1/19/21
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Class website introduction www.wittwerj.wixsite.com/malvern
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Syllabus and course review.
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Join Classroom: buh3a5v
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Distribute textbooks
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Group brainstorm - What does it mean when something is called Romantic?
Homework: None
1/20/21 - 1/21/22
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Review your selected poem with the class, sharing how it demonstrates Romantic characteristics.
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You and a partner will be assigned one of the following poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats. You must create a presentation that includes the below information. You will present Friday.
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A brief biography, in your own words (with citations), of your poet.
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2 poems written by your poet.
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A summary of each poem using the TPCASTT strategy. This should be in your own words and come from your own reading, not research.
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An analysis of how each poem represents the Romantic period (using the Romanticism characteristics chart).
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Your favorite element of your author's poetry.
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Your least favorite element of your author's poetry.
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Homework: Work on your presentation.
1/22/21
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Poetry Presentations
Homework: None
1/25/21 - 1/29/21
Monday - Wednesday
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Read Thomas Paine's: "From Rights of Man" (209-213) and annotate for Romantic characteristics.
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Read Mary Wollstonecraft's: "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" (221-242) and annotate for Romantic characteristics.
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If you need more review of the period, read purple book pages 3—27.
Thursday:
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Romanticism Seminar over the above readings
Friday:
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Romanticism Quiz
2/1/21 - 2/19/21
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Read Frankenstein
Homework: None
2/22/21 - 2/26/21
Make sure your Frankenstein essays have been submitted. We are moving on to the next Literary Movement, The Victorian Age.
Monday
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Read Intro to The Victorian Age, 1830--1901 (Pink Book pgs. 3-28) and take notes. We will discuss what you learn tomorrow.
Tuesday - Thursday
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Discuss Victorian Characteristics
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Read Thomas Carlyle: Intro (30-34)
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Read and take notes on "Past and Present: Democracy" (53-58)
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Read and take notes on Darwin "The Descent of Man" (615-619)
Friday
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Discuss readings and what they suggest about this time period and how it impacted literature.
3/1/21 - 3/5/21
Monday
Read John Stuart Mill: Intro., "The Subjection of Women" (90-101)
Tuesday/Wednesday
Poetry Jigsaw: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (142), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (109), Robert Browning (321), Emily Bronte (374), Matthew Arnold (415), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (517), Christina Rossetti (535) or Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (939) ***Savanha: You may pick one
Thursday
Learn about Aestheticism by reading William Pater's "Studies in the History of the Renaissance" (584-589)
Friday
Seminar - What else do we learn about the Victorian Age/Literary Movement through these texts? What is Aestheticism? How does Aestheticism relate to the Victorian Literary Movement?
Poetry Jigsaw
Create a presentation including:
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A brief biography, in your own words (with citations), of your poet.
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2 poems written by your poet.
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A summary of each poem using the TPCASTT strategy. This should be in your own words and come from your own reading, not research.
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An analysis of how each poem represents the Victorian period (using our discussions on characteristics during this time).
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Your favorite element of your author's poetry.
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Your least favorite element of your author's poetry.
3/8/21 - 3/12/21
Monday & Tuesday
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John Ruskin: Intro (381-384); From Modern Painters: “A Definition of Greatness in Art”
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(384-386)
Wednesday
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Discuss Ruskin and read and analyze “My Last Duchess” Browning (328)
Thursday & Friday
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Watch Oscar Wilde biographical video
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Read about Oscar Wilde (810-811)
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Begin the The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3/15/21 - 3/19/21
Monday
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Seminars over reading or chapter analyses
Tuesday
Wednesday
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Seminars over reading or chapter analyses
Thursday
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Read The Picture of Dorian Gray (chapter 5 and 6 before Monday
Friday
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No School for students
3/22/21 - 3/26/21
Monday
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Seminars over reading or chapter analyses
Tuesday
Wednesday
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Seminars over reading or chapter analyses
Thursday
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Read The Picture of Dorian Gray (chapter 10)
Friday
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Finish The Picture of Dorian Gray
4/5/21 - 4/9/21
Monday - Tuesday
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Critical Analysis Essay 2 (Dorian Gray) due before class Wednesday
Wednesday
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Intro to The Twentieth Century and After Volume F (3-31)
Thursday
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William Butler Yeats: “The Second Coming” (227)
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Virginia Woolf: “Three Guineas” (836-840)
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Poetry Jigsaw: Eliot, Heaney, Owens, Thomas, Auden, Hardy
Friday
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Poetry Jigsaw Presentations
Poetry Jigsaw
Create a presentation including:
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A brief biography, in your own words (with citations), of your poet.
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2 poems written by your poet.
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A summary of each poem using the TPCASTT strategy. This should be in your own words and come from your own reading, not research.
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An analysis of how each poem represents the Victorian period (using our discussions on characteristics during this time).
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Your favorite element of your author's poetry.
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Your least favorite element of your author's poetry.
4/12/21 - 4/16/21
Monday
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Jigsaw presentations and Modernism review.
Tuesday
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Read Orwell's Politics of the English Language. Make sure you can answer the questions in the margins (you may choose to right your answers down) and pay particular attention to the highlighted excerpts.
Wednesday
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Seminar over Orwell
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Read Brave New World Chapter 1
Thursday
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Read Brave New World Chapter 2
Friday
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Read Brave New World Chapters 3 and 4
4/19/21 - 4/23/21
Monday
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Read Brave New World Chapters 5 and 6.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
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Read Brave New World Chapters 12 and 13.
Friday
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Read Brave New World Chapters 14 and 15.
4/26/21 - 4/30/21
Monday
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Finish the book.
Tuesday
Wednesday
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Pick author(s) and work(s) for Literary Research Paper (Final paper due 5/14)
Thursday - Friday
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Read and annotate works
5/3/21 - 5/8/21
Annotate works and complete research for Literary Research Paper
5/10/21 - 5/14/21
Write your Literary Research Paper due 5/14. Submit it here.