AP Literature
OCTOBER 20TH
Agenda
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Checking extra credit vocabulary flashcards
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Checking Vocabulary 1-10 Unit 4 words – Frayer Cards
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Vocabulary Activity 11-20 Unit 4 words-types of sentences
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Explicate six poems in groups from Chapter 3 & review as a class
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Checking Completion of Chapter 3 Questions for the following
poems:
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Accounting
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35/10
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Tree Heart/True Heart
Vocabulary 11-20 – checking XC,
Frayer cards, and poetry homework.
Directions
Words
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Using two of the vocabulary words,
write a simple sentence for each.
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Irrevocable
propensity
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Using two of the vocabulary words,
write a compound sentence for each.
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Querulous
remonstrate
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Repudiate
resilient
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Reverberate
scurrilous
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Sedulous
sleazy
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Using three of the vocabulary words,
write a complex sentence for each.
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Using three of the vocabulary words,
write a compound-complex sentence
for each.
Chapter 3 Poems
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assigned groups, annotate
and discuss each poem. Discuss
your annotations and be ready
to answer questions in discussion.
Cross
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speaker is a “cross (literal) between
black and white, and this is the “cross”
(metaphorical) that he has to bear. There
is also an overtone of the adjectival
meaning “angry” in the title.
The world is too much with us
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Sonnet juxtaposing 19th Century Christian English faith in industrial
development and mercantile values with a primitive faith in the pagan
deities of nature.
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Conflict between Christ and Pan
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Identifies Christianity with modern materialism and urban insensitivity to
nature.
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Speaker identifies with the modern age, but wishes he could be a pagan
despite the fact that the beliefs of ancient Greece are “outworn.”
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Opening quatrain abstractly generalizes. It contrasts the presumed power
of trade with the internal power of the imagination, and declares that the
real cost of a materialistic value system is our hearts.
The world is too much with us
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Second quatrain sets the scene. Speaker personifies sea and winds as
representing the speaker’s attempt to display his own sensitive imagemaking powers-but his images tend toward triteness. (tone is changed to
straightforward colloquialism)
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As a transition from octave to sestet, these lines appear to give up the
attempt to counter crass materialism with poetic originality.
Line 9-speaker swears by God his preference for a pagan creed. Can only
summon up a glimpse of these nature gods, ironically created for him by
great Christian English poets of the past. (Many allusions made to Spenser,
Colin, and Milton)
The world is too much with us
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Desiring to reach backward to a natural
paganism, the speaker must rely on his Christian
poetic heritage.
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He realizes that he cannot hold such beliefs and
is wistful about the “outworn” but imaginative
mythological personifications of sea and wind,
representing a lost harmony between man and
nature.
Tree Heart/True Heart
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Analogy between the hearts of trees and those of human beings.
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Argument is that time and growth cause the tree hearts to be “serially
displaced”
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Like steadfast human hearts, the speaker implies, tree hearts are to
acquiescent to natural forces of change.
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A true heart does not give way to spring.
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The speaker is one whose beloved is absent, despite this absence, the
speaker’s heart is true.
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The final two lines express directly what has been suggested all along-that
despite the passing of seasons, including the season of love and renewal, the
speaker remains true to the beloved.
Homework
 Homework:
Read Chapter 4 Imagery pgs.
54-57
 Spring, The widow’s lament in springtime, I
felt a funeral in my brain (you do not have to
do questions)-reading quiz tomorrow.
 Finish vocabulary sentences.