Friday, December 8 Finishing "Mariner"

Learning targets: 1) I can read, annotate, and analyze informational texts on topics related to diverse and non-traditional cultures and viewpoints. 

 2) I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative connotative, and technical meanings; and analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone 

3) I can determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis and an objective summary of the text. 

Coming up: vocabulary quiz Wednesday, December 13

In class: continuing the reading with "Mariner"....if you were absent, please make sure you have completed the work. That does not just mean filling in the annotations, but actually reading and understanding the material. You will be writing on this!   

Having difficulties?  See me after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the library. Also...there are many, many resources on line to help you understand the material.

Very important: remember to approach the poem under the umbrella of Romanticism:

  Qualities of Romanticism

Love of Nature

Idealization of Rural Living
Faith in Common People
Emphasis on Freedom and Individualism
Spontaneity, intuition, feeling, imagination, wonder
Passionate individual religiosity
Life after death
Organic view of the World

Period 3: Take out your "Mariner" graphic organizers and turn to stanza 52.

Periods 6 and 9: Take out your "Mariner" graphic organizers and turn to stanza 85

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Vocabulary quiz, Wednesday, December 13

    1.kin (noun)- one's family and relations.

 2.  kirk (noun)- church (most often used in Scotland)

  3.   tyrannous (adjective)- unjustly severe  (think of a tyrant)

   4.    prow (noun)- the portion of a ship's bow above water.

    5.shroud (noun)- a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial;          a thing that envelops

         6. to aver (verb)- state or assert to be the case.

7       7. furrow (noun)- long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow or a rut or groove; note that you may have a furrow (noun) on your brow and you may furrow (verb) your brow

8        8.   agape (adjective) -     agog, wide open, especially with surprise or wonder; gobsmacked

         9.   gossamers (noun)- a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs; used to refer to something very light, delicate. (think fairy wings)

1      10. spectre-bark (noun)    - ghost ship

         11. vespers (noun)- the sixth of the canonical hours (times one was required to pray)

 12. skiff (noun)- a flat bottomed boat.