Week Fifteen: December 6--10

ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN OF THE TUDOR MONARCHS

Readings for the Week: 

1. From Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion:  Read Book IV, Chapter 20, "Of Civil Government.  Keep this chapter in mind as we deal with political upheavals in England and Scotland.
2. Read lots and lots of poems from The Annotated John Milton: Complete English Poems.  Glance, on occasion at Paradise Lost and imagine how wonderful it will be when we read it.
3. Finish Douglas Kelly's The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World: The Influence of Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through the 18th Centuries, Introduction and Chapter 4 "Calvinism in England: The Puritan Struggle and Its Results."
4. Read Justo Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity, Volume II. Chapter 8, The Reformation in Great Britain
5. Finishing reading the complete version of  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Monday:

•        More on "The Reformation in England" with a Timeline of Key Events and People
•         Film/Documentary:   "The Body of the Queen"

Tuesday:

•   Who were the Puritans?
•    Continue film/documentary

Wednesday

•  Continue Notes and Readings on the Puritans
• Continue film/documentary
•  Readings from Milton and others
• TEST OVER TUDOR ENGLAND

 Thursday

• England's Golden Age Under Elizabeth
• The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
• The Problem of Succession
• The Continued Presence of Puritans

   Friday

• TEST OVER THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 
• Poets of the Age:  Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ben Johnson, & Others

EXTRA WORK:
1.  Worksheets over The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World. Due Thursday, December 9.

2.  Read all the "shorter" poems of John Milton.  "Shorter" means any poem that is not an epic.  This means pages 1-130. Due By Christmas Eve.

Field Trip this week if possible to the Tudor era castle and garden grounds pictured above.

  

Queen Elizabeth