Torrey Pines High School

Mr. Martin's English 12 Romantic Literature Unit



Poems and Places
Imagined landscapes in British Romantic Poetry

Syllabus for Period Two



A Romantic Circles High School Curriculum Module





Class
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  Date   Topic Classwork Homework
1 April 5 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 7 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 11 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 13
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.
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5 April 24 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.
6 April 26 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 28 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 2 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 4 Final Projects
Lab time to work on final projects.
Work on final projects.
10 May 8 Final Projects
Lab time to work on final projects.
Work on final projects.
11 May 10 Final Projects
Lab time to work on final projects.
Work on final projects.
12 May 12 Presentations and Paper Assignments
Literature Fair.
Assign Unit Wrap-Up.
Do Unit Wrap-Up assignment. (Due May 16th.)




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