Reading Schedule for The Stranger

Here is the reading schedule for The Stranger.  Please read the chapters on the days they are assigned.

DATE:    CHAPTER(S):

Part I:
1/30         1
2/2           2 and 3
2/3           4 and 5
2/4           6

Part II:
2/5          1
2/6          2
2/9          3
2/10        4
2/11        5

Library Research Project

We will be in the library during class time on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week.

Mr. Broomhead

English 12AP

tbroomhead@acsdny.org

http://english12apmrbroomhead.blogspot.com/

Poetry Paper

For this assignment, you will explicate a poem by one of the poets listed below.  You will use published literary criticism to enhance your explication, so be sure to choose a “canonical” poem. 

Your explication will be a 6-8 page, typed, double-spaced research paper.  You must use at least five cited sources; they may be articles from books, journals, or databases.  Sparknotes, Wikipedia articles, Cliff’s Notes, and the like are not acceptable.  There are some useful internet resources; I have links to some of them on my webpage.

·         Please provide a copy of the poem with your paper.

·         Please print a copy of your paper.  Electronic copies will not be accepted. 

·         Your paper must meet MLA guidelines.

The Poets:

A.R. Ammons; Matthew Arnold; Margaret Atwood; John Ashbery; W.H. Auden; Aphra Behn; John Berryman; Elizabeth Bishop; William Blake; Anne Bradstreet; Gwendolyn Brooks; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Billy Collins; Hart Crane; Robert Creeley; e.e. cummings; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle); James Dickey; Emily Dickinson; John Donne; John Dryden; Paul Laurence Dunbar; T.S. Eliot; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Robert Frost (NOT “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” or “The Road Not Taken”); Allen Ginsberg; Thomas Hardy; Seamus Heaney; George Herbert; Robert Herrick; Geoffrey Hill; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Langston Hughes; Ben Jonson; James Joyce; John Keats; Kenneth Koch; Philip Larkin; D.H. Lawrence; Denise Levertov; Amy Lowell; Robert Lowell; Andrew Marvell; Herman Melville; Edna St. Vincent Millay; John Milton; Marianne Moore; Frank O’Hara; Sylvia Plath; Edgar Allen Poe (NOT “The Raven”); Alexander Pope; Ezra Pound; Adrienne Rich; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Theodore Roethke; Christina Rossetti; Muriel Rukeyser; Anne Sexton; William Shakespeare; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Sir Philip Sidney; Stevie Smith; Gary Snyder; Edmund Spenser; William Stafford; Wallace Stevens; May Swenson; Sarah Teasdale; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Dylan Thomas; Robert  Penn Warren; Phillis Wheatley; Walt Whitman; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams; William Wordsworth; James Wright; William Butler Yeats

·         Rough drafts are due: 17 February

·         Final drafts are due: 2 March

Please do not plagiarize.

Frankenstein Essay

Reminder: we will be writing about compassion and sacrifice in Frankenstein tomorrow and Friday.

Frankenstein Discussion Topics

Parallel characters

hatred
parents/children
revenge
revolt
binary opposition
pride
ambition
compassion

loneliness
sacrifice
responsibility
"being human"
intelligence/wisdom
science/black magic

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE FINISHED WITH THE BOOK

Books that Influence "The Monster"

John Milton: Paradise Lost

Plutarch: Lives

Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

C.F. Volney: Ruins of Empires

What are these books about?  What are the “big ideas?” How do these ideas influence the “monster?”  Compare what the “monster” says about the books (118-119 and 128-131) to what you discover. What is the relationship between these works and Frankenstein as a whole?

Reading Schedule for the Rest of Frankenstein

date   read to   chapters

1/5    152         12-14

1/6    169         -17

1/7     190        -19

1/8     209        -21

1/9     236        -24 and the Afterward

Here's "Mutability," by Percy Shelley

                  I.

We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;

    How restlessly they speed and gleam and quiver,

Streaking the darkness radiantly! yet soon

Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:—

                                         II.

Or like forgotten lyres whose dissonant strings

    Give various response to each varying blast,

To whose frail frame no second motion brings

    One mood or modulation like the last.

                                        III.

We rest—a dream  has power to poison sleep;

    We rise—one wandering thought pollutes the day;

We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep,

Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:—

                                       IV.

It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,

    The path of its departure still is free;

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;

    Nought may endure but Mutability.

Source: The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The text carefully revised by William Michael Rossetti, Volume 3 (John Slark, 1885)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241616