Objective:
Students will explicate "On the Sonnet" by Keats
and "The Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti.
Class Activities:
- Research: (15 minutes)
- GROUP A:
- Look up the following myths and vocabulary words:
- Myth of "Andromeda"
- Myth of "Midas"
- Myth of "The Nine Muses"
- Vocabulary word: lyre (use OED)
- Vocabulary word: miser (use OED)
- Vocabulary term: Petrarchan Sonnet
- Vocabulary term: Elizabethan (Shakespearean) Sonnet
- GROUP B:
- Look up the following:
- Biography of Christina Rossetti
- Victorian Age
- Victorian Age Societal Views on Women
- Finish: "On the Sonnet" by John Keats
- Read: "The Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti
- DUE on Today (3.9.12) AB
- DUE on Today (3.9.12) B Day: Read Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft's "The Mortal Immortal"
- DUE on Monday (3.20.12) B Day: Finish all chapters in Shelley'sFrankenstein.
Work Collected in Class:
- Annotated outline of "On the Sonnet" or "The Goblin Market" essay.