The First Woman to Make a Living Writing
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3g.asp
  
• Satire, Sitcoms, Newspapers and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Clarissa and Robinson Crusoe: The Novel Emerges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4d.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5d.asp
  
• Ode on Intimations of Immortality
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6b.asp
  
• Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6c.asp
  
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6d.asp
  
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6e.asp
  
• Kubla Khan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6f.asp
  
• Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Meek and Bold
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6h.asp
  
• The Short Life of John Keats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6i.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Victorian Novelists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  
• Jane Eyre
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8c.asp
  
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Emma
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8d.asp
  
• Silas Marner and Middlemarch
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8f.asp
  
• A Tale of Two Cities
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8h.asp
  
• David Copperfield
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8i.asp
  
• Victorian Heroes and Heroines AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/9.asp
  
• End of the Century Essayists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10a.asp
  

Nonfiction

Newspapers
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Grub Street -- The First Newspapers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4c.asp
  

Journals
• William Wordsworth, Poetic Revolutionary
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6a.asp
  

Magazine articles
• Kubla Khan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6f.asp
  

Biographies
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• Sir Thomas More's Utopia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2a.asp
  
• Elizabeth I, Queen Who Shaped an Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2d.asp
  
• Shakespeare's Sisters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2f.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• To Make a Point: Prose Without Frills
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3a.asp
  
• John Donne and the Metaphysical Conceit
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3b.asp
  
• The Metaphysical Poets
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3c.asp
  
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3d.asp
  
• John Milton
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3e.asp
  
• Aphra Behn -- The First Woman to Make a Living Writing
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3g.asp
  
• Satire, Sitcoms, Newspapers and Novels AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• William Wordsworth, Poetic Revolutionary
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6a.asp
  
• Ode on Intimations of Immortality
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp
  
• Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Meek and Bold
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6h.asp
  
• The Short Life of John Keats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6i.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Victorian Novelists AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8.asp
  
• Dickens's Pip: Great Expectations
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/9a.asp
  
• Into the 20th century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10.asp
  

Autobiographies
• To Make a Point: Prose Without Frills
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3a.asp
  
• The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4e.asp
  
• Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6c.asp
  
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6d.asp
  
• End of the Century Essayists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10a.asp
  

Creative nonfiction
• Grub Street -- The First Newspapers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4c.asp
  
• The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4e.asp
  

Literary Criticism
• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  Students can use the content from all Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Other nonfiction
• Shakespeare's Sisters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2f.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• To Make a Point: Prose Without Frills
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3a.asp
  
• The Metaphysical Poets
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3c.asp
  
• John Milton
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3e.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4e.asp
  
• Mary Wollstonecraft
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4f.asp
  
• Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Meek and Bold
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6h.asp
  
• End of the Century Essayists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10a.asp
  

Poetry

• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  

Nonprint texts such as pictures and paintings, video or film

• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  All Beyond Books literature programs contain nonprint texts such as pictures, video, and audio resources that students can use to help achieve this standard.
  

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The Periods

"The Origins of English Literature"-Anglo Saxons to Norman Conquest (650-1066)
• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Yes, It Is English
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1a.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  

Middle Ages to 1485 (including Middle English in the 14th and 15th centuries)
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• From Pen to Printing Press
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2e.asp
  

Sixteenth Century (1485-1603) including the English Renaissance and the Elizabethan Age
• Workshop: The Sonnet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2i.asp
  

The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) including the Enlightenment and the Restoration
• Workshop: Rhythm and Meter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3h.asp
  
• Grub Street -- The First Newspapers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4c.asp
  

The Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)
• Grub Street -- The First Newspapers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4c.asp
  
• Clarissa and Robinson Crusoe: The Novel Emerges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4d.asp
  
• The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4e.asp
  
• Mary Wollstonecraft
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4f.asp
  

The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
• Political and Social Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  

The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Victorian Heroes and Heroines AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/9.asp
  

The Twentieth Century
• Into the 20th century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10.asp
  

The Genres

Autobiography
• To Make a Point: Prose Without Frills
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3a.asp
  
• The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4e.asp
  
• Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6c.asp
  
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6d.asp
  
• End of the Century Essayists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10a.asp
  

Ballads
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  

Biography
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• Sir Thomas More's Utopia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2a.asp
  
• Elizabeth I, Queen Who Shaped an Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2d.asp
  
• Shakespeare's Sisters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2f.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Satire, Sitcoms, Newspapers and Novels AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• William Wordsworth, Poetic Revolutionary
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6a.asp
  
• Ode on Intimations of Immortality
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp
  
• Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Meek and Bold
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6h.asp
  
• The Short Life of John Keats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6i.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Victorian Novelists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8.asp
  
• Dickens's Pip: Great Expectations
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/9a.asp
  
• Into the 20th century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10.asp
  

Creative nonfiction
• Grub Street -- The First Newspapers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4c.asp
  
• The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4e.asp
  

Drama
• Renaissance, Reason, and Order
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2.asp
  
• Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2h.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Comedy of Manners -- Stage Sitcoms
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp
  

Fictional short stories
• Oscar Wilde
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10b.asp
  
• Thomas Hardy -- The Last Victorian?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10c.asp
  
• Virginia Woolf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/10d.asp
  

Journals
• William Wordsworth, Poetic Revolutionary
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6a.asp
  

Literary Criticism
• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  Students can use the content from all Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Novels
• Sir Thomas More's Utopia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2a.asp
  
• Aphra Behn -- The First Woman to Make a Living Writing
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3g.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Clarissa and Robinson Crusoe: The Novel Emerges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4d.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5d.asp
  
• Victorian Novelists AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8.asp
  

Newspapers
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Grub Street -- The First Newspapers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4c.asp
  

Poetry
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7a.asp
  
• The Brownings
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7b.asp
  
• The Rossettis
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7c.asp
  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7d.asp
  
• Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7e.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp