The Beast Test Prep

The links below cover everything on "The Beast" which takes place this Monday. It really is a game of memorizing all the terms, various poetic forms (sonnets, haikus, terza rima, etc), to the period in which a work was written.


Poetic Forms

Poetic Periods

Poetry Terminology


For tea party:

• Boys bring beverages
• Girls bring cookies/pastries/crumpets (or should Ms. Johnson reverse that?)

Suggestions please! 

Have a great weekend! Study hard; play later:)

Ms. Johnson

Victorian Readings

Click below for Victorian/Modern Readings Link:

Readings Link

Poetry Party Tuesday! 

***Glossary due Monday with "The Beast"

**Original Poem and Analysis paragraph due Tuesday

We are winding down to the of poetry:(

Ms. Johnson

10/21/2013

Monday Homework:

Please take notes on the Power Point link below:
Victorian to Modern Period PP

Ms. Johnson

Cool William Blake article; check it out! (Addresses how Blakean concepts prevail today)

http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v3_2/whitson/

A quote from the article: "Blakean text denies the idealist foundations upon which most literary criticism depends, and comes to rest, instead, in the realm of global capitalism and its celebrity fantasies."

10/18/2013

Today in class,

We finished the in-class poetry essay. If you haven't started it yet, or need to finish, please see me ASAP to set up a time to do so.

• Identify your favorite Romantic Era poem from the reading
• Work on second half of Poetry Glossary
• Work on "Original Poem" and analysis

Ms. Johnson

P.S. See older post for Romanticism reading assignment if you are confused.

Have a restful weekend!

10/17/2013

Homework:

Assignments to be working on:

• Second half of "Poetry Glossary"
• Study for "The Beast"
• Write Original Poem and Analysis--which is a paragraph explaining why you wrote the poem and how the devices you selected connect to the overall theme of your poem.
• Prepare for Poetry Party: Tea? Crumpets? May invite parents...

Ms. Johnson

10/17/2013

Here is the Romanticism Power Point link in case you haven't been here each day (three not full class days now) to get all of the notes: Romanticism PP


Also, things you could be working on:

• Second half of Poetry Glossary to prepare for "The Beast"
• Original Poem and analysis (analysis=thorough paragraph explaining what the poem means to you personally and how the devices you employed connect to the meaning of your poem).

FYI: Tomorrow, you will be given a writing prompt and a poem to write a five paragraph analysis paper on....

Mrs. Johnson

Romanticism Readings

I will lecture on Romanticism Tuesday, but you can start reading the poems in your anthology over the weekend. Additionally, work on your original poem this weekend. You need to include a paragraph analysis of your poem where you objectively and analytically examine three literary devices and their connection to meaning in your poem. Language such as "the writer used personification to glorify the meaning of autumn in the poem" is appropriate. No first person "I used this device" etc.

Romanticism Readings/may or may not be in both texts, you can then read them online:

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: “Nature and Art”

William Blake Poems:

v  “The Clod & the Pebble

v  “The Lamb”

v  “The Tyger”

v  “The Garden of Love”

Robert Burns: “A Red, Red Rose”

William Wordsworth: “The world is too much with us”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Kubla Khan”

George Gordon, Lord Byron: “She Walks in Beauty”

Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”

John Keats:

v  “When I have fears”

v  “Ode to a Nightingale”

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Concord Hymn”

Edgar Allan Poe: “To Helen”

Alfred Lord Tennyson:

v  “Ulysses”

v  “from In Memoriam A.H.H.”

Enjoy your extended weekend!

Johnson

10/08/2013

Neoclassical Period here is the Power Point! I guess the link doesn't work on the other page, so here ya go!

Johnson

P.S. Prospectus 4-6 due Thursday--this time you are including body paragraphs not intros!

10/07/2013

Weekly Checklist:

• By Wednesday, come to class with a completed set of  Neoclassical Lecture Notes. You will find this Power Point under my "Power Point by Lecture" at the top of the tab bar. Go down and find the "Neoclassical Period" Power Point link. 
• By Wednesday, come to class having read all the assigned Neoclassical poems.
• By Thursday, turn in Prospectus 4-6.
• Over the weekend, read the assigned Romanticism poems.

Mrs. Johnson

10/01/2013

Click on the link below to get your Renaissance Readings schedule.
Also, today in class I lectured on the Renaissance Time Period. You can find that lecture under the tab called  "Power Points by Lecture" on my webpage and take notes on it. You'll need to know the concepts for THE BEAST EXAM.


Homework:

Renaissance Readings Schedule

Revise Poetry Essay for Friday due date

Have a good one!

Ms. J