Tuesday, 1/20/15: An Immodest Proposal

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• Turn in your printed poems
• Read the refresher on Who vs. Whom
• Now, attack the exercise: Who vs. Whom #2  (do 1-10 today).

• Calendar: Block Day Quiz
• Reading
• Notes (historical and literary) and Terms
• Vocabulary 
• Grammar

* Review Journal 18: John Donne (or King Charles) and Robert Herrick.  Choose one and respond:

• In one paragraph, describe a key difference between John Donne and Robert Herrick's style.  Incorporate at least one quotation from a poem from either poet to support your ideas.
• The musician Charles Costa goes by the name of King Charles (lyrics).  What kind of image do you think he is projecting?  Is his image intended to invoke a Cavalier/Royalist or a Roundhead/Commonwealth connotation?  Explain in one paragraph. 

Assignment:

• Add to Terms: Satire
• Read: A Modest Proposal
• Optional Extra Reading
• Read: A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed (it's a sad, sad world, sometimes)

• For More Background (not required):

• Jonathan Swift
• Introduction to "A Modest Proposal"

* Journal Response: Swift (19)

• "A Modest Proposal": There is one paragraph featuring a proliferation of colons.  Explain what these colons help to create and how this paragraph exhibits a shift in tone. 

* Extra time?  Read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
HW: Journal 19; finish and study your vocabulary

King Charles I

Queen Henrietta

Oliver Cromwell Wanted A New Order

Charles I Dismissed This and Made Secret Plans to Bring in Foreign Military Support.  Charles I Was Beheaded in 1649.

Cromwell Wins but Increasingly Loses Parliamentary Control. He Gives Himself Full Executive Powers.

Cromwell Estates Those Powers to His Son, Richard, Who Rules for Less Than a Year Before Resigning in 1659.

Sorry, Cromwell: Charles II in 1660