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Greeblatt, Stephens, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2. 10^th edition. New York, Norton, 2012.

(You may have Volume D, E, and F instead marked as The Romantic Period, The Victorian Age, The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries)

Romanticism Era Music: Fantasie Impromptu Op. 66 by Fryderyk Chopin: https://youtu.be/Gy5UHK4EeM8 (Orchestral music becomes more emotional and subjective like poetry. Composers inspired by romantic love, the supernatural and even dark themes such as death, drawing inspiration from history and folk songs. Piano still main instrument but orchestra instruments expanded.)

1 - Must be original work. (spoken word, dance, poetry, scenes, improv, music...anything, as long as you created it)

Lord Byron: “She Walks in Beauty” pg 613 & “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” (found in PowerPoint or online) & “When We Two Parted”

Get started on homework in groups [we will use Lord Byron “When We Two Parted” (love poem not in book) since some people dont have book yet to discuss & begin One Sentence Assignment]

Hmwk: One sentence Assignment (2 at the most!): Pick a poem not on the syllabus but in the textbook and write about it in one sentence. For example, “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem about a very imaginative and dream-like adventure that has become one of the most famous poems in the 19^th Century.” Or it can be about how you feel after reading the poem like “Coleridge’s poem, “Kublah Khan” seemed unusual and dream-like but it felt like a place I wanted to visit with it’s focus on beautiful images of nature.”

Suggestions (you can choose another): Anna Letitia Barbauld “The Caterpillar” pg 53 or “Washing Day” pg 51, Mary Robinson “The Haunted Beach” pg 85, Robert Burns “A Red, Red Rose” pg 191, Lord Byron “When We Two Parted” (love poem not in book)

Creative Visuals on Blake’s “Tygre” (Did they get the fire image right or wrong?):

Review "What is a Poet" by Wordsworth pg 310-314 (Can compare this to John Stuart Mill's "What is Poetry?" pg 74-81 from Victorian book)

Hmwk: Pick one writer and create Word Cloud. Focus on their life. You can find all the information you need at the beginning section of each poet. For example, William Blake can be found on pages 122-125. However, try a writer we have not gone over yet like all the wonderful female writers! Look in Table of Contents! You will need to turn in Word Cloud either by printing it or emailing it and don’t forget to turn in a list of the facts/information/quotes/famous works you discovered. Min 10 things about the writer that you included in the Word Cloud. These two things will be due next class! (If you never used this software before. Try clicking WIZARD on right side of the bars. One feature I find helpful is to use the SHAPE button to create your shape once you have your word cloud created, so do that last! Play around with the THEME & COLORS & FONT button to get it just right! BIG HINT: Click WORD LIST then PASTE/TYPE TEXT before trying to make a word list or before copying and pasting!

Suggestions for writers: Keats, Shelley (either one), Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Mary Robinson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charlotte Smith, Robert Burns, Lord Byron (You may want to choose the same writer you will be using for your Response Paper!!!)

W 9-4 (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 9 min: Read pages 441-444, 464-466, 482-484, and 514-515 on gothic poetry)

Romantic Era Music: Franz Joseph Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies (He is well known for many things, including his ability to transcribe major orchestral works for piano and make them widely popular, the invention of the symphonic poem (using a symphony to tell a story, describe a landscape, or represent any non-musical idea), and progressing thematic transformation (essentially, the evolution of a theme by means of variation). Liszt was known for his passionate performances which included dramatic gestures, intense facial expressions and adding his own style to pieces. His improvisation and emotional performances made him a true musician of the Romantic period.)

Response Prewrite (This is optional but research shows those who do prewriting activities always do letter grades above those who dont!) & you may want to watch as review: Really good 1 hour BBC video (may watch first 10 min in class if time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwRXlSgiSQ

Romantic Era Music by Women: Clara Wieck Schumann (Trio in G Minor Op. 17) & Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Easter Sonata, she often published under brother's name Felix Mendelssohn)

(2) response #1 and rubric -- Submit it to either D2L or Turnitin.com (Class ID 22025419, passcode key 2122D)

W 9-11 (Victorian Era, Introduction pg 3-16 & John Stuart Mill's "What is Poetry?" pg 74-81 & can compare this to "What is a Poet" by Wordsworth pg 310-314 from Romantic book)

Activity: Rotate with every student getting one line from William Wordsworth “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (pg 345) - How might the next generation (the Victorians) react to this?

Show a few minutes: Unbelievable Ways Victorians Caused their own Deaths in the Name of Progress: arsenic (toys, green wallpapers), toxins in beauty products, corsets (breathing problems, crushed organs, caused infections), gas lighting (cant smell leaks until folks dropped dead), toys made out of lead (affects the brain, ADD, hyperactivity) and 7 Very Victorian Ways to Die

excerpts from The Princess (a feminist narrative poem, pg 169-170): "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" 2 min & "Tears, Idle Tears" 2 min (The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's hand. They lose and are wounded, but the women nurse the men back to health. Eventually the princess returns the prince's love.) If you are brave, here is an excerpt of actress singing Tennyson in Vanity Fair movie!

Hmwk: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pages 109-110, 116 “Sonnets from the Portuguese #43”) and if did not do last time: Tennyson intro (pages 142 – 145, biography video 6 min)

Poem that helped change perspective and conditions, Poor Law Act of 1834 (believed it would reduce cost of caring for poor, take beggars from streets, but not exactly): "The Cry of the Children" pg 110-114 (play both at the same time - this for audio: & the 1912 Silent Film by Thanhouser Film Corporation 5:45 to 7:45 min & 20:00 to 25:00 min OR this for visual - STANZA SIX) - also see "First Report of the Commissioners, Mines" on page 634-635

"A Dead Rose" (3 min, notice the changes from Burns and Blake with the image of the rose)

Hmwk: Charles Dickens (pg 261-263) & A Christmas Carol (pg 264-274 - end after first stave)

Hmwk: A Christmas Carol (pg 315-320 read stave five and choose either stave two or stave three or stave four-- be prepared to discuss your stave choice)

Hmwk: The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle (pg 920-921 & 921-938), and you must also go to Signup.com and pick one of the topic choices! Remember you can partner up for the creative visual portion but only one person needs to go to Signup.com to do so! (The written Response Portion should still be done individually!)

Thursday September 26 – 6:30 PM Gordon Recital Series – Ashu – Saxophone

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Hmwk: work on creative video project (make sure you get your partner's email and text number if you have a partner!) and if not done so then go to Signup.com to pick one of the remaining topic choices!

This is the Romantics and the Victorians (not including Doyle, Houseman, or Fields)

Victorian PowerPoint (Slide #24-35, feminism, "the Woman Question", "Angel in the House")

M 10-7

Computer Lab: Room IC 108

Work in Class on Creative Video Project and Rubric and check SignUp Day (available after 9-25's after class!!)

(bring USB or mail saved work to yourself – do not save on school computer!) *Good time to get opinions from other students and me on your Creative Media Project*

Hmwk: complete work on Creative Video Project (Rubric and if need to check SignUp Day)

W 10-9 (A. E. Housman -- Modern & Michael Field -- Victorian)

20^th Century PowerPoint (Slides #1-11)

From A Shophire Lad ("Blue Remembered Hills") - Peter Hitchens video (2 min) Poem 2

A.E. Housman: "To an Athlete Dying Young" Poem 1

Two videos: 2 min. Tribute to Paul Walker (Fast & Furious star)

Rob Scotlan Video of Housman’s famous poem (5 min)

Brendan Toohey Video of Housman's famous poem (5 min)

Michael Field (2 min) is pseudonym of two women (Katharine Bradley & Edith Cooper, pages 761-763) & Alexis Coe's "The Forgotten Scandalous Lesbian Writing Duo": "A Summer Wind" & "Nests in Elms"

HMWK: **All Papers and Visuals DUE** next class

OCT 10 Last Day to WITHDRAW

M 10-14 **All Papers and Visuals DUE**

We will begin with a warm up to practice the quiz on with:

A. E. Housman's "When I was One and Twenty" (1 min, created by Motivation Maniac)

PowerPoint Slides #12-16

Quiz #11 & #12 on other students Creative Video Project

Viewing of your Creative Media Projects (you must be here for both days even if you go today!)

Hmwk: none, unless you have not yet presented than bring your presentation to class prepared to present!

W 10-16 (last day for projects)

Quiz #13 & #14 on other students Creative Video Project

Viewing of your Creative Media Projects (you must be here for both days even if you go today!)

Hmwk: study for Midterm a week from today (if needed review Romanticism)

study (yes, study!) for Midterm on next Monday

Romanticism Review: Introduction (pages 3-22), Lord Byron (pages 608-611, 613, & "When We Two Parted"), William Blake (pages 122-125, 138, 139-140), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pages 441-444, 464-466, 482-484), Gothic Poetry (pages 514-515), William Wordsworth (pages 280-282, 310-314, 316, 318, 345-346): Documentary Review of Romanticism (1 hour)

Victorian Review: (pages 3-16, Alfred Lord Tennyson (pages 142-145, 245, "The Charge of the Light Brigade", pages 169-170), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pages pg 109-110, "The Cry of the Children" pg 110-114, "Sonnet from the Portuguese #43" pg 116), Charles Dickens (pg 261-263, A Christmas Carol pg 264-320), The Woman Question (pg 653-655)

Don’t forget you have 2 PowerPoints, a Kahoot, and a Study Guide (see above paragraphs)!

M 10-21 (Florence Nightingale & Emily Bronte)

Bronte poems: "Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee", "Love and Friendship", and "I'm Happiest When Most Away"

Questions attached

Hmwk: study for Midterm (if needed review Romanticism)

study (yes, study!) for Midterm on next Monday

Don’t forget you have 2 PowerPoints, a Kahoot, and a Study Guide (see above paragraphs)!

"women's Canteen at Phoenix Works" by Flora Lion"Merry-Go-Round" by Mark Gertler

W 10-23 MIDTERM TEST

Hmwk: bring phone/computer, pen and paper

"women's Canteen at Phoenix Works" by Flora Lion"Merry-Go-Round" by Mark Gertler

M 10-28 (WWI Poets)

Almost no musical work has had such a powerful influence or evoked as much controversy as Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring” (2 min from Fantasia). The work's premiere on May 29, 1913, at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, was scandalous. There were riots! In addition to the outrageous costumes, unusual choreography and bizarre story of pagan sacrifice, Stravinsky's musical innovations upset the audience. Modernism had arrived.

review WW1 Poets PowerPoint Slides #21-40 (skip slides about poets until after jigsaw activity)

More people died from the Spanish Influenza epidemic kills millions worldwide. It is estimated that ten times as many people died of the flu than were killed in WWI. In fact, half of U.S. soldiers who perished in Europe died of the flu.

Quiz #15 based on the following in class activity:

In class Jigsaw activity: Get in groups and discuss the author’s life and the assigned poem. Look up any necessary information on your phone/computer. Take notes! The note portion counts as a quiz grade and will be turned in, even if every member has the same information written down. Look at what the poem means, theme, metaphors, similes, and imagery. Look at the author's life. Each member must turn in their own paper. You will have 20 minutes! Please do not let one person do all the work as this could result in other members getting a zero even if they turn a completed activity in. IMPORTANT: When done, you will be assigned to a new group and as an expert on your assigned poem you will have to “report” to the new group on what you know! This is done so that you can learn about the 4 major poets from WW1 and these 6 poems but really only doing the work to learn about 1 - killing six birds with one stone!

Group 1: Rupert Brooke (pg 139 “The Solider” but sometimes called "1914: the Solider")

Group 2: Siegfried Sassoon (pg 148-149 “The Rear-Guard”)

Group 3: Siegfried Sassoon (pg 148-149 "Counter-Attack")

Group 4: Isaac Rosenberg (pg 155-157 “Break of Day in the Trenches”)

Group 5: Wilfred Owen (pg 161 & 164 “Dulce Et Decorum Est”)

Group 6: Wilfred Owen "Anthem for a Doomed Youth"

If time, Myths about WW1 (10 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvcfH_xYUs

Hmwk: Yeats pg 209 – 212 and take this take home test (bring questions and answers to next class)

W 10-30 (William Butler Yeats)

finish WW1 Group Jigsaw activity from last class if not completed

Take Home TEST #1 Due

William Butler Yeats (5min reading of "When You are Old"

Finish WW1 Propaganda PowerPoint Slide #40-49 & P.E.E. for organizing response papers: PowerPoint Slide #50-57

Yeats PowerPoint Slides #58-65

The 5 Yeats' poems:

“When You Are Old” (page 216), watch this 15 minute video about “When You Are Old”,
“Who Goes With Fergus” (page 216), and "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
“An Irish Airman Foresees his Death” (page 226),
“A Prayer for my Daughter” (page 227-229) with this 4 min creative media project video

Hmwk: read "Araby" by James Joyce and complete Take Home TEST #2 (bring questions and answers to next class)

optional documentary No Country for Old Men (not the movie or book) about his end days

M 11-4 (James Joyce, 13 minute boring bio, stop at 7 min)

finish Yeats "The Isle of Innisfree" (his first great poem, a nod to the Romantics, notice the lulling rhythm?) and watch first 6 minutes of The Passion of Yeats

Take Home TEST #2 due

PowerPoint #77-78

Is this a trailer or the entire movie?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3pUH1MfC9I

Read aloud & discuss: “Araby” pg 407-411

if time: Quiz Review of story: https://digital.wwnorton.com/42549

James Joyce: The Annoying Epiphany Ending Explained (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrGzEO6Yd0): light imagery (2;50-4:10)

PowerPoint Slides # 1-12 (Post-Modernism PPT)

Trailer (2 min) for "The Dead" another story in The Dubliners

Hmwk: Stevie Smith “Not Waving but Drowning” pg 731, Stevie Smith “Pretty” pg 733-734 -- compare to -- Margaret Atwood (author of Handmaid’s Tale) “Miss July Grows Older” pg 1123-1124 & "Habitation" & "Crow's Song", and Carol Ann Duffy "Valentine" & "War Photographer" and then Answer these questions.

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

Attend a showing of MacBeth and before Monday class, turn in a copy of the ticket for proof (cost is $5) and a response paragraph. The paragraph should prove you actually watched it, mentioning your reaction (good or bad) to things that happened on stage! 11-6 at 6pm, 11-7 & 11-8 & 11-9 at 730 pm, 11-10 at 2pm

W 11-6 (Stevie Smith & Margaret Atwood & Carol Ann Duffy)

PowerPoint slides #13- 30 (Post-Modernism PPT)

Quiz 18 (from homework)

Review Extra Credit

Stevie Smith “Not Waving but Drowning” pg 731, Stevie Smith “Pretty” pg 733-734 -- compare to -- Margaret Atwood (author of Handmaid’s Tale) “Miss July Grows Older” pg 1123-1124 & "Habitation", "Crow's Song", and Carol Ann Duffy "Valentine" (Creative Media Project, 1.5 min compare to Sana Chabaan's Project, 1.5 min) & "Text" & "War Photographer" (19 min Mr Bruff Analysis or 2 min Silent Annotation)and then Answer these questions from homework

Atwood Biography (4 min) - her first reading was in a men's underwear section of a big department store, she invented this pen that auto-signs books, thinks bugs are delicious

Optional: photographer Don McCullin (5 min)

Hmwk: none

M 11-11 (WWII Poets)

Extra Credit due (Pamphlet & Paragraph)

PowerPoint slides #66-74 (Modernism PPT)

WWII Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWc52smNs8&list=PLeulUC74_O8TfKoX2muaphFeCGZ3ms7qe&index=1

Quiz #19 based on the following in class activity:

Please do not let one person do all the work as this could result in other members getting a zero even if they turn a completed activity in. IMPORTANT: When done, you will be assigned to a new group and as an expert on your assigned poem you will have to “report” to the new group on what you know!

In 1854, the Crimean War began when Britain and France declared war on Russia, and for the next two years British, French, Sardinian, and Turkish troops fought against Russians, resulting in 1 650 000 soldiers dying.

In 1914, WW1 began, lasting for five years and resulting in 16 million deaths of which 7 million were civilians.

In 1939, WW2 began, lasting for six years, and resulting in 75 million deaths, including 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.

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an estimated 70 million people died -- over 4 times as many as in World War I

Group 1: Claude McCay "If We Must Die" pg 855 (note when written)

Group 2: Edith Sitwell “Still Falls the Rain” pg 843-844

Group 3: Alun Lewis "All Day It Has Rained"

Group 4: Thom Gunn “Still Life” pg 940

Group 5: Sidney Keyes "Europe's Prisoners"

Group 6: Sidney Keyes "War Poet"

Group 7: Keith Douglas "Vergissmeinnicht" pg 846 (thought to have the most potential)

Group 8: Keith Douglas "Desert Flowers" (Note the nod to WW1 poet Rosenberg)

Group 9: Henry Reed "Naming of Parts" pg 844

Group 10:Ephim Fogel "Shipment to Maidanek" (Holocaust)

Group 11: Dylan Thomas "The Hand that Signed the Paper" (short but a bit more challenging because of the references)

If time, Propaganda film by Disney about WW2 (10 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vLrTNKk89Q

Hmwk: Hilary Mantel's "Winter Break" 1) Describe the wife. 2) Describe the husband. 3) What is the setting? 4) What does the wife imagine the bundle is that the taxi driver puts into the trunk? 5) What is the twist ending? 6) Why do you think she is in denial? 7) Do you think these characters are kind and good people? 8) Pick either symbolism or tone or theme or character, then show an example/quote from the text that illustrates one of these literary elements used by Mantel. 9) What makes this story modern? Optional: You may also want to take a look at upcoming Paper #3: see topic choices and P.E.E. and rubric

review his biography and examine Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” pg 833

go over homework, Mantel biography, story, & then if not done: look at both the Rubric & topic choices (Kureishi, Duffy, Zadie Smith, Desai)

"While historians are sometimes described as frustrated novelists, Hilary Mantel describes herself as a frustrated historian: ‘I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. So it began as second best.’ When she was writing Wolf Hall, she created a card index system to ensure her cast of characters were in the right place at the right time. But this does not mean that Mantel writes like a historian. Mantel’s fiction captures the classic contradiction of the historical novel: searching for veracity, truth and authenticity while all the time questioning what we thought we knew about the past." But she is one of few authors to win 2 Booker Prizes for Wolf Hall and for Bring Up the Bodies. The other we are studying is Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin is her first win & The Testament is her second win but she did not win for her most famous work: Handmaid's Tale!)

Hmwk: work on Response Paper 3 (Modern) -- see topic choices and P.E.E. and rubric

In Class Quiz & read aloud, focus on literary elements as puzzle pieces when author putting together a story

PowerPoint Post-Modern Slides #38-44 (brief look at biography then story then Bio, 13 min)

"Shooting an Elephant" (pages 734-740) -- We will read together and look over literary elements similar to essay #3)

Hmwk: work on Response Paper 3 (Modern) -- see topic choices and P.E.E. and rubric

Review difference between Romanticism vs Victorian Era vs Modernism vs Post-Modernism

Discuss immigration and our views, bias, and how it relates to the literature we read.

review for final, discuss 2 choices for FINAL (home option: essay on Adichie story due by 12-12 at 12:12pm to turnitin.com & not minute later or will zero or class option: midterm format)

In class test will cover Doyle to Adichie, including theme, setting, alliteration, symbolism, personification, tone, epiphany, sonnet, octave and sestet, character, villanelle, and the final will focus on these works)