Curriculum sequence:

Units:         Shakespeare’s life and times week 1-2

                    Shakespearean sonnets week 3-4

                    Intro to Comedy / Much Ado About Nothing week 5

                    A Midsummer Night’s Dream week 6-8

                    Comedy Assessment / As You Like It week 9

Units:     Intro to Literary Criticism week1-2

                The Merchant of Venice week 2-5

            Intro to Tragedy / Macbeth week 6-7

                Hamlet week 8-10

Units:        King Lear week 1-3

             Tragedy Assessment / Othello week 4-5

                    Intro to History Plays week 6-8

                            Richard II 
                            Henry IV Part I and II
                    Henry V

Units:        The Tempest week 1-4

Final projects (final paper due) week 5-6

Portfolio preparation and presentation week 7-8