Pride and Prejudice Book Checkout

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Block Your Pride; Stop Your Prejudice: Read a Purer Romance

* Open: turn J12 into the silver tray

* First, Finish the AP M.C.

• Do 1-11; 25-34
• Skip 12-24

* Next, take the Neoclassical and Romantic Writers Quiz

* Begin reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

•  Reading Journal 13 (Please answer this and all further Austen questions as a running Journal 13)
• 1.  The opening line of this novel is one of the most famous in English history.  Why do you think it is so memorable?  What tone do you detect in this line? 

HW: Read (at least) chapters 1-5 in Pride and Prejudice

Wednesday, 2/12/14: Keats

* Open

• Work on Journal 12 from the opening of class so that you can ask questions. 

*Do J12:  Byron, Shelley, and Keats

* Writers Quiz on Block Day

• Writers
• Milton, Donne, and Herrick
• Bacon, Swift, Johnson
• Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth
• Byron, Shelley, and Keats

•  Format
• Short answer

HW: J12; review

The Darker Side of the Romantic Moon

* Open

• Please check the AP Test List
• Please punctuate: 
• "Lord Byron and Percy Shelley were described as 'monsters of lying meanness cruelty and treachery' in a memoir by their ex lover." 
• Not very romantic ruminations on our randy, ruinous Romantics: Free love never was free 

* Blake Essay

* Byron, Shelley, and Keats

HW: J12 Due Block Day

Monday, 2/10/14

 Open

•  Grammar
  "And the might of the Gentil  unsmote by the sword
  Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord"

 

* Blake Essay

* Byron, Shelley, and Keats

HW: Work on Byron