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essential question: How do our attitudes toward the past and future shape our actions?

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UNIT 1

Speech Before Her Troops,

Queen Elizabeth I

UNIT 4

“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,”

John Donne

“Holy Sonnet 10,” John Donne

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literature selections

Literature of the Focus Period Some of the selections in the

unit were written during the Focus Period and pertain to how

our attitudes toward time shape our actions.

The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Sonnet 12, William Shakespeare

Sonnet 60, William Shakespeare

Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare

Sonnet 32, Mary Wroth

Sonnet 75, Edmund Spenser

Connections Across Time Writing about our attitudes toward

time continued long after the Focus Period. In addition, writing

from the Focus Period has vastly influenced many writers and

commentators from later time periods.

from “The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness,”

Cleanth Brooks

“Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Why Brownlee Left,” Paul Muldoon

“Man’s Short Life and Foolish Ambition,” Margaret Cavendish,

Duchess of Newcastle

“The Lagoon,” Joseph Conrad

“What’s Your Time Perspective?” Jane Collingwood

“Does Time Pass?” Peter Dizikes

1588: English navy defeats

Spanish Armada.

1607: North America

English colony is

established at Jamestown.

1620: North America Pilgrims

land at Plymouth Rock.

1625: James I dies.

1609: Italy Galileo

1603: Elizabeth I dies; builds first telescope.

James I becomes king.

1625

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Comprehension Check

Ask students to answer these questions

independently and then discuss them with the

whole class.

1. In what ways did members of the Tudor family
   effect change in England?
   Possible response: Members of the Tudor family
   brought an end to civil war in England, made
   England a Protestant country, and established the
   Protestant Church of England.


2. What was the Protestant Reformation and why
   did it happen?
   Possible response: The Reformation was a reaction
   against corruption in the Catholic Church and the
   desire to return Christianity to what some religious
   thinkers believed to be a purer form of worship.


3. What was the Renaissance, and where did
   it begin?
   Possible response: The Renaissance was a rebirth
   of learning, as interest in literature, art, and math
   regained prominence. It began in Italy.


4. How was English literacy and exploration affected
   by the Renaissance?
   Possible response: The increasing use of the
   vernacular and the improvement of the printing
   press allowed literacy to increase in England.
   Advances in astronomy, as well as the invention of
   the compass, allowed exploration to expand far
   and wide.

Literature Selections

Have students review all the selections in this

unit listed under Literature of the Focus Period

and Connections Across Time. Also point out

the Additional Focus Period Literature found in

myPerspectives. Encourage students to utilize

these selections for additional evidence as they

complete this unit.

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