**NEWER VERSION OF THIS COURSE IS NOW AVAILABLE** Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) (Victorian Classics) with Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (Modern, Victorian)

Instructor Access (Optional grading support) is available for this course. It is ONLY recommended if you wish to write the optional paper. All quizzes are internally graded in this course. 

Dear Student,

This course is scheduled to be retired on Aug 30, 2024.  You may continue using this course; however, we highly suggest moving to the new, updated course.  

https://moodle.homeschoolconnectionsonline.com/course/view.php?id=4128

NOTICE: This is an older course recorded with Adobe Connect and/or Vimeo recordings. We are currently working to replace the recordings with new Zoom recordings.  Please don't hesitate to email us at homeschoolconnections@gmail.com with any questions.

How to get the most out of Jane Eyre:

    1. Read the assigned chapters of the novel (outlined in the course description).
    2. Take the quiz for that chapter range (do this BEFORE watching the recorded class). 
    3. Watch each Recorded class session. 
    4. Complete additional quizzes and assignments as they are ordered on the moodle class page. 
    5. Review recorded classes if/as you need to. 
    6. Once the course is completed to the parent's satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end to be filled in for your records. Homeschool Connections does not provide record keeping.
IF planning on the optional literary-critical writing assignment:
  1. Contact the Instructor early to discuss possible topics and your proposed timeline for composition and completion.
  2. As you read, mark or otherwise identify passages that might be useful in developing your paper.
  3. Be prompt with your deadlines.

Total Classes: 6

Prerequisite: Reading of Volume 1 of Jane Eyre before the first day of class

Suggested Grade Level: 9th to 12th grade

Suggested High School Credit: ½ semester credit for Literature or English

Instructor: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

Course Description: When a “poor, obscure, plain and little” governess takes a position at Thornfield Hall, she little expects to be swept up by the passion and dark secrets of her enigmatic employer, Mr. Rochester. One of the most famous novels of the mid-Victorian period, Jane Eyre exemplifies the Bildungsroman (“coming-of-age”) genre, and, in fact, radically defined that genre in the English literary tradition. Providing a notable contrast to the secularizing influences of its period (not to mention those of our own, which determinedly misreads the novel), Brontë distinctively grounds her heroine and her novel in Christian moral understanding. The novel presents a host of themes: What is “The Novel”? What is the role of education (especially of women)? How are the natural world and the human person related? What is the role of Gothic atmosphere? What is the relationship between Reason and Feeling—especially in the light of the Fall? Our studies will also address the novel’s biographical and historical context, providing insight into the mid-Victorian Period. In this course, we will come to know Jane Eyre and the remarkable novel that bears her name, studying both over six classes.

Course Outline:

  • Class one: Volume 1, Chapters 1-7.
  • Class two: Volume 1, Chapters 8-15.
  • Class three: Volume 2, Chapters 1-5.
  • Class four: Volume 2, Chapters 6-11.
  • Class five: Volume 3, Chapters 1-6.
  • Class six: Volume 3, Chapters 7-12.

Course Materials: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Ignatius Critical Edition), ISBN 978-1586176990 (https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586176994/catholictreas-20).