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BRIT. LIT. ASSIGNMENT LISTINGS 2008-09 

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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)