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Topic Area	Time Period	Primary Source Evidence	Secondary Source Evidence
Heroes	Anglo-Saxon	Beowulf pg 21 (Beowulf is example of epic hero; wants to make himself look good)	"The Anglo-Saxons" pg 10
Heroes	Medieval ?	"The Death of Arthur" pg 171 (Arthur is an example of a romance hero; displays chivalrous qualities)	"Before You Read: The Death of Arthur" pg 170, "The Middle Ages" pg 72
Heroes	Renaissance ?	Macbeth pg 301 (Macbeth is an example of a tragic hero; causes his own downfall)	"Handbook of Literary Terms" pg 1203, "Shakespeare's Globe Theater"
Heroes	Victorian ?	Treasure Island (Jim is a reluctant hero; he is thrown into a situation which requires him to step up)	"The Victorian Period" pg 799, The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Heroes	Modern ?	Grendel (Grendel is an example of an anti-hero; he does many negative things but the reader still feels for him)	"The Twentieth Century" pg 915, Exploring The Dark Side: The Anti-Hero's Journey by James Bonnet
Class	Medieval ?	The Canterbury Tales "The Prologue" pg 105 (Descriptions of different characters show the different classes in the time period)	"The Middle Ages" pg 82
Class	Renaissance ?	Macbeth pg 324 (Crudeness of the porter vs. the nobels' more respectable words and iambic pentameter)	TBD
Class	Restoration ?	"A Modest Proposal" pg 502 (Rich people finding it classy to eat poor Irish children)	"Life Among the 'Haves'..." pg 472, and "...And Life Among the 'Have-Nots'" pg 478
Class	Victorian ?	"How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy pg 883 (Differences between sisters- one married to a tradesman, another to a peasant)	"The Victorian Period" pg 794
Class	Modern ?	Brave New World(Differences in jobs and treatment between classes, alcohol given to fetuses to produce lower class, conditioning)	"The Twentieth Century" pg 912
Women	Medieval ?	The Canterbury Tales "The Wife of Bath's Tale" pg 138 (Men don't know what women want- never had a chance to tell them before, Chaucer mocks society's treatment of women)	"The Middle Ages" pg 81
Women	Renaissance ?	Macbeth pg 301 (Lady Macbeth's influence on her husband was significant enough to make him murder his king)	"The Renaissance" pg 205
Women	Romanticism ?	"La Belle Dame sans Merci" pg 751 (Mysterious woman takes control of a man with her beauty and charm)	A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Women	Victorian ?	Treasure Island(Long John Silver leaves his lady to run his business while he's off treasure hunting)	"Women and Urban Life in Victorian England" by Lynda Nead
Women	Modern ?	Brave New World (Women of equal stance as all men)	Current events ex. Hillary Clinton

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