Homework: Re-read Act 5 scene 3 to ensure that you realize how the play ends and how Lear and Gloucester die. All three sisters die and Edmund. There are references to original sin in that scene as well. Look at Lear's speeches carefully.
Choose a topic for your essay. Something that can be argued. Make it contentious--that way it will be easier to prove in a persuasive and lively manner.
Tomorrow, meet in the south computer lab. Arrive with all of your notes and your play. Your job will be to choose quotations and to start to respond to them.
Here are our deadlines:
Thurs. Feb 23: work on the quote log in the south computer lab (Aim to find and write on 4 to 5 quotes) See the handout for the criteria
Friday. Feb. 24: South computer lab to complete the quote log 9 to 12 fully explained quotes
Homework: Complete the typed quotation log (follow all the criteria.
QUOTE LOG IS DUE TUES. FEB. 28 (I can't offer any extensions). You'll see why below.
Tues. Feb. 28th: We turn the quote log into a thesis and then we write the introduction during class. Take it home. Type it up and bring it to class so I can edit it. Double space. (I will give you a sample and a clear set of criteria for the intro. An excellent intro assures and excellent essay).
Thurs. Mar. 1 HAND IN THE INTRODUCTION DOUBLE SPACED TYPED. We meet back in the computer lab where you start writing the body paragraphs. (These paragraphs are similar to the literary paragraphs which we have been writing all year. However, you need to be aware that you are proving your large essay thesis, so somewhere in the para. or in several places, you keep referring back to the original introduction)
Mon. March 5: Finish writing the body paragraphs and the conclusion.
Wed. March 7: Arrive with your first draft of the essay (double spaced, completed) We peer edit.
Take the edited essay home and revise, revise, revise.
Essay is due: Tues. March 13.
If you keep up during class, you will have very little homework to do other than study for your Renaissance test which is in SDS for March 8 but I will switch it to March 9.
Renaissance Test Review: Thurs. March 8 (Start reviewing now. Look on your core list. It starts with the sonnets "Whoso List to Hunt", Shakespeare, Donne, the Cavaliers: the pastoral and anti-pastoral, Milton, Pepys' diary, and King Lear.
Outline for the Renaissance Test:
1. 15 multiple choice
2. sight poem or passage (you read the poem and answer a question in a formal literary para. )
3. Lear passage (You are given a passage and you are asked a question. Answer the question based on the passage (but also make connections to the play as a whole. Marks awarded for your ability to write with style and infer and support those inferences with well-integrated quotations).
The sight poem could be from anywhere--Anglo-Saxon to modern or it could be a piece of prose.
Study your notes on the era: Renaissance. Study your notes on the sonnet, the pastoral, anti-pastoral, carpe diem theme, metaphysical poetry, Cavaliers, Puritans, John Milton's epic and his sonnet.
If you have been reviewing regularly, this test will be a breeze. If not, now would be a good time to create cards for each piece of literature and to create cards for all the literary terms.
Literary terms for this test will be drawn from the examples we studied:
sonnet (volta, sestet, octave, iambic pentametre, rhyme scheme) heroic couplet, Petrachran, Shakespearean,
pastoral, anti-pastoral: serene imagery, idealization,
Cavaliers: iambic tetrametre, simile, quatrains, rhyming couplets, carpe diem, paradox
Vocabulary from Paradise Lost: peridtion, penal, vnaquish, Leviathan, oracle, transgress, ehtereal, dluge, eify, extort, dubious, wrath, ignominy, ignominous, providence, apostate, guile, vanting, obdurate, sufferance, impetuous, prone
Milton: invocation, periodic sentence, similes, allusion, sonnet, pun, metonymy, synecdoche, blank verse
Donne: metaphysical conceit, free verse, sonnet, personification, apostrophe, valediction,
Pepys: authentic journal from that time period, very specific use of imagery, he's quite shallow,
