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