Thursday, November 2nd
P.B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (935-936), “Song to the Men of England,” “England in 1819” (1004-1005), and excerpts from A Defence of Poetry (1015-1023)
Main Ideas: A Defence of Poetry
Literary Terms: terza rima, sonnet, ode, lyric poetry
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Tuesday, November 7th
P.B. Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (932-934)
Mary Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal” (1207-1214)
Keats, “Ode to Psyche” (1102-1103)
Thursday, November 9th
John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on Melancholy” and “To Autumn” (1103; ) and Letter to Richard Woodhouse (1147-1148) and Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (1148-1151)
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Tuesday, November 14th
Austen, Persuasion, Volume I
Literary Terms: direct discourse, indirect discourse, and free indirect discourse
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Thursday, November 16th
Austen, Persuasion, Volume II
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Tuesday, November 21st / Discussion of Essay Guidelines
Thursday, November 23rd / No School / Over Thanksgiving, you’ll need to formulate a topic for your final long essay. You’ll be given prompts to follow on eLC as you begin working on the long essay (7 pages).
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Tuesday, November 28th
John Keats, “La Dame Belle sans Merci” (1100)
Felicia Hemans, “Properzia Rossi” and “Indian Woman’s Death-Song” (1055-1056)
Literary Terms: dramatic monologue vs. dramatic lyric; see definition in Broadview Pocket Glossary of persona poem (41)
Essay Prospectus due by today
Thursday, November 30th / Last Day of class /reflection and disruption
Tara Bergin, “Appointment with Jane Austen“
Roger Reeves, “Romanticism (the Blue Keats)” with link to transcription
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Free Mulatto, and Her White Cousin, the Lady Elizabeth Murray, Great-Nieces of William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield, and Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench” and “Three Cases Decided by William Murray” (link here)
Jackie Kay, “In My Country” (Listen to audio, and then scroll down to find the poem transcribed)
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Third Semester Exam during Exam Period: Thursday, December 7th from 3:30-6:30. This exam should not take you the entire 3-hour period.
Long Essay Due by December 13th and submitted on ELC