Some Background Info on Tennyson

http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/

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 Composition – Elements 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

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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

http://shakespeare.mit.edu

The Canterbury Tales

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

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

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

Scotland, Ireland, 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

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

What to Study for the Trimester Exam

What to Study for the Trimester Exam

                           Vocabulary

A.      Chapter III, “Building Vocabulary Through Central Ideas,” bliss – vanity,  pp. 46-106 

B.      Chapter IV, “Words Derived From Greek,” acrophobia – peritonitis,

 pp. 107-145

C.      Chapter V, “Words Derived From Latin,” Latin Prefixes 1 – 30 (a – vice) and Lessons 1 – 15 only, abrupt – perfidy, pp. 146-176

Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and word parts (Greek roots and prefixes, Latin roots and prefixes; be sure to study the list of thirty Latin prefixes found at the beginning of Chapter V.)

                             Spelling – Lists 1-13 (see Spelling List page)

                             Grammar and Composition – Elements 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)

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

Full play of Macbeth can be found here . . .

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html

A reading of the General Prologue in Middle English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU

Click on the link below to hear a reading of Beowulf in Old English.

Beowulf