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