Assignment: Reading Longfellow Date:Tue, Nov 27, 2007
A selection of Longfellow’s poetry
Assignment: Reading Longfellow 2 Date:Fri, Nov 16, 2007
Student presentation of Longfellow poems
Assignment: Reading Longfellow 1 Date:Thu, Nov 15, 2007
Student presentation of Longfellow poems
Assignment: Prepare presentation on Longfellow poem Date:Wed, Nov 14, 2007
Prepare a presentation on one Longfellow poem.
1. Read the poem aloud.
2. Analyze the poem. You may focus on the poem’s religious meaning, its patriotic (nation-building) meaning, how meter and sound relates to meaning, or how the poem either fits or does not fit the “romantic” ideal.
3. Re-read the poem aloud.
Assignment: Reading Longfellow Date:Tue, Nov 13, 2007
English 11We will use Longfellow as representative of the literary period from the American Revolution to the transcendentalists (circa 1840).
Read “A Psalm of Life” and discuss it in terms of (a) traditional form (b) religious orthodoxy and (c) patriotic mythmaking.
We will use these 15 poems. This is a printer-friendly copy of the poem.
To read the poems with notes online, you can also go here for a list of links to individual poems.
For tomorrow: read the Longfellow poems on line, select one you will teach to the rest of the class. Copy and print that one poem and bring it with you to class tomorrow.
Assignment: Writing an essay analyzing a work of literature Date:Mon, Nov 12, 2007
English 11Write an essay analyzing one of the works we read from the American Romanticism period.
Assignment: Test: American Romanticism Date:Fri, Nov 09, 2007
English 11You will be asked to read a poem we have not studied in class, and then to apply what you know about using context clues, drawing inferences, and analyzing setting.
Assignment: Test over “Thanatopsis Date:Fri, Nov 09, 2007
English 11Orally answer questions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on page 174. Discuss onomatopoeia and personification.
Test over “Thanatopsis”
For tomorrow: Read Washington Irving
Assignment: Open Note Test: American Romanticism Date:Thu, Nov 08, 2007
English 11In class: Read aloud “Analyzing a literary work” p. 198-200. The final assessment at the end of the Romanticism unit will be an essay analyzing one of the works you have read.
Test over pages 138-150
For tomorrow: read Washington Irving (Rip Van Winkle) p. 152-166
Assignment: Begin American Romanticism (1800-1860) Date:Wed, Nov 07, 2007
Slide show on romanticism
Show video: The American Journey Tape A, Segment 4, Running Time: 4:42
Hand in worksheet at end of video.For tomorrow, read p. 137-150
Open note test tomorrow.
Assignment: Intro to Poetry Date:Tue, Nov 06, 2007
English 11Read in class an assortment of poems
Assignment: View 1776 Date:Mon, Nov 05, 2007
Begin viewing the video 1776.
I will read and comment on first draft of essays Monday and Tuesday. I will not copy edit--but only make substantive comments. Final version must be posted Thursday by 9:00 pm.
Assignment: Poetry meters Date:Mon, Nov 05, 2007
English 11Orally answer “Shaping Interpretations” questions on p. 179, for both Longfellow poems.
Lecture: Poetry Meters
You should know:
iamb
trochee
dactyl
anapestmonometer
dimeter
trimeter
tetrameter
pentametersonnet
quatrain
couplet
“turn”
rhyme scheme
Assignment: Revise final drafts Date:Fri, Nov 02, 2007
English 11Comment on 3 other student essays on Mosaic website.
For each of your peers’ essays that you read, comment on all three of these questions.
1. Does the essay have one theme? Could you summarize what it is about in a single sentence?
2. Does the essay use anecdotes from the writer’s own life to show what he or she is like?
3. Does the essay draw on the readings to make points clear? Does it demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the readings?
Assignment: Using Mosaic Date:Thu, Nov 01, 2007
Finish Desperate Crossing
In class:
1. How to log on to Mosaic
2. Select proper category
3. Select proper status
4. Use “submit"to save document
5. Awareness of “writing help” links