Tuesday, 1/7/14: Restoration

* Open

• Per. 3, two more stories!

* Finish Your Notes: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1799)

* Now, let's read some example works. After you read each selection, please answer questions as a running Journal 8: Renaissance through Restoration Writers

• John Milton (biographical information: read the first five paragraphs today or tomorrow)
• Read Milton's poem "On Shakespeare"
• 1. What will Shakespeare's lasting monument be, according to Milton.  Was he correct?
• Read this selection from his essay "Of Education" (if you would like to read the entire essay, you may do so at Dartmouth)
• 2. What are three aspects of Milton's ideal education that you like? Explain.
• 3. What are two aspects of Milton's ideal education that you find inferior to education today?  Explain.

If you finish early: Tomorrow:

• Read "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
• 4.  How might this poem relate to the poet losing his own eye-sight.  Explain.
•  Read Book 1 of Paradise Lost 
• 5.  In one paragraph, tell me about Milton's depiction of Satan. 

• If you would like to read any more Milton, consider the John Milton Reading Room at Dartmouth. 

HW: Journal 8, through question 3; the only notes I will check tomorrow, though, are those from the historical overview of the periods.