Engl 12 2/12/24

Mon, Feb 12, 2024

• Discuss King Chazz

Begin Unit 5 -- 17th and 18th Centuries in Mirrors and Windows

Assign Reading over Unit 5 -- 17th and 18th Centuries -- record notes over key ideas of the time

• Read, aloud in your groups, historical background pg 470-473 in M&W (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

• 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, Feb 13, 2024

• Discuss "Song"

Assignment:: Cavalier Poems

• Read and discuss Build Background (BB) pg 477

• 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, Feb 14, 2024

• Discuss "To Althea" and "To Lucasta"

Assignment:

• Read and discuss Build Background (BB) 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, Feb 15, 2024

• 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 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 Mon by class time uploaded to Google Classroom.

• College students: Post your poems to the Stream and respond to each others by Wed.

Fri, Feb 16, 2024

• Purple Day - Student Intervention and Enrichment