British Lit Assignments 3rd quarter

January 30- February 3

 MacBeth  Video and Video Quiz

Final make up work  due/ Quarter closes

Mechanics  Review for Research Paper  (11- 20)

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair  Essay Due. 

 February 6 – February 10

1984  Novel by George Orwell – we will be reading this book for 15 minutes each day of class throughout the quarter.

 Notes on John Donne and conceits

Textbook: John Donne  “Song” Questions 1-3 Holy Sonnet  4, 6

Questions 1-3 

Worksheets: Meditation17  Holy Sonnet 10

Notes on the Puritan Age/The Pilgram’s Progress

Worksheet: ” The Trial of the Faithful”  Contrasting Puritans and Cavaliers”

Textbook:  The Language of Paradise Lost

Notes on Milton

Worksheets:  “Paradise  Lost” pages 1-6  “Milton’s Blindness”

Written Sonnet  due 2/14

3 Research S0urces due February 27  ( 1st discussion)

Mechanics Review for Research paper 1-10

Research Paper “Avoiding Plagiarism” Video and notes

February 13 – February 17

The Research Paper: Explanation, Expectations

Handouts:  Topics, Rubrics, Checklist, Work Cited

Research Topic due : 2/10 cemented

Notes on the Sonnet (review)   Petrarchan, Wyatt, Shakespeare.                

Textbook: ( Sonnet #160 , #30)

Sonnet Worksheets:   “My Galley” Sir Thomas Wyatt

 ”Complaint by Night”  Henry Howard 

 5  Paragraph essay on the Sonnet due 2/12

 Written Sonnet Challenge due Valentine’s Day  2/14

Notes on 17th Century Literature/Tribe of Ben

Worksheets: Meeting at the Devil’s Tavern/ The Critics Eye

Textbook:  Ben Jonson ” On My First Son”  “Song to Celia”  Questions 1-3

Notes on Metaphysical Poets/ Cavalier Poets

Worksheets:  Cavalier Poetry: Herrick, Waller, Suckling

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”  “Go, Lovely Rose!”

“Song from Aglaura”

Happy Vacation!

 February 27 to March 2

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