本单元具体教学内容、教学基本要求、单元重点与难点

1. 教学内容

1）A brief introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser and their masterpieces

2）Shakespeare's writing

3）Sonnets

4）An analysis of The  Faerie Queene

5）An analysis of The Canterbury Tales

6）Discussion

7）Exercises for critical thinking

2. 教学基本要求

1) Make students know the social background: the two opposite classes, the enclosure movement, Renaissance etc.. 

2) Make Ss have a general  idea of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and their masterpieces.

3) Make Ss have an idea of  Humanism and English Renaissance. 

4) Make clear about the differences between Shakespeare's sonnets and that of Petrarch's.

5) Appreciation of one of Shakespeare's sonnets. 

6) Make Ss know something about Shakespeare's narrative poems.

 

3. 单元重点、难点 

重点：

1) English Renaissance and Humanism;

2) An introduction to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and their masterpieces; 

3) Sonnets;

4)An analysis of The  Faerie Queene.

 

难点：

1) The reasons why Renaissance appeared and how it exerted an influence on  literature;

2) Main ideas of Renaissance and the essence of Humanism;

3) Differences between Shakespeare's and Petrarch's sonnets.