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= = Welcome to Ms. Mendoza's 11CP British Literature course! This course exposes students to the connections and relationships between the devastating Holocaust experience and Literature of the 17th and 18th Century. Often, the reading public engages with literary texts from previous centuries and conceptualizes them as "things of the past". However, history tells us otherwise when tragic events recur, yet they are continuously referred to as "modern-day issues". This is a fallacy, since through close reading and observation we can establish that social turmoils of past centuries have not ceased. Through the writings of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, and Richard Lovelace, students will analyze concepts about human nature and formulate a connection to the Holocaust. Additionally, students will examine the connections between the writings of Philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the Holocaust, and writings of the 17th and 18th centuries.