Gifted English II: Your HW last night was an open-play quiz on Act I; today, we transition to Act II. I have some questions you will need to answer for this part of the play, which is largely expository and not as action-oriented as the other acts. We are going to work through part of this today in class--your HW is to finish the questions.
AP Lit and Comp: We need to finish the analysis of "Preludes" and transition into Romanticism. Reminder: Please go by the Media Center to pick up a copy of Frankenstein. We will be working through the epistolary part of the novel (the first four chapters) together this week, while preparing for the semester exam/essay portion.
I will be giving you each an outline for note-taking purposes, but here is the essence of what you can expect for those of you super-organized types:
Romanticism Notes: APeees
People to Know
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Shelley
John Keats
William Blake
George Gordon, Lord Byron
John Constable
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mary Shelley
Concepts to Know
mutability
the quest for immortality
nature imagery
the paradox
spirituality
connections: landscape to sky; art to immortality
lyric poetry
the Gothic novel
romanticism and revolution
Specific Works for Reference
“The World is Too Much With Us”
“Tintern Abbey”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“Kubla Khan”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“When I Have Fears”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
“Ozymandias”
“Ode to the West Wind”
The Gothic Novel
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Byronic Hero
