A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING

ENGLISH 4

                                                            SEVEN STEP LESSON

                                                                   APRIL 29, 2013

                                         A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING

DO NOW: IF YOU WERE LEAVING SOMEONE FOR A LONG TIME WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THE PERSON WHOM YOU LOVE AND WERE LEAVING BEHIND?  IF YOU WERE THE ONE BEING LEFT BEHIND WHAT WOULD YOU WANT YOUR LOVED ONE TO SAY TO YOU?  COLLECT YOUR THOUGHTS FIRST AND THEN DEVELOP A SHORT PARAGRAPH IN RESPONSE TO THIS.

DIRECT INSTRUCTION:  READ PAGE 340 AND TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO THE LITERARY FOCUS SECTION AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT ARE METAPHYSICAL CONCEITS?
2. GIVE SOME EXAMPLES OF A METAPHYSICAL CONCEIT.
3. IN WHAT WAY DID THE METAPHYSICAL POETS USE THESE CONCEITS?
4. WHAT WOULD A METAPHYSICAL POET BE TRYING TO SAY IF THEY WERE USING THESE IMAGES IN A POEM:

• A LOVER’S TEARS  ARE NEWLY MINTED COINS
• THE KING’S COURT IS A BOWLING ALLEY
• A MAN IS A WORLD
• LOVERS ARE HOLY SAINTS

5. WHAT DOES THIS WRITER MEAN WHEN HE SAYS “IN THIS POEM, THE LOVERS ARE COMPARED TO THE TWO PRONGS OF A COMPASS (THE KIND USED TO DRAW CIRCLES IN GEOMETRY   
6. IN THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON PAGE 340 WHO DID WALTON SAY DONNE WROTE THIS POEM FOR?
7. WHERE DID DONNE TRAVEL AND WHAT TYPE OF JOB DID HE HOLD?
8. WHAT DID DONNE’S WIFE URGE HIM TO DO?
9. AS A RESULT OF DONNE NOT LISTENING TO HIS WIFE WHAT WERE THE RESULTS?
10. DESCRIBE THE VISION THAT DONNE HAD.
11. WHO WAS ROBERT DRURY?
12. IN WHAT WAY WOULD YOU SAY THAT THIS VISION IMPACTED DONNE?

GUIDED PRACTICE:   

1. READ THE FIRST TWO PARAGRAPHS.  WHY DO YOU THINK THE SPEAKER OF THIS POEM IS URGING HIS LOVED ONE (WIFE) TO DEPART FROM HIM?
2. READ THE THIRD STANZA.  WHAT IS THIS SAYING ABOUT THE PHENOMENON OF THE EARTH?
3. WHAT IS THE FOURTH STANZA SAYING ABOUT LOVERS?
4. WHAT SIMILE IS USED IN THE SIXTH STANZA?  
5. WHAT SEPARATION IS BEING REFERRED TO IN THE SIXTH STANZA?
6. DEFINE METAPHYSICAL POETRY ON PAGE 1423.
7. EXAMINE STANZA SEVEN.  WHAT ARE THE HUSBAND AND WIFE BEING COMPARED TO?
8. WHAT MAKES THE DESCRIPTION OR COMPARISON USED IN STANZA SEVEN A METAPHYSICAL CONCEIT?
9. WHAT DOES THE EIGHTH STANZA SUGGEST ABOUT COMPLETENESS AND COMING HOME?
10.                          A CIRCLE SYMBOLIZES COMPLETENESS.  IN WHAT WAY IS COMPLETENESS SYMBOLIZED HERE?

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: EXAMINE THE EXAMPLES GIVEN UNDER THE CATEGORY METAPHYSICAL POETS ON PAGE 340.  SELECT A DESCRIPTION

SUCH AS “A LOVER’S TEARS ARE NEWLY MINTED COINS,” “THE KING’S COURT IS A BOWLING ALLEY,” “A MAN IS A WORLD” AND “LOVERS ARE HOLY SAINTS” AND THEN CREATE A POEM OF YOUR OWN CENTERING AROUND THESE DESCRIPTIONS.  YOU CAN ALSO THINK OF YOUR OWN METAPHYSICAL CONCEITS AND CREATE YOUR OWN POEM.

EXIT TICKET: ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:

(1)   HOW WOULD YOU PARAPHRASE THE SIMILE IN LINES 1-8?

(2)   EXAMINE LINES 1-8 AGAIN.  WHAT EMOTIONS DOES THIS FIGURE OF SPEECH EVOKE?

(3)   THE SPEAKER TELLS HIS WIFE THAT THEIR LOVE IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF OTHER COUPLES.  WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES HE SEE AND HOW DOES HE EXPRESS IT.

(4)   WHY DO YOU THINK DONNE REFERS TO IRREGULAR EVENTS ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS IN LINES 9-12?  WHAT KIND OF EVENTS ARE LIKE THE SEPARATION OF LOVERS?

(5)   HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THE CONCEIT DONNE USS IN LINES 25-36

AND WHAT DOES IT SUGGEST ABOUT THE NATURE OF LOVE?

EDWARD EDWARD

                                                            ENGLISH 4                             

                                                    “EDWARD…EDWARD”

                                       TEXT: ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

                                                        SIXTH COURSE

                                                       JANUARY 2, 2013

                                                                                                                            (1)

DO NOW: THINK ABOUT ANYTHING THAT DEALS WITH SENSATIONALISM,

(SUBJECT MATTER, LANGUAGE, OR STYLE OF WRITING THAT PRODUCES

 OR IS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE STARTLING OR THRILLING IMPRESSIONS OR

 TO EXCITE AND PLEASE A SICK OR VULGAR TASTE).  THEN THINK ABOUT

 A SENSATIONAL SUBJECT MATTER THAT DEALS WITH HOME ISSUES AND

 YET THESE ISSUES BECOME NEWS WORTHY AND THAT GETS REPORTED

 ON TELEVISION OR RADIO.  IDENTIFY SUCH A SUBJECT MATTER AND

 THEN WRITE IT IN THE SAME WAY IN WHICH A NEWS REPORT WOULD BE

READ.  USE SENSATIONAL LANGUAGE IN ORDER TO GET YOUR

AUDIENCE’S ATTENTION.

DIRECT INSTRUCTION: READ REFLECTING ON THE LITERARY PERIOD (PAGE 225) AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. WHO WERE THE MEDIEVAL ROMANCES COMPOSED FOR?
2. WHAT FLOURISHED DURING THE MIDDLE AGES?
3. IN WHAT WAY IS THE STYLE OF A ROMANCE DIFFERENT FROM THE STYLE OF A BALLAD?
4. WHAT TYPE OF SYSTEM DOES SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT RERFLECT?
5. WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF MEDIEVAL NARRATORS THAT CONTINUES TO RESONATE?
6. HOW IS THE POPULAR OR FOLK BALLAD DEFINED?
7. WHY IS THE BALLAD EFFECTIVE?
8. WHAT ARE THE MOST POPULAR THEMES IN THE FOLK BALLAD?
9. DISCUSS IN YOUR OPINION WHY THESE THEMES WOULD HAVE BEEN POPULAR?
10. WHAT IS IT THAT THE BALLAD DOES NOT PROVIDE?
11. YET, THE BALLAD IS DESCRIBED HOW?
12. SOMETIME THE BALLAD DEALT WITH WHAT?
13. IN A FOLK BALLAD WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT PLOT?
14. DEFINE CHIVALRY IN YOUR OWN WORDS.                                      (2)

GUIDED PRACTICE: READ THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF “EDWARD, EDWARD” ON PAGE ON PAGE 226 AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. WHY IS “EDWARD, EDWARD” CONSIDERED AS AN “INTERNATIONAL BALLAD?”
2. WHAT WAS THE SWEDISH VERSION?
3. WHAT WAS SIR THOMAS PERCY’S ROLE WITH THE BALLADS IN THE 1760’S?
4. TURN TO PAGE 133 AND RE READ THE LITERARY FOCUS BALLADS: POPULAR POETRY AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: (A) WHERE DO BALLADS COME FROM? (B) WHAT IS IT THAT WE LEARNED ABOUT BALLAD FORM? (C) WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT HAS COME TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BALLAD? (D) WHAT ARE THE CONVENTIONS USED BY THE BALLAD SINGERS? (E) DEFINE INCREMENTAL REPETITION (F) DEFINE QUESTION AND ANSWER FORMAT.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: READ THE BALLAD “EDWARD, EDWARD” ON PAGE 226 AND PERFORM THE FOLLOWING TASK:

1. PARAPHRASE THE BALLAD “EDWARD, EDWARD”
2. THINK ABOUT YOUR TOPIC FROM THE “DO NOW” AND CREATE YOUR OWN BALLAD BASED ON THE SUBJECT MATTER THAT YOU HAVE SELECTED.
3. SUMMARIZE “EDWARD, EDWARD.”

CHECKS FOR UNDERSTANDING: BASED ON YOUR READING OF “EDWARD, EDWARD” ON PAGE 226 ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. IDENTIFY THE FORMAT OF “EDWARD, EDWARD.”
2. COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE FORMAT AND SUBJECT MATTER OF “EDWARD, EDWARD” WITH THE FORMAT AND SUBJECT MATTER OF LORD RANDALL ON PAGE 131.
3. THINK IN TERMS OF MAKING A LIVING AND THEN EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF EDWARD’S HORSE AND HAWK.
4. WHAT HAPPENS TO EDWARD’S HAWK AND HORSE?
5. NOTICE THE RESPONSES OF EDWARD’S MOTHER.  WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT HER CHARACTER?
6. WHY DOES EDWARD KILL HIS OWN FATHER?
7. WHAT COULD NOW BE THE MENTAL STATE OF EDWARD?  IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE THAT THE FAMILY COULD HAVE LEAD TO HIS MENTAL CONDITION?  EXPLAIN.
8. WHY IS EDWARD GOING AWAY?
9. IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE THAT EDWARD PLANS TO KILL HIS MOTHER TOO?  WHAT IS THIS EVIDENCE?                                          (3)
10. FIND EXAMPLES OF INCREMENTAL REPETITION AND HOW DOES IT  EFFECT THE CLIMAX?

EXIT TICKET: RE READ “EDWARD, EDWARD” AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:  IN “EDWARD, EDWARD” ONE PIECE OF ACTION LEADS TO ANOTHER PIECE OF ACTION, HOWEVER WHAT QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED?  CITE DETAILS FROM THE BALLAD TO SUPPORT YOUR POSITION.

HOMEWORK: THINK IN TERMS OF THE POPULAR FOLK BALLAD.  DEVELOP A WELL WRITTEN COMPOSITION EXPLAINING THE IMPLICATIONS OF EDWARD’S LAST RESPONSE TO HIS MOTHER IN THE FINAL STANZA OF THE BALLAD.