Major assignments and point values:
Close Reading Assignment (due lesson 7): 150 points **See below options for poetry selection**
Creative Writing Assignment (due lesson 16): 125 points
Literary Autobiography (due lesson 21): 100 points
Dramatic Reading (performed lessons 29/30): 100 points **See below options for Dramatic Reading**
Shakespeare Essay (due lesson 33): 175 points
Instructor assignments:
Classroom Presentation (varies–see schedule links for E – F – K – L): 50 points
Poetry Quiz (lesson 19): 20 points **See below terms & topics**
DRAMATIC READING SELECTION OPTIONS:
PROSPERO:
1.) p. 3068 Lines 89-106, 108-116 (29 lines)
I pray thee mark me…And executing th’outward face of royalty
To have no screen between…To most ignoble stooping.
2.) p. 3100 Lines 1-11, 13-23 (22 lines)
If I have too austerely punished you,…And make it halt behind her.
Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition…As Hymen’s lamps shall light you.
3.) p. 3104 Lines 146-163 (17 lines)
You do look, my son, in a moved sort,…To still my beating mind.
4.) p. 3107 Lines 33-57 (24 lines)
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves…I’ll drown my book.
5.) p. 3110 Lines 155-173 (18 lines)
In this last tempest. I perceive these lords…At least bring forth a wonder to content ye As much as me my dukedom.
6.) p. 3115 Epilogue Lines 1-20 (20 lines)
Now my charms are all o’erthrown, …Let your indulgence set me free
CALIBAN:
7.) p. 3074-75 Lines 324-327, 333-347, 352-354, 366-368 (25 lines)
As wicked dew as e’er… And blister you all o’er!
I must eat my dinner…The rest o’th’island.
O ho, O ho! Wouldn’t had been done! …This isle with Calibans.
You taught me language… For learning me your language!
8.) p. 3095 Lines 82-98, 99-100 (18 lines)
Why, as I told thee, ‘tis a custom with him…As great’st does least.
Ay, Lord…And bring thee forth brave brood.
ARIEL:
9.) p. 3071 Lines 190-194, 196-207, 209-216 (25 lines)
All hail, great master, grave sir, hail. I come..Ariel and all his quality.
To every article…Yea, his dread trident shake.
Not a soul…And all devils are here
10.) p. 3098-99 Lines 53-82 (29 lines)
You are three men of sin, whom destiny-… And a clear life ensuing.
TRINCULO:
11.) p. 3087 Lines 18-38 (20 lines)
Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any … Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past.
FERDINAND:
12.) p. 3092 Lines 37-48, 59-67, 68-73 (26 lines)
Admired Miranda!…Of every creature’s best.
I am in my condition…Am I this patient log-man.
O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound…Do love, prize, honour you
“FAIR GAME” for POETRY QUIZ:
Poetic Categories: lyric, dramatic, narrative/epic
Primary Verse Forms: villanelle, sestina, pantoum, sonnet, ballad, blank verse, heroic couplet, stanza
Primary Poetic Forms: elegy, pastoral, ode, open forms/free verse
Rhythm & Meter/Prosody: poetic feet – iamb, anapest, trochee, dactyl, spondee; lines – monometer, diameter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter
Other Related and Frequently Used Poetic Terms: allusion, anaphora, caesura, end-stopping, enjambment, figure of thought, figure of speech, imagery, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, persona, personification, simile, synecdoche, symbol
Ovid: Be familiar with the myths we have covered in class; I’d pay particular attention to creation & flood myths, Apollo & Daphne, Actaeon & Diana…
POETRY SELECTIONS for CLOSE READING ASSIGNMENT:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight” p. 488
John Keats, “To Autumn” p. 587
Walt Whitman “A Noiseless Patient Spider” p. 702
Emily Dickenson, 591 (465) “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” p.727
William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” p. 774
Stephen Crane, from The Black Riders and Other Lines (focus on one) p. 792
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, “Sympathy” p. 795
Dylan Thomas, “Fern Hill” p. 989
E.E. Cummings “anyone lived in a pretty how town” p. 896
Charles Simie, “Prodigy” p. 1174
Seamus Heaney, “Digging” p. 1179
Robert Pinsky “ABC” p. 1189
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