English Literature 12

Thanks for the notes, Robyn!!
English Lit. Notes
May 11 2006
Disembarking in Quebec – by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood decided to write about Susanna Moody because she was one of the first canadian settlers. Margaret traces Susanna’s life coming to and being in Canada.
When Susanna came to Canada her life was not easy. Her status was gone and [...]

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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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Thank you, Tamara, for these great notes!
Victorian Era has a different view on nature, because they see it as calyst, instead of putting themselves in it
dramatic monologue (title gives it away)
dramatic – tells a story
monologue – one person is talking
so therefore dramatic monologue is a person talking like a poem or story form
addresses somebody with [...]

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Hi everyone,
I hope you enjoyed the house team activities today as a relaxing alternative to Literature class!
Don’t worry about the quiz, we will do that when you return from spring break.
Remember that your assignment for spring break is as follows:
1. Have fun and relax! Spend time with your friends and family…enjoy life!
2. Read [...]

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Hi everyone,
Remember to read:
Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us” pg. 675
and “My Heart Leaps Up” (from your photocopy handout)
For Wednesday.
We will have a short (10 question) quiz on Wednesday that will cover literary selections (identifying quotes) and terms.
Only a few more days until Spring Break!!

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Thanks to Iain for these notes. Sorry, the bullets didn’t paste in…
Rape of the Lock Pt. II
Belinda is playing a card game that has become a war between spirits
The game has come down to one final hand
Belinda plays the King, and it looks like she’ll win
Now Belinda and her opponent are having coffee
The coffee helps [...]

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Thanks to Robyn for these great class notes!

Literature 12 Notes.
Monday February 13, 2006.

*Epic- A very long story. There is an Epic hero. There’s the exile, journey, then the return. Good vs. evil. It starts usually in what’s known as the medias res (in the middle of things). Another thing an epic has is that there [...]

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Hi everyone,
Here are my rough reading notes for these poems. I have also included vocabulary stuff.
Donne – A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning
First off, the title really strikes me here. I have to admit, I had to look up valediction in the dictionary.
“Valediction: saying farewell; a taking leave, an instance of this, a speech made [...]

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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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Here’s my rough notes on these:
Donne – A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning
First off, the title really strikes me here. I have to admit, I had to look up valediction in the dictionary.
“Valediction: saying farewell; a taking leave, an instance of this, a speech made at this time” (Webster’s New English Dictionary and Thesaurus, [...]

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