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Hon./American Lit. & Comp. A. P. Language & Composition British Lit. & Composition Completely Random but Really Interesting
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BRIT. LIT. ASSIGNMENT LISTINGS 2008-09 If you have 1st hour Brit Lit, enter 2435417 If you have 2nd hour Brit Lit, enter 2435418 If you have 3rd hour Brit Lit, enter 2435419 The enrollment password: SOUTH
11/5- Hamlet Imagery in Hamlet assignment, due Monday. 1) Select a rich, powerful line from the play (no more than 20 words). 2) Create a word web, interconnecting ideas and images that that the words in the line evoke. 3) Using the word web you created, create a poem that relays an important theme/idea from the play.
11/6- Hamlet
11/7- Don't forget your image word web and poem. Instructions and sample word web available here: http://www.folger.edu/eduLesPlanDtl.cfm?lpid=643 Read Bevington critique at end of play text (pg. 297 and following).
11/10 (Mon)- word web and poem due. Bevington Reading Check.
Hamlet parodies and popular culture. Simpsons parody: http://paoloesquivel.multiply.com/video/item/4
11/11- Hamlet test hwk: Read background on the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (pgs. 263-264), and Donne's Holy Sonnet 6 (pg. 269).
11/12- Discuss Bevington's essay and submit Hamlet texts. The Metaphysical poets and Holy Sonnet 6. Hwk: TP-CASTT of "Virtue" (273).
11/13- In-class discussion of techniques, shifts, and themes in "Virtue" (annotation using overhead). Interpretation of Herrick's "To the Virgins . . ." Hwk: Read and put into your own words the KJV rendering of I Corinthians 13 (in your textbook).
11/14- Introduction to satire and Swift. Hwk: Take notes over the Restoration and the 18th century (327-347) and Swift (372-373). We will have an open note quiz on Monday.
11/17- Gulliver's Travels copies are distributed. Open note reading check--you may work with a partner on this. Hwk: Read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (382 and following) for tomorrow.
11/18- "A Modest Proposal" study questions due tomorrow (handout). Hwk: Read pgs. 21-38 of _Gulliver's Travels_ (Chapters 1 & 2 of part 1)
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