English Literature 12

Hi everyone,
I am really frustrated to hear some of you are recieving spam emails that are coming via this and the team blog…how it works: basically, someone has a program running that goes out and puts comments or ‘trackbacks’ (- in short a link to a site -usually a blog- that appears as an excerpt [...]

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Hi everyone, and thank you for participating in the class brainstorm essay session today. I am hoping to get you all primed for that provincial essay, which will be similar to what we did in class.
I just wanted to remind you that we will be doing exam prep from here on out, and that I [...]

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Hi everyone,
Just a reminder to read Arnold’s “Dover Beach” pg. 884 for Wednesday.
I hope you all have a great weekend, spend some time reflecting on what an awesome historical event this weekend marks, and spend some quality time with family.
Mr. N

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Here’s hoping this works! You should see a link so you can download the timeline up to the Enlightenment….give it a try and let me know (ie drop a comment here) if it works!
timeline

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Here’s hoping this works! You should see a link so you can download the timeline up to the Enlightenment….give it a try and let me know (ie drop a comment here) if it works!

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Hi Everyone,
A strange class today, what with the ‘waiting for the lockdown’ and all…
Thank you for working through this and for letting us burn through a few poems. I will post my reading notes to them after this.
Assigned for Monday (no lit. class on Friday):
Read: Milton’s Sonnet XIX (”On His Blindness”) and blog an answer [...]

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I suggest you read them in the following order:
Herrick – “To the Virgins”
Donne – “A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning”, a pretty cool one if you read it real close
end with: “Death Be Not Proud” it is a great one that will lift your spirits!
Come to class on Monday ready to talk about these.

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Poem Exploration Assignment
After a lengthy and in depth consultation with some of my trusted, top level advisors (thanks Angelina and Ellie!), you are to complete the following assignment (Ok, so it wasn’t all that lengthy, or in depth, but they gave the nod anyways!):
Your assignment is to work with one of the poems we have [...]

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Shakespearean Sonnet: A twist on the sonnet…Shakespeare’s sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. Usually, the third quatrain will alter the general direction the poem is taking, and the rhyming couplet (two rhymed lines of poetry) will sum it all up.
rhyme scheme (the [...]

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Hi everyone,
In today’s class we wrote the Act III-IV quiz. I think all of you will ace it, especially because of our review beforehand…
Assigned for Thursday: Act 4 blog/log post.
On Thursday we will begin experiencing Ethan Hawke’s version of the play (that is, assuming I can get ahold of a copy!)
For Tuesday you [...]

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