Mon, Jan 2, 2023
Begin Unit 5 -- 17th and 18th Centuries
Assign Reading over Unit 5 -- 17th and 18th Centuries -- record notes over key ideas of the time
Read historical background pg 470-473 in Brit Lit Anthology (Notes if not in class)
Assignment:: Song ("Why so pale and wan)
Read and discuss Build Background (BB) pg 474
Read and discuss Historical Context pg 474
Assign Journal writing - Reader's Context pg 474
Discuss repetition and speaker; Discuss Set Purpose pg 474
Read pg 475 "Song" Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 475
Complete discussion questions 1-5 page 476
Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to:
read, interpret, analyze and evaluate a lyric poem about unrequited love.
understand how Cavalier poetry influenced this literature.
analyze and understand repetition and speaker.
Tue, Jan 3, 2023
Discuss "Song"
Assignment:: Cavalier Poems
Read and discuss Build Background (BB) pg 477
Assign Journal writing - Reader's Context pg 47
Discuss theme and symbol; Discuss Set Purpose pg 477
Read pg 478-480 "To Althea, from Prison" Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 480
Read pg 481 "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" Reflect on M&W pg 481
Complete discussion questions 1-5 page 482
Objectives
After studying this lesson, students will be able to
read, interpret, analyze and evaluate two lyric poems about love, liberty and duty.
understand how the historical context of the English Civil War influenced the literature.
analyze and understand theme and symbol.
Wed, Jan 4, 2023
Discuss "To Althea" and "To Lucasta"
Assignment:
Read and discuss Build Background (BB) pg 484
Assign Journal writing - Reader's Context pg 484
Discuss metaphor and hyperbole; Discuss Set Purpose pg 484
Read pg 485 "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 485
Read pg 486-487 "To His Coy Mistress" Reflect on M&W pg 487
Complete discussion questions 1-5 page 488
Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to
read, interpret, analyze and evaluate two lyric poems about the carpe diem theme.
understand how the context of Cavalier poetry and Neoclassicism affected this literature.
analyze and understand metaphor and hyperbole.
Thu, Jan 5, 2023
Discuss Carpe Diem poems "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and "To His Coy Mistress"
Write a poem using the theme Carpe Diem (everyone). Write it from a perspective of a senior in high school getting ready to venture into the world. What advice might you give your fellow classmates? Using "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" as a model, write a minimum of four, four line stanzas with an A-B-A-B rhyme scheme. Use the rest of class to work on your poems.
Due Typed and printed Mon in class.
College students: Post your poems to the Stream and respond to each others by Wed.
Fri, Jan 6, 2023
No School