Engl 12 1/2/23

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