Ages 10 to 11

Semester 1
Main text: Beowulf
Poetry: Keats/Shelley/Byron
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Second text: A Christmas Carol
History: Anglo Saxon England
Essay: Elegiac regret in Beowulf

Semester 2
Main text: Dante's Inferno
Poetry: Wordsworth
Shakespeare: Sonnets 2
Second text: Oedipus Rex
History: Medieval Catholic Church
Essay: Horror in Inferno