January 28, 2012 - February 1, 2013 A.P. English Literature

January 28, 2013 - February 1, 2013
A.P. English Literature

Monday, January 28th:
Pass out the multiple choice questions for THE DEAD.  This will be due on Tuesday, January 29th.

Read the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Read “Ode to the West Wind”.

Break into groups of three and analyze an assigned stanza for one of the following elements: theme, structure, tone, diction and imagery.  Class discussion. Mini essay: Write two body paragraphs focusing on one of the four elements.  This will be due Wednesday, January 30th.

Tuesday, January 29th:
Go over vocabulary and figurative language in THE DEAD and in the multiple choice questions to prep the class on the assignment.
Break the class into groups of three; assign each group a stanza from "Ode to the West Wind". Brief conference with each group regarding figurative language, etc.

Wednesday, January 30th:
Each group presents the assigned stanza to the class.  Discussion of Greek mythology.

Thursday, January 31st:
 Read the biography of Lord Byron.
Read and analyze “When We Two Parted”.  Write two body paragraphs focusing on theme, tone and structure.  The two body-paragraph mini-essay will be due on Thursday, January 31st.

Went over THE DEAD multiple choice
The mini essay on “Ode to the West Wind” will be due tomorrow. 

Read the biography of John Keats.
Read and analyze ‘LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI”.  Write a two body-paragraph mini-essay focusing on theme, tone, imagery and structure. This will be due on Friday, February 1st.

Friday, February 1st:
Students write in class mini two paragraph essay on "Ode to the West Wind"
Discussion of "When We Two Parted"
Assign two mini-essays, one on “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and one on"When We Two Parted"; this will be due on Monday.

LOOKING AHEAD:

For Monday, February 4th:

Review sonnets: Shakespearean Sonnets: #18, #29, #30, #71, #116, and #130
Break into groups to analyze meaning, soapstone, structure and present to class.

In class compare and contrast essay on Keats and Wordsworth.

For homework, read the packet on William Blake: the biography, “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”

 In class essay on William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweep” and John Keats and Longfellow.

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