Senior
British Literature
Ms. McDermott Greaney
Block 5th and 6th (B)
March 17, 2016
On a piece of notebook paper answer the following questions. You
may use your novel but you will only have 15 minutes. Journals on
desk for check
1984 Quiz chapters 1 and 2
1. Describe the setting of the opening of the novel (the condition
of city, the condition of Winston's apartment, ect.). What mood
does this setting create?
2. Describe the protagonist (name, appearance, occupation, state
of mind, etc.)
3. Why does Winston want to keep a diary, despite the danger?
4. Explain what happens during the Two Minutes Hate. What
effect does the Two Minutes of Hate have on the people?
Entry Task
Quiz review
2 minutes of Hate
• http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=two+minutes+of+hate+orwell&vie
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1984
Romantic (Poetry) Features
• Embraced imagination and naturalness.
• Preference for personal poetry that focused on experiences and
emotions in simple, unadorned language.
• Used lyric form to express feeling, self-revelation, and
imagination.
• Poets adopted a democratic attitude towards their audiences.
• Focused on the past or inner dream world to escape the ugly
industrial age
• Belief in individual liberty; rejection of tyranny
• Fascinated by the ways nature and the human mind “mirrored”
each other’s creative properties.
• Use of the supernatural
• Search/quest for “true” beauty
Romantics (add to notes)
Read the background information for William Blake (768). On the
back of the poem page:
List four aspects of his life you found interesting
Create chart
poem
Imagery
Songs of Innocence:
The Lamb
The Chimney
Sweeper
Songs of Experience:
The Tyger
The Chimney
Sweeper
William Blake
Symbol
Structure
Title
Does the title give a clue about the poem’s content?
Paraphrase
Put into your own words the literal action of the poem. What is this poem about?
Speaker Who is the speaker? Are the speaker and poet the same? Who is the audience. What is
the poet’s purpose?
Structure Is this free verse (open) or structured (closed)? What is the form? How does it affect
the poem’s meaning? Is it important to the poet’s message?
Figurative What poetic language is used: simile, metaphor, imagery, alliteration, etc…
Language
Attitude What is the speaker’s attitude towards the subject of the poem?
(Tone)
Shifts
Make note of a shift (change) in speaker, attitude, rhythm, punctuation, stanza length,
rhyme
Title
Examine the title again, this time trying to figure out its deeper meaning beyond just
being a title.
Theme What the poem is about (subject) + what the poet is saying about the subject = Theme
State the theme as a complete sentence. It is never one word.
TPSFASTT
Turn in your Entry Task and poems
H/W 1984 read pages 27 – 43 (Section One, III-IV) w/journal
entries (2 quotes and 2 higher level questions)
Homework