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.
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Coming up: thematic essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's narrative poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". This will be due on Wednesday, December 20.
In class: Please hand in the "Mariner" assessment from yesterday. If you were absent, you need to make arrangements to complete the work. The assessment may be completed any time during the day or after school on Tuesday or Thursday in the library.
If you missed yesterday's
vocabulary quiz, you may make that up as well any period during the day you are free (let me give you a pass) or after school on Tuesday or Thursday in the library.
Today: everyone take out your "Mariner" graphic organizer.
handout out for "Mariner" essay (copy below) We are reviewing the criterion for the essay. You will choose your thematic topic today. Write this on the top of your graphic organizer. You will then find a minimum of 10 examples with the poem to support your theme. Underline these (they will be part of the grading for the organizer). Tomorrow you should plan on writing your introduction.
Themes:
- The Natural World (It can be beautiful
and frightening and powerful) (often simultaneously),
- The Spiritual World: The
Metaphysical (The poem occurs in the natural, physical world-the land and
ocean. However, the work has popularly been interpreted as an allegory of
man's connection to the spiritual, metaphysical world.
- Liminality-"The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner" typifies the Romantic fascination with
liminal spaces. A liminal space is defined as a place on the edge of a
realm or between two realms, whether a forest and a field, or reason and
imagination.
- Imprisonment-"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is in many ways a portrait of
imprisonment and its inherent loneliness and torment.
- Retribution-The poem is a
tale of retribution, since the Ancient Mariner spends most of the poem
paying for his one, impulsive error of killing the Albatross.
Other missing work? Periods 6 and 9 wrote on the following on Monday. If you have not already done so, make sure turn this in. The assignment is only on the blog (another copy below). You may send it directly to me: 2006630@rcsd121.org
Below is the final stanza of the poem. Explain
what has just occurred (reread 131 to 144, if you are unsure) and explain what is meant in this stanza. Address especially, "a sadder and a wiser man."
He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
Also: from Monday....Do you have these terms in your notebooks? You must use them in your essay.
1. didactic- adjective meaning something that is meant to teach
2. picturesque-adjective- visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.
3. sublime- Noun- something that elevates to a high degree of moral or spiritual purity or excellence.
4. awe- noun- a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Expository essay
assignment. Due Wednesday, December 20
by the end of the day. If you receive an extension, this is due on
Thursday.
What is an expository
essay? This genre of essay requires you to investigate an idea, evaluate
evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea
in a clear and concise manner. This is exactly what you have done with Hamlet
.
Your
assignment: Select one of the themes that is developed in “The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner” and show how various figurative language devices are used to
develop the idea. (possible techniques
used: symbolism, imagery*, personification, metaphors, similes, allusions and
sound sense (alliteration, consonance, assonance)
Directions: minimum 400 words, 5 paragraphs, Times New
Roman, size 12 font, MLA heading, work cited of “Mariner” (look up one on line
and use citation machine), cite your text by stanza number, include the
Romantic terms within your text. (these are below, in your notebooks and on the
blog).
Introduction:
Begin with your
hook sentence that is a general statement about the topic. Consider a synopsis
of the plot and establish the setting as a flashback.
Include in
the introduction genre (poem in this case), author / poet Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, and the title of the narrative poem “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”
A clear, concise, and well-defined thesis statement that
precisely indicates what you will be writing about in the three body
paragraphs. .
Minimum 3 body paragraphs
Each paragraph must include textual evidence. Weave in the
text. Use quotations. Cite by stanza number.
Eg. “The Mariner
hath his will” (Mariner 4).
Make sure that within each body paragraph you have a
controlling idea, support / evidence for your statement and very importantly an
analysis statement. Why or how is what you say significant and how it
contributes to the development of the theme.
Conclusion: A conclusion that does not simply restate the
thesis, but readdresses it in light of the evidence provided. This is where you
show in what way this poem exemplifies Romanticism.
The following terms must be used within your essay.
Important concepts
associated with Romanticism (these terms
must appear in your essay)
1. didactic- adjective
meaning something that is meant to teach
2.
picturesque-adjective- visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty
style.
3. sublime- Noun-
something that elevates to a high degree of moral or spiritual purity or
excellence.
4. awe- noun- a feeling
of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.
*5. epiphany- noun- a
usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning
of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of
reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or
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