March 19, 2018 - March 23, 2018 Weekly Agenda

Monday, March 19th: 

Go over “A London’s Summer Morning”

Tuesday, March 20th: 
Rewrite of "A London's Summer Morning"

For homework:
Frankenstein; Chapter 6; pages 53 - 58
Please do one reading log per chapter; do a brief summary; character analysis; thematic analysis; Romantic Era motifs, figurative language
For figurative language, write the entire quotation; identify the trope, what is compared to what, and what is revealed by the comparison. If it is imagery, then explain how it fits into the Romantic Era motifs. 
Please submit to schoology by Wednesday, March 21st.  
Wednesday, March 21st: 
Assign Vocabulary Unit 5
#1 - 10
Go over handout on "Adjective Clause"
Brief film clip on John Keats
Analysis of "Bright Star"

For Homework: 
Frankenstein; Chapter 7; pages 59 - 65
Please do one reading log per chapter; do a brief summary; character analysis; thematic analysis; Romantic Era motifs, figurative language.
For figurative language, write the entire quotation; identify the trope, what is compared to what, and what is revealed by the comparison. If it is imagery, then explain how it fits into the Romantic Era motifs. Please submit to schoology

Thursday, March 22nd: 
 Read the two poems by William Blake - The Chimney Sweeper (1789) and The Chimney Sweeper (1794).

Analyze the two poems and annotate them. Discussion.

Read two poems by William Blake
What did you notice in the poem?
Snow and woe
Snow and woe
His father sold him when he was too young to say “sweep”
Irony  - weep and sweep
White is the color of purity – Tom’s white hair
Coffins in black is symbolic of chimneys
An angel with a key set them free
They went to heaven – clean and green and a river and it shines in the sun

Now analyze and contrast the second poem written in 1794 with the first poem written in 1879. Is there a difference in tone between the two poems? What contributes to the difference in tone of the two poems. 

 Frankenstein; Chapter 8; pages 67 - 76
Please do one reading log per chapter; do a brief summary; character analysis; thematic analysis; Romantic Era motifs, figurative language
For figurative language, write the entire quotation; identify the trope, what is compared to what, and what is revealed by the comparison. If it is imagery, then explain how it fits into the Romantic Era motifs.
Please submit to schoology

 Friday, March 23rd: 
Assign reading for Frankenstein during the spring break 
Please do one reading log per chapter; do a brief summary; character analysis; thematic analysis; Romantic Era motifs, figurative language
For figurative language, write the entire quotation; identify the trope, what is compared to what, and what is revealed by the comparison. If it is imagery, then explain how it fits into the Romantic Era motifs. 
Frankenstein; Chapter 9; pages 74 - 79
Please submit to schoology


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