HW for Thursday 2/25

Read the bio/background information on Wordsworth (pp734-35) and "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (pp 736-741)

HW for Thursday 2/10

Read all of the material on Blake, as well as "The Tyger" and "The Lamb," pp 718-723, and answer questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 12 on p 724.

HW for Tuesday 2/9

Read the introductory essay to the Romantic Period on pp 706-717.

Week 23 Itinerary

Class-time this week will be devoted to the film Mona Lisa smile, concluding with a Paideia seminar on Friday in the conference room.

Outside of class, you need read the remaining selections in Reflecting on the Literary Period, pp 651-681. I will collect answers to questions 1-5 on p. 682 next Monday 2/8.

HW for Thursday 1/28

Read the selections from Gulliver's Travels in our text (pp 652-662). As you read, identify and define in context at least 10 unfamiliar words.

Comparing Points of View: Women's Rights

This mini-unit covers the material on pp 643-650 in our textbook. You will have time in class to work on it today and tomorrow (Thursday 1/21 and Friday 1/22). On Monday we will discuss all three readings and any problems you may have answering questions 1-6 on p. 650.

On Tuesday I will collect CLEAN copies (preferably typed) of the following:

1. Your answer to the "Quickwrite" prompt on p. 634.
2. Your answers to question 1-6 on p. 650.

As the final assignment for this unit, you will write an in-class essay on Tuesday in response to the Defining a Philosophy prompt on p. 650.

Pope Itinerary

Thursday 1/14 - Pope bio., Heroic Couplets, and Essay on Man (pp 597-601)
HW: finish MC questions and SA question

Friday 1/15 - The Rape of the Lock. Read p. 603 and do the Quickwrite assignment on a sheet of notebook paper. Discuss responses, then take turns reading The Rape of the Lock aloud.
HW: Answer questions 1, 3, 6, and 7 on p. 612.

Revision of essay on Swfit and Boyle is due on Wednesday 1/20.