Multiple Choice and More Frankness

Today we started our look at the multiple choice section of the final with some group work. We will share that work in class tomorrow. We also talked a bit more about symbol, motif, and style in Frankenstein.

PC Review & More Frank-ness

Today we wrapped up our examination of the final exam timed writing by turning our focus on the students' own essays. For the rest of the period we discussed Frankenstein (see the slide below).

Monday and Tuesday

Aside from a warm-up on and discussion of how Frankenstein fits in the Romantic Period, these two days have been spent looking at the essay prompt from the final exam.
Essay #2 Due Dates:

• Topics Posted to Moodle (with topic poll) 2/1
• Topic Responses at Moodle 2/4
• Complete Roughs in class with a cover sheet 2/12

Period 4: Remaining Poems

Thursday

• "Addressed to a Young Man..." Coleridge (You'll have to scroll down a bit.)
• "Bright Star" Keats

Friday

• "Bright Be the Place of Thy Soul" Byron (It's quite far down the page.)
• "To the Moon" Smith

Monday

• "A Red, Red Rose" Burns
• "A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk" Landon

Period 3: Remaining Poems

Thursday

• "Winter" Southey
• "The Sick Rose" Blake

Friday

• "She Walks in Beauty" Byron
• "The Bitter Cup" White

Tuesday

• "Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melanchol" Coleridge (You'll have to scroll down a bit.)
• "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Wordsworth

Wednesday's Poems

Today's mid-class warm-up:

Tomorrow's Poems:
Period 3

• "Bright Star" Keats
• "Hope" Smith

Period 4

• "The Chimney Sweeper" Blake
• "Sonnet 3" Baillie

Presentations Tomorrow

The poems and poetry HW are listed below. All of the poems should be easy to find. Just Google them. Here are the first two:

Period 3

• "The Moon" Shelley
• "A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk" Landon

Period 4

• "A Sketch" by Wordsworth
• "To Wordsworth" by Shelley

  I'll post the rest if I have time.

New Moodle Link

Here is the new Moodle link, as promised. 

http://moodle.hcoe.net/

Those of you who are still having trouble, let me know and we can have them reset it manually.

See you tomorrow.

Mr. Staiano

Thursday & Friday

Work Time for the Poetry Project

Work Time

Today students had essentially the entire period to find poems and begin their individual poetry analyses.

Papers and Poetry

Today we discussed essays, which were returned, and students did the reflective activity below. We also started the next poetry project.

An Introduction to the Romantic Movement

Today we spent the period talking about the Romantic Movement (notes are at Moodle and due dates are below.)