Honors 12 Romanticism Guide

Today in class, we will review the Romantic Period and work to synthesize the author's beliefs and values.

I. Look at the characteristics of Romanticism below. For each, name a Romantic work we have read in class that demonstrates that principle. Explain your reasoning.

1. Nature
2. Imagination
3. Sublime
4. Emotion
5. Common People
6. Asymmetry
7. Dirtiness
8. Chaos
9. Reaction to Political Events

CP English 12 and Honors English 12 Week 17 Assignments

CP English 12:
May 25: Do not come to school today.
May 26: The Quiet American 114-134; TQA Study Guide II due (period 1)
May 27: The Quiet American 135-163; Vocabulary due; TQA Guide III and IV
May 28: Journals Due; Unit Test VI
May 29: Vocabulary Quiz

Honors English 12:
May 25: Do not come to school today.
May 26: Frankenstein Part III; Part III quiz
May 27: Post Shakespeare Review
May 28: Journals Due; Unit Test V
May 29: I will miss you today.

Honors English 12 Study Guide

Potential Identifications:

Donne
conceit
paradox
Jonson
epigram
carpe diem
Milton
epic
epic simile
Satan (Milton)
Neo-Classicism
Enlightenment
Pope
Essay on Man (Man's State)
heroic couplets
Johnson
"On Spring"
Swift
satire
sarcasm
understatement
hyperbole
Romanticism
sublime
the tyger
the lamb
The French Revolution
The Reign of Terror
poetic genius
the Devil's party
"multeity in unity"
Burns
mice
lice
dialect
Tintern Abbey
albatross
blessing snakes
Kubla Khan
"dome in air"
the West Wind
the Skylark
the song of the nightingale
the Grecian urn

CP English 12 Week 16 Assignments

May 18: Finish Romanticism Review; Vietnam Film Quiz
May 19: The Quiet American pp. 11-33; Reading Quiz; Vocabulary Due; Vietnam Webquest
May 20: TQA pp. 34-61; TQA Part I Study Guide; TQA Background Information
May 21: TQA pp. 62-87; Reading Quiz; TQA Part II Study Guide
May 22: TQA pp. 87-114; Vocab Quiz
Reading due on May 26: pp. 114-134

Honors English 12 Vocabulary Week 16

01. recourse (50)
02. minutiae (51)
03. pertinacity (61)
04. encomiums (66)
05. diffident (66)
06. dilatoriness (67)
07. acceded (68)
08. salubrious
09. environs (72)
10. endued (74)
11. indelible (75)
12. candor (77)
13. ignominious (79)
14. exculpated
15. execrated
16. adduced (80)
17. conjecture (81)
18. timorous
19. approbation (82)
20. disconsolate (104)

Frankenstein Study

is here.

Page 922 is in Chapter 1 (that begins, "I am by birth a Genevese...").

The Quiet American Novel Structure

Part One:
-- Chapter I: p. 11
-- Chapter II: p. 23
---- 1: p. 23
---- 2: p. 26
-- Chapter III: p. 33
---- 1: p. 33
---- 2: p. 39
-- Chapter 4: p. 46
---- 1: p. 46
---- 2: p. 56
-- Chapter 5: p. 62
---- 1: p. 62

Part Two:
-- Chapter 1: p. 71
-- Chapter 2: p. 83
---- 2: p. 89
---- 3: p. 93
---- 4: p. 108
-- Chapter 3: p. 115
---- 1: p. 115
---- 2: p. 121
---- 3: p. 130

Part Three:
-- Chapter 1: p. 137
---- 1: p. 137
---- 2: p. 140
---- 3: p. 146
---- 4: p. 147
---- 5: p. 150
-- Chapter 2: p. 154
---- 1: p. 154
---- 2: p. 157

Part Four:
-- Chapter 1: p. 167
-- Chapter 2: p. 172
---- 1: p. 172
---- 2: p. 174
---- 3: p. 181
-- Chapter 3: p. 187

CP English 12 Romantic Poems

Robert Burns - "To a Mouse" p. 666 and "To a Louse" p. 669
William Blake - "The Lamb" p. 680 and "The Tyger" p. 681
William Wordworth - "Tintern Abbey" p. 708 and "London, 1802" p. 718
Samuel Coleridge - "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" p. 730 and "Kubla Khan" p. 754
John Keats - "Ode to a Nightingale" p. 794 and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" p. 798

CP English 12 Romanticism Review

Today in class, we will review the Romantic Period and work to synthesize the author's beliefs and values.

I. Look at the characteristics of Romanticism below. For each, name a Romantic work we have read in class that demonstrates that principle. Explain your reasoning.

1. Nature
2. Imagination
3. Sublime
4. Emotion
5. Common People
6. Asymmetry
7. Dirtiness
8. Chaos
9. Reaction to Political Events

II. With your partner, create either a twenty-line poem or a two-three paragraph short story that demonstrates at least five of the characteristics above. Once you have completed your poem or short story, briefly explain how your work demonstrates the principles.

III. Type up parts I and II, save them as a .rtf file, and attach the file in an email to Mr. Morris.

Honors English 12 Vocabulary Week 15

Again, all words are from the Penguin Classics edition of Frankenstein.

01. predilection (38)
02. inclemency
03. chimerical
04. cursory (39)
05. avidity
06. repined
07. averred
08. preceptors
09. multifarious (40)
10. caprices
11. progeny (41)
12. prognosticated (42)
13. benignity
14. reprobated (45)
15. recapitulated (46)
16. panegyric
17. mien (47)
18. affability
19. dogmatism (49)
20. abstruse

Politics and Nature

Bartleby has the complete poetic works of Wordsworth here.

1. With your partner, browse the collection or search for particular keywords and read a few Wordsworth poems (some are very long, so feel free to pick an excerpt).

2. Find a poem where Wordsworth discusses nature to give insight into a social or political issue.

3. Together, write a brief summary describing the issue and how Wordsworth's treatment of nature illuminates his position.

4. For the second part of your written assignment, imagine you are political bloggers responding to Wordsworth's poem. Do you agree with his statements? Why or why not? Does he effectively persuade readers to his side? Write a 2-3 paragraph blog response. You can be either serious or humorous and agree or disagree.

Some sample political commentaries from across the spectrum:
Ann Coulter
Jim Hightower
Bill O'Reilly
Ted Rall
Wonkette

CP English 12 Assignments Week 15

Have all reading completed by the dates listed.

05/11: Burns/Blake study
05/12: Text pp. 706-713; 718 due; Vocabulary Homework due; Reading Quiz; Wordsworth Study
05/13: Text pp. 728-742 due; Coleridge Study
05/14: Text pp. 742-756 due; Coleridge cont.; Reading Quix
05/15: Text pp. 794-800 due; Keats study; Vocab Quiz 15

Honors English 12 Vocabulary Week 14

The following words are from the Penguin Classics edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:

01. commencement (13)
02. fervent
03. diffusing
04. satiate (14)
05. ardent
06. inestimable
07. injunction
08. effusions
09. capacious (17)
10. amend
11. dross (18)
12. capitulated (24)
13. emaciated
14. impertinent (25)
15. inquisitiveness
16. fastidious (28)
17. ameliorate (29)
18. irrevocably
19. harrowing (30)
20. indefatigable (31)

Assignments Week 14

CP English 12:

05/04: Mock Epic due; studying "On Spring" pp. 592-597
05/05: pp. 612-622; Vocab Week 14 due; reading quiz
05/06: pp.654-671; Intro to Romanticism and Robert Burns
05/07: Unit Test Five
05/08: pp. 678-682; Vocab Quiz Week 14