Which British Lit curriculum would you recommend

[hpymomof3]

I'm trying to decide between Learning Language Arts Through Literature British Literature and Lightning Literature-Brit Lit. I need something that we can do in a semester. Since DD can't return to school this year like we planned she will be doing 1 semester of British literature this year and the 2nd semester next year at the high school. They will be focusing on the writing portion next year so the school told me to just focus on vocabulary, grammar and British Literature this semester. Since she won't be doing the writing portion of either curriculum I think we can do it in a semester. I will also have to provide tests somehow so I'm wondering which course would be easier to test. Since dd is currently having health problems I don't want anything that is too challenging. If I decide on Lightning Literature I'm also wondering which would be easier-the early to mid 19th century of the 2nd book, which covers a later time period.

[Emma]

I don't know about the two you mentioned, but I have a friend who is using Sonlight's British Lit. She loves it and thinks it is amazingly well done.

[hpymomof3]

Sonlight looks great but is a lot more than I can spend. Thanks anyway though.

[Faithr]

I love Lightening Lit for British Lit. We did the Medieval (Beowulf, Sir Gawain and The Canterbury Tales.). So we didn't do every piece of literature. I felt free to pick and choose what I thought I could teach and what would most appeal to my kids. We also did the same thing with Brit Lit Early to Mid 19th Cen. We did almost all of that except I skipped Frankenstein and Jane Eyre. I didn't do the Shakespeare guide because the year before both teens (at that time) had taken a year long course taught by another homeschool mom who had been a theater major and LOVED Shakespeare. Also I didn't bother with the Brit Lit Mid to Late 19th Cen because they'd already had a fair amount of exposure to Dickens, Eliot and R.L.Stevenson. I did have them read Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell when we talked about the industrial revolution. Then we ended the year doing the Christian British Lit we was the best guide of all in my opinion! We read C.S. Lewis' the Four Loves, Gerard Manley Hopkins and T.S. Eliot. I absolutely fell in love with the latter two poets! We wound up spending a lot of time on them. We didn't have time to do an extensive study of Chesterton and Sayers so instead I substituted shorts stories. We read The Blue Cross by Chesterton and I had planned to read a short Lord Peter Wimsey story but alas time got away from us and we ended with Chesterton.

I plan to use these guides again for my younger kids. It was a great year for Lit.