Overview
British Literature & Composition is a core credit course option as part of the traditional pathway that can be used to satisfy the third or fourth credit required for graduation. This course must utilize the 9- 12 standards and the appropriate grade-level expectations of Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards. British Literature & Composition is a comprehensive course that explores Great Britain’s rich literary heritage through its texts, authors, and movements. The emphasis placed on British literature remains embedded in the standards through the Periods & Movements big idea in grades 6- 12, which provides a sustained opportunity to analyze texts through the lens of their historical and/or literary context. For more information, see the Considering Periods & Movements resource.

Course Description
British Literature & Composition focuses on the integrated study of British texts; students develop an understanding of texts from at least three literary periods, considering history's impact on and analyzing the literature's text structures, themes, and stylistic features. Students routinely engage in the integrated and recursive literacy practices that ground, shape, and inform their interpretations and constructions of texts that apply their grammar conventions, vocabulary, context, structure and style, techniques, research and analysis, and periods and movements understandings. This course must utilize the 9-12 standards and appropriate grade-level expectations of Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts (ELA) Standards.

British Literature & Composition is a core (c) course that counts toward graduation requirements; this course can also be used as an elective (e) credit.