DATE:
BLOCK:
Thursday, May 7, 2015
1 (AP Lit & Comp)
WORK COLLECTED/CHECKED/DUE:
1. Read pages 25 to 58 (chapters 1 through 6) in Frankenstein and complete a Reading
Journal
CLASSWORK:
1. AP Testing Window continues through Friday, May 15th
2. Question of the Day sheet for the week of May 4, 2015 (#89)
 Open journal question (#86): How does Elizabeth enter Victor’s life? (Shelley
24)
3. Daily Edits Set #13, sentence #4 (#91)
4. Frankenstein Personal Responsibility (#92)
 If you were absent Tuesday, please fill this out, as we will refer back to this
handout at the end of or after the unit.
5. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (#94)
 Four groups:
 Group #1: Paige Coacher, Julie Cohen, Gabrielle Ferrara, Julia Magidson, and
Meagan Weisgerber
 Group #2: Danielle Bannan, Rebecca Houston, Katie Lista, Steph Manning,
and Abbey Romano
 Group #3: Joe Edler, Mark Edler, Jake Savitz, Kevin Toal, Julian Anderson,
 Group #4: Julia Barbuto, Jamila James, Seul Jung, Emily Wolfe, Jake Wolfe
 There are seven parts to the poem
 Each person in your group should read one of the parts aloud in its entirety. For
the remaining part(s), take turns reading the stanzas
 For each part, the group must develop/identify
 One thought-provoking question
 One exceptional literary device (entire literary device, line number(s), and
explanation (not definition) of the literary device)
 Yesterday, groups should read the Latin (and translation in the Glossary), read the
Argument, and answered the question about the Argument as a group.
 Background information on Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 October 21st is the birthday of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
born in Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, England (1772). He was the youngest
of 14 children, precocious and introverted. He studied at Cambridge, but he
struggled there, and dropped out to join the cavalry. He did as poorly as a
soldier as he had as a student, and his brothers ended up getting him
discharged by reason of insanity.
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He was a very ambitious young man, who lectured on religion, wrote
journalism, and single-handedly tried to launch his own magazine.
At Cambridge, Coleridge struck up an intense friendship with the poet Robert
Southey, and the two men devised a plan to move to Pennsylvania and start a
utopian community. Marriage was key to this utopia, so when Southey got
engaged, Coleridge married the sister of Southey's fiancée, but they had a
deeply unhappy marriage. Then Southey abandoned the utopia idea and
decided to become a lawyer instead. Coleridge was devastated. He wrote to
Southey: "You have left a large void in my heart — I know no man big
enough to fill it." Shortly after that, Coleridge made a pilgrimage to visit the
poet William Wordsworth. The Wordsworths were outside gardening, and
they looked up to see an excited figure jump over their fence and literally run
toward them through the vegetables. Coleridge and Wordsworth became close
friends, and both families moved to the village of Grasmere to be near each
other. Wordsworth encouraged Coleridge to stop writing journalism and focus
on poetry, and Coleridge took the advice.
The two men went for daily walks over the hills, discussing poetry. That first
year of their friendship was the most productive period of Coleridge's life.
They both liked to compose their poetry while walking, so they took long
walks together throughout that summer, though Wordsworth preferred to stay
on the path while Coleridge liked rough terrain. That winter, they spent
several days hiking along the coast, and to pass the time, they made up a
gothic ballad about a tragic sea voyage. Coleridge became obsessed with the
poem when he got home, filling it with images from nightmares he'd had since
he was a kid.
Together, Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote the book Lyrical Ballads (1798),
which included Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and Coleridge's masterpiece,
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Between the fall of 1797 and the spring of
1798, a period when he saw Wordsworth daily and smoked a lot of opium,
Coleridge wrote his most famous poems: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner,"
"Kubla Khan," "Christabel," and "Frost at Midnight."
Within a few years of writing "Ancient Mariner," Coleridge's life began to fall
apart. He became addicted to opium, which ruined his friendship with
Wordsworth. He had a habit of starting enormous projects that he could not
then finish, including a 1,400-page work of geography, a two-volume history
of English prose, a translation of Faust, a musical about Adam and Eve, a
history of logic, a history of German metaphysics, a study of witchcraft, and
an encyclopedia.
His friends hated the fact that he had wasted so much of his talent. They'd all
considered him the most brilliant writer and thinker they'd ever known, but he
accomplished so little. Near the end of his life, his friend Charles Lamb wrote
of Coleridge: "His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an
Archangel a little damaged."
Coleridge said, "A great poet [...] must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in
the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of
an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man
feeling the face of a darling child."
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And, "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions
of prose and poetry: that is, Prose — words in their best order; Poetry — the
best words in the best order."
Today, ONE student in each group read PART ONE aloud. Each group answered
and discussed the PART ONE questions together. Thirty minutes before class
discussion of the plot points in PART ONE.
HANDOUTS/NOTEBOOK UPDATE:
1. Sample AP exam (#5)
2. Method to the Madness of Metaphors (#47)
3. Elements of a Sonnet (#48)
4. Sonnet 18 (#49)
5. Sonnet I (#50)
6. Tone (#56)
7. Poem-in-your-pocket Day Poem (#84)
8. Frankenstein schedule (#85)
9. Frankenstein reading journals (#86)
10. Frankenstein historical background (#87)
11. Frankenstein doppelganger and dichotomy (#88)
12. Question of the Day sheet for the week of May 4, 2015 (#89)
13. Daily Edits Set #12 review paragraph (#90)
14. Daily Edits Set #13 (#91)
15. Frankenstein Personal Responsibility (#92)
16. Frankenstein Desire (#93)
17. Frankenstein: Rime of the Ancient Mariner activities (#94)
ASSIGNMENTS/REMINDERS:
1. Friday, May 8, 2015: Read pages 59 to 92 (chapters 7 through 11) in Frankenstein
and complete a Reading Journal
2. Monday, May 11, 2015 through Friday, May 22, 2015: Standardized Quiz #2 window
3. Monday, May 11, 2015: Read pages 93 to 123 (chapters 12 through 16) in
Frankenstein and complete a Reading Journal
4. Tuesday, May 12, 2015: Read pages 125 to 156 (chapters 17 through 21) in
Frankenstein and complete a Reading Journal
5. Wednesday, May 13, 2015: Keystones Literature Exam Day One
6. Wednesday, May 13, 2015: Read pages 157 to 186 (chapters 22 through 24) in
Frankenstein and complete a Reading Journal
7. Thursday, May 14, 2015: Keystones Literature Exam Day Two
8. Friday, May 15, 2015: Probable date for the Frankenstein test
9. Friday, May 15, 2015: Keystones Biology Exam Day One
10. Monday, May 18, 2015: Keystones Biology Exam Day Two
11. Tuesday, May 19, 2015: No school (in-service day for teachers)
12. Wednesday, May 20, 2015: Keystones Algebra Exam Day One
13. Thursday, May 21, 2015: Keystones Algebra Exam Day Two
14. Friday, May 22, 2015: Keystones make up day