Poems and Places
Imagined landscapes in British Romantic Poetry

Syllabus for Periods One and Five

Class Number	Date	Topic	Classwork	Homework
1	April 4	Romanticism and its Contexts	Introduction to the Romantic Period. Introduction to On-line curriculum components and resources. Assign Romantic Circles' Student Accounts. Review the Romantic Circles High School Guide to Evaluating World Wide Web Resources.	Read William Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Lamb." Do Assignment 1.
2	April 6	William Blake	Discuss William Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Lamb"	Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison," and "Frost at Midnight." Do Assignment 2.
3	April 10	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Discuss Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison," and "Frost at Midnight."	Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Do Assignment 3.
4	April 12		Discuss Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere."	Read William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and Excerpt from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal, April 15. Do Assignment 4.
5	April 14	William and Dorothy Wordsworth	Discuss William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and Excerpt from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal, April 15.	Read William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." Do Assignment 5.
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6	April 25	William and Dorothy Wordsworth Continued	Discuss William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." Work in groups to create short-list of framing questions for Rime of the Ancyent Marinere Rooms.	Read John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale." Do Assignment 6.
7	April 27	John Keats	Discuss John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale."	Read excerpt from John Keats's "Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind." Do Assignment 7.
8	May 1	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Discuss excerpt from John Keats's "Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind."	Do Assignment 8.
9	May 3	Final Projects	Lab time to work on final projects.	Work on final projects.
10	May 5	Final Projects	Lab time to work on final projects.	Work on final projects.
11	May 9	Final Projects	Lab time to work on final projects.	Work on final projects.
12	May 11	Presentations and Paper Assignments	Literature Fair. Assign Unit Wrap-Up.	Do Unit Wrap-Up assignment. (Due May 15th.)