Friday, March 9, 2012

Friday Day 63 (3.9.12) B Day

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
    Homework:
    1. DUE on Today (3.9.12) AB
    2. DUE on Today (3.9.12) B Day: Read Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft's "The Mortal Immortal"
    3. DUE on Monday (3.20.12) B Day: Finish all chapters in Shelley'sFrankenstein.
    Work Collected in Class:
    1. Annotated outline of "On the Sonnet" or "The Goblin Market" essay.