English Literature 12

Thank you everyone for attending and participating in today’s class. I enjoyed the discussion around Wyatt’s poem and your input on marking blog entries, etc.
Mr. Reid shared with me at the end of class how much he enjoyed sitting in on it. He said he really enjoyed hearing your thoughts and seeing you wrestle with [...]

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Literature 12
Medieval Essay Assignment
Mr. Nelson
In order to help us keep the Medieval texts we have encountered in our brains, as well as get going on essay writing, we will begin with outlining a comparative essay. This assignment will go through the steps of preparing for writing an essay, BUT does not end with the [...]

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For Thursday’s class, examine page 245. There are two poems there:
Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
and Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Pay attention to the tone in each and how they compare. We will explore this in class and you will probably be blogging a response.
I will also give time in class for [...]

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Sonnet = 14 line poem that usually uses iambic pentameter and follows a specific form.
Iambic Pentameter = 5 groups of words, each = 2 syllables. The last syllable of each is stressed or given an accent.
Petrarchan Sonnet Also known as the Italian sonnet, because Petrarch came from [...]

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Note: These are taken from the following website, which is a group of article abstracts or summaries completed by University course participants.
English 362: Reading Summaries / Abstracts Malaspina University-College. Accessed Nov 15,05.
I have pasted some quotes (complete with spelling errors…)that I think are appropriate in approaching Wyatt and his times. Feel free [...]

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Ballad
“a narrative poem, intended to be sung without a known author. [...] Most ballads include these features:
- Four-line stanzas in whicn the second and fourth lines rhyme
- Repeated key phrases or a regularly repeated section, called a refrain
- Dialogue. ( Prentice Hall Literature: The British Tradition 189)

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hi everyone,
‘Gawain’ will be discussed on Thursday’s class, as we spent most of today’s class setting up and testing the team blog… My apologies for the many and varied problems we encountered in this process. It is all very new to me , and some of the problems were due to computer errors as [...]

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Originally uploaded by james matthew.
Just test driving the capabilities of this blog as far as photo pasting goes.
Hopefully this week we will finish off Gawain and move into the Renaissance and 17th Century.
Look out, here comes the sonnett
I am also hoping to port our as of yet not established group blog over to learnerblogs.org, as [...]

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Hi everyone…
I just finished commenting on your comments from the ‘Barbara Allan’ post, and my mind is just whirring. I am amazed, blown away, and totally jazzed at the depth of response you each gave. Right on, everyone! Your answers were succint and thoughtful, and I hope you enjoyed writing them and enjoy reading each [...]

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After reading ‘Barbara Allan’ –>pg. 199
Read and respond to (comment on the blog) one of the questions at the end of the section.
Please remember to check your spelling.

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