Semester 1 & 2 Reading List.

Literature 12                                                                                                            

Loconte

Reading List

Week of January 7

·         Johnson: Definitions from Johnson’s Dictionary p 420

·         Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard p 433

Week of January 14

·         Burns: To a Mouse p 440

·         Blake:  The Lamb p 444, The Tiger p 446

·         The Eighteenth Century: The Novel p 449

·         The Growth of the English Language p 450

Week of January 21

·         Review of Restoration & 18^th Century

·         The Romantic Age 1798- 1832: History p 455

·         Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold p 485, The World is Too Much With Us p 488

Week of January 28

·         Exam Week: Unit Test for Restoration & 18^th Century

Week of February 4

·         Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner p 494

Week of February 11

·         Byron: Apostrophe to the Ocean p 531

·         Shelley: Ozymandias p 544,  Ode to the West Wind p 546

·         Keats: When I have fears that I May Cease to Be p 559

Week of February 18

·         Keats: Ode to a Nightingale p 575

·         The Romantic Age: The Growth of the English Language p 595

·         Review/ Test

Week of February 25

·         Victorian Age 1832- 1900: History p 599

·         Tennyson: Ulysses p 626, Crossing the Bar p 637

·         Browning: My Last Duchess 640

Week of March 4

·         Browning: Prospice p 645

·         Arnold: Dover Beach p 650

·         Hardy: The Darkling Thrush p 653, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? P 654

·         A.E Housman: To an Athlete Dying Young p 664, Is my Team Ploughing  p665

Week of April 1

·         Browning: Sonnet 43  p 669

·         Bronte: Song p 672

·         Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest p 712

Week of April 8

·         Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest p 712

·         The English Novel in The Nineteenth Century p 752

·         The Growth of the English Language: Victorian Age p 754

Week of April 15

·         Unit Test

·         Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare p 422

·         Shakespeare: Hamlet

Week of April 22- May 20

·         Shakespeare: Hamlet

Week of May 27

·         The Modern Age History p 761-773

·          Yeats: The Second Coming p 935

·         Eliiot: The Hollow Men p 952

Week of June 3

·         Smith: Pretty p 961

·         Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night p 979

·         Atwood: Siren Song p 1000

·         The English Novel: The Modern Age p 1075

·         The Growth of the English Language: The Modern Age p 1077

Week of June 10:   >>>>>>You made it! REVIEW WEEK<<<<<

Sem 1 reading list

One exam away from eternal freedom folks!

We are one step away from crossing that finish line, nice work everyone! The final exam will be on everything on our reading list plus pages 1075 and 1077 which we did not study in class. The following is the structure of the exam in case you missed it. Happy studying!


Lit 12 Final Exam

Multiple Choice - 23 questions (23 marks): Poems
Paragraph Response - 1 question (15 marks): Unfamilar Passage
Long Passages - 2 choices, pick 1 (20 marks): Hamlet
Written Response - 1 question (10 marks): Importance of Being Earnest
Essay - 1 (20 marks): General Topic

Total /88

#WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

HEY-O.

So, last class we officially concluded our Hamlet study with a rather lengthy Unit Test. Our homework for our next class is to finish (or start) your Hamlet essays and read up on the History of the Modern Age (no questions!) so dust off that big ol' green mONSTER OF A TexTBoOK and brush up on some LIT HISTORY.
THE REST IS SILENCE.

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Hamlet for You

Friday's Notes

When I asked Brittany to read she said,' I don't know who I am."

I started to quote Hamlet. Here is that quote in its entirety:

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”

Act. 4. Scene 5