Wednesday, December 11, 2013

What Should I Study for the First Trimester Exam?

I.     Vocabulary

Basic Word List
Word Lists 1-22

Definitions, synonyms, and word parts

I.         Spelling – Lists 1-13

II.       Grammar and CompositionElements of Language

A.    Types of Phrases – Chapter 16
B.     Types of Subordinate Clauses – Chapter 17
C.     Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons – Chapter 17
D.    Types of Sentences According to Structure – Chapter 17
(simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)

III.      Literature   
(Literary periods, literary techniques, authors, genres, quotations, details, details, details . . . )

A.    The Anglo-Saxon Period
B.   Beowulf
C.   The Middle Ages
D.   The Canterbury Tales: “General Prologue,” “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” – Chaucer
E.     The Renaissance
F.     Sonnets 18, 29, 116 – Shakespeare  (Be sure to know the first line of each.)
G.    Macbeth – Shakespeare
H.    “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” – Donne
I.      “Death Be Not Proud” (Holy Sonnet #10) – Donne
J.    “Meditation 17” – Donne
K.     “Of Studies,” – Bacon
L.     “To His Coy Mistress” – Marvell
M.   “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” – Milton
N.     Paradise Lost (excerpt from Book I) – Milton
O.    The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
P.     “A Modest Proposal” – Swift

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Check out this helpful link to all of the works of William Shakespeare . . .

http://shakespeare.mit.edu

Friday, September 20, 2013

The Canterbury Tales

Here is a link to the full translated text of The Canterbury Tales:


http://english.fsu.edu/canterbury/

Thursday, June 6, 2013

What Should I Study for the Comprehensive Examination?

VOCABULARY
Chapter III Central Ideas
Chapter IV Words from Greek
Chapter V Words from Latin
Chapter VI Words from Classical Mythology/History
Chapter VII Anglo-Saxon Vocab., Latin Synonyms
Chapter VIII French Words in English
Chapter IX Italian Words in English
Chapter X Spanish Words in English
Definitions/synonyms only

SPELLING Lists 1 – 25

GRAMMAR Chapter 16 The Phrase
Chapter 17 The Clause
(including sentence classified according
to structure: simple, compound,
complex, compound-complex)
Fragments, run-ons, complete
sentences

LITERATURE (Know literary periods, literary techniques, authors,
genres, quotations, details, details, details . . . )

THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD (449 A.D. – 1066 A.D.)
Background essay/notes, pp. 32 – 47
Beowulf, pp. 48 - 79

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (1066 A.D. – 1485 A.D.)
Background essay/notes, pp. 104 – 107
Chaucer, “General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, pp. 120 - 145
Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” pp. 153 – 167

THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1485 A.D. – 1660 A.D.)
Background essay/notes, pp. 234 – 243
Shakespeare, Biography, pp. 284 – 286
Sonnet 18 (handout)
Sonnet 29, p. 291
Sonnet 116, p. 287
Shakespeare, Macbeth, pp. 302 – 389
Bacon, “Of Studies,” pp. 273 – 276
Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” p. 414 – 415, 418 – 419
Donne, “Death Be Not Proud,” p. 420
Donne, “Meditation 17,” p. 422 – 425
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress,” pp. 455 – 458
Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent,” pp. 459 – 462
Milton, from Paradise Lost, pp. 464 – 474

THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660 A.D. – 1798 A.D.)
Background essay/notes, pp. 492 – 503
Swift, “A Modest Proposal,” pp. 516 – 526

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798 A.D. – 1832 A.D.)
Background Essay/notes, pp. 650 – 661
Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” pp. 598 – 605
Blake, “The Lamb,” pp. 662 – 663, 665
Blake, “The Tyger,” pp. 666
Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” pp. 686 – 688
Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” pp. 691 – 697
Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” pp. 709 – 713
Byron, “She Walks in Beauty,” pp. 759 – 760, 763 – 764
Shelley, “Ozymandias,” pp. 765 – 769
Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind,” pp. 770 – 772
Keats, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” pp. 780 – 781, 784
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” pp. 786 – 787

THE VICTORIAN AGE (1832 A.D. – 1901 A.D.)
• British Empire reaches its peak under Queen Victoria; vast empire includes
ScotlandIreland, and India.
• Middle class comes into its own, feeling a sense of patriotism, propriety, and
responsibility for the world.
• The novel becomes an extremely popular literary form.
Background essay/notes, pp. 804 – 815
Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., “Lyric #7”, pp. 816 – 818
Tennyson, “Ulysses,” pp. 825 – 828
Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover,” pp. 840 – 841, 844 – 847
Browning, “My Last Duchess,” pp. 842 – 843
Arnold, “Dover Beach,” pp. 848 – 851
Hardy, “The Man He Killed,” pp. 868 – 869, 871
Hardy, “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” pp. 872 – 874
Hopkins, “Pied Beauty,” pp. 877 – 879
Housman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,” pp. 887 – 888

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1901 A.D. – 2000 A.D.)
• World War I and World War II
• T.S. Eliot is considered the leading literary poet of this period.
• English literature takes on a very ironic, pessimistic, and sober mood.
Background essay/notes, pp. 908 – 919
Shaw, Pygmalion, pp. 920 – 990
Brooke, “The Soldier,” pp. 1001 - 1002, 1003
Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” p. 1004
Sassoon, “Dreamers,” p. 1005 -1007
Huxley, Brave New World
Eliot, “The Hollow Men,” pp. 1072 – 1073, 1076 – 1081
Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” pp. 1142 – 144
Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” p. 1154 – 1155, 1158
Golding, The Lord of the Flies

Friday, January 11, 2013

William Blake's Art

Here is an excellent overview of William Blake's art and achievements during the Romantic Period.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/blke/hd_blke.htm