Honors British Literature: November 2015

November 23
Herbert
"Redemption"
"Love"
"Easter Wings"
Write a shaped verse or diagram "Redemption." Post it to your blog with the title "Carmen Figuration" or "Redemption Allegory" (feel free to write it out legibly and scan it in as an image). Please also look ahead at tomorrow's assignment

November 24
Skype meeting at 8pm
Milton

From Paradise Lost

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

November 25

Sonnets 7, 18, and 19
Genesis 1
Milton Reading Score

November 26-27

Thanksgiving Break

Resources
Student example of Herbert's "Denial"
Paradise Lost Study Guide
Darkness Visible

Paradise Lost: The Poem

November 16 - 20

November 16
Stuart Introduction

November 17

Skype meeting at 8pm

Bacon

Bonus Opportunity

Create a flyer with the quotation you believe to be the most significant from "Of Studies" and post it by 8pm. Embed it to your blog with the subject line "Of Studies" and explain why you believe it to be so significant

November 18

Donne
Create a video response to one of the prompts below. Post your response to your blog with the title "Donne Video Response." (This is a simple video recording -less than three minutes - that may use a web cam, point and shoot, or even a camera phone. No editing is required unless I can't understand what you're saying.)

Philosophy - Having read Donne's work, record a personal response to his philosophy

Celebrity humanitarian work - Celebrities have been sponsoring and promoting humanitarian work in a seemingly effective way. Give some examples and share your thoughts on this

Advertisement - Find a humanitarian work that you'd like to support or start and create an advertisement for it

"I Am a Rock" - Check out Simon and Garfunkel's 1965 hit and write a song in response

"If Everyone Cared" - Listen to Nickelback's song and write a song in response

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne

November 19

Jonson
Jonson Document

November 20

Hanalani Writes

November 9 - 13

November 9

The Faerie Queene
Create a cartoon strip that represents your reading of The Faerie Queene selection (only Book I: Of Holiness) and post it to your blog with the subject line "Faerie Queene Animation"

November 10

Skype meeting at 8pm

SparkNotes' Macbeth (Plot Overview; Analysis of Major Characters; Themes, Motifs & Symbols)

Bonus Opportunity

Complete one (or both) of the assignments below by 8pm and evidence your work with a blog post.

Download Macbeth on Google Lit Trips and complete the Lit Trip. Take at least five screen shots to evidence your "trip" and embed them (select the smallest size) on your blog with the subject line "Macbeth"
Macbeth Doc

November 11
Veterans' Day

November 12

Shakespeare
Sonnets - 18, 73, 116, and 146; Shakespeare Form
Create a Wordle of Shakespeare's works (feel free to Google for a list of his works, but don't forget to credit sources; please use the tidle (~) to keep the works together) and upload the image to your blog with the subject line "Shakespeare's Works"

November 13
Hanalani Writes

Resources

The Scottish Referendum
BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales
OpenSource Shakespeare
Insults by Shakespeare
Shakespeare Uncovered
In Search of Shakespeare
Maximum Shakespeare: An online discussion of the playwright and his works
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Tragedies; Everybody Dies

November 2 - 6

November 2
Marlowe (video and text)
Doctor Faustus
"Marlowe and Faustus"

November 3-4

SOTF Conference for Faculty

November 5

Spenser
From Amoretti - Sonnet 68, 75, and 79
Diagram one of the sonnets. Embed it to your blog with the subject line "Sonnet 68" (or the number of the sonnet you select)

Bonus Opportunity
Complete the assessment on love languages (take the singles one) and post the results to your blog with the subject line "Love Languages"

November 6
Hanalani Writes

Resources

Spenser Online