Learning targets: 1) I can read, annotate, and analyze informational texts on topics related to diverse and non-traditional cultures and viewpoints.
2) I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative connotative, and technical meanings; and analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone
3) I can determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis and an objective summary of the text.
In class: vocabulary quiz for "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
Handout / copy below "Usher" 2...quiz on Friday, December 18
“House of Usher”
Week 2 Vocabulary
{Quiz on these 11 words on Friday, 18
December}
insufferable (adj): unbearable, unacceptable
melancholy (adj) or (n): unexplainable sadness
to grapple (v): to wrestle with or struggle with
trifling (adj): unimportant or trivial
tarn (n): a small mountain lake
dilapidated (adj): neglected, in disrepair
countenance (n): a face or facial expression
vivacious (adj): attractively lively or animated
cadaverous (adj): resembling a corpse; very pale, thin
and bony
pallid (adj): pale, usually due to ill health
gloom (n): darkness or state of depression
For those of you who have finished and want to get ahead, here is the summative essay assignment. class handout / copy below.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Expository essay assignment. Due Wednesday, December 16 by the end of the
day. If you receive an extension, this is due on Thursday. Everyone must turn in the essay and an
outline, as shown on the back of this sheet.
What is an expository essay? This genre of essay requires
you to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set
forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. This is
exactly what you have done in the Hamlet and “A Room of One’s Own”
essays.
Directions:
Introduction:
Begin with your hook sentence that is a general statement
about the topic
Include in the introduction genre (poem in this case),
author / poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the title of the poem “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”
A clear, concise, and
defined thesis statement that occurs in the first paragraph of the essay.
Your introduction should include the basic points that you
will cover within the essay. Take this from your outline.
Minimum 3 body paragraphs
Each must include evidential support; that is textual
evidence. Weave in the text. Use quotations. Cite by stanza.
Eg. “The Mariner
hath his will” (Mariner 4).
Make sure that within each body paragraph you have a
controlling idea, support / evidence for your statement and very importantly an
analysis statement. Why or how is what you say significant.
Conclusion: A conclusion that does not simply restate the
thesis, but readdresses it in light of the evidence provided.
Essay topic choices. Read carefully and ask specific questions.
Below you will find the list of 5 themes that you have
explored in the poem. These were at the top of the graphic organizer. Select one and show how Coleridge develops
the theme in his poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and how it supports the
philosophical ideas of Romanticism: 1)
love of Nature, 2) the idealization of rural living, 3) a faith in
common people, 4) an emphasis on freedom, 5) individualism, spontaneity,
intuition, feeling, imagination, wonder, 5) a passionate individual religiosity
6) life after death and 7.an organic
view of the world.
1. The
Natural World (It can be beautiful and frightening and powerful) (often
simultaneously),
2. The
Spiritual World: The Metaphysical (The poem occurs in the natural, physical
world-the land and ocean. However, the work has popularly been interpreted as
an allegory of man's connection to the spiritual, metaphysical world.
3. Liminality-"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" typifies the Romantic fascination with
liminal spaces. A liminal space is defined as a place on the edge of a realm or
between two realms, whether a forest and a field, or reason and imagination.
4. Imprisonment-"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is in many ways a portrait of imprisonment
and its inherent loneliness and torment.
5. Retribution-The
poem is a tale of retribution, since the Ancient Mariner spends most of the
poem paying for his one, impulsive error of killing the Albatross.
Name_________________________________-
Topic Choice_________________________________________-
Thesis statement: _________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three points that you include in your introduction that you
will make in your three body paragraphs.
Point
1______________________________________________________________________________________
2________________________________________________________________________________
Point
3_____________________________________________________________________________
Conclusion:
Possibilities
What broader knowledge is to be learned from has Coleridge’s
development of the theme of
____________________ in the “Mariner” ?
Think about long term outcomes.
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