1. Honors British Literature
Week 1

2. Class 1: Objectives SWBAT… Understand the definition of Romanticism
Know what is Poetry Out Loud and how we will do POL in class
Browse poems

3. Romantic Poetry
Write:
What does it mean for something to be romantic?

4. Romanticism Statements
Read the statement and mark whether you agree or disagree with each one.

5. Romanticism Statements
Each of these statements represents an idea that the Romantic movement embodied
Knowing that, how has your idea about what is romantic changed?

6. Characteristics of Romanticism: 1

7. Characteristics of Romanticism: 1

8. Characteristics of Romanticism: 1
Interest in the common man and childhood
Romantics believed in the natural goodness of humans which is hindered by the urban life of civilization. They believed that the savage is noble, childhood is good and the emotions inspired by both beliefs causes the heart to soar.

9. Characteristics of Romanticism: 2

10. Characteristics of Romanticism: 2

11. Characteristics of Romanticism: 2
Interest in the common man and childhood
Strong senses, emotions, and feelings
Romantics believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction. This is best summed up by Wordsworth who stated that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

12. Characteristics of Romanticism: 3

13. Characteristics of Romanticism: 3

14. Characteristics of Romanticism: 3
Interest in the common man and childhood
Strong senses, emotions, and feelings
Awe of nature
Romantics stressed the awe of nature in art and language and the experience of sublimity through a connection with nature. Romantics rejected the rationalization of nature by the previous thinkers of the Enlightenment period.

15. Characteristics of Romanticism: 4

16. Characteristics of Romanticism: 4

17. Characteristics of Romanticism: 4
Interest in the common man and childhood
Strong senses, emotions, and feelings
Awe of nature
Celebration of the individual
Romantics valued people as unique, complex individuals. They often elevated the achievements of the misunderstood, heroic individual outcast.

18. Characteristics of Romanticism: 5

19. Characteristics of Romanticism: 5

20. Characteristics of Romanticism: 5
Interest in the common man and childhood
Strong senses, emotions, and feelings
Awe of nature
Celebration of the individual
Importance of imagination
Romantics valued imagination above reason as the highest faculty of the mind. Imagination was an active, creative act, which had the power to create reality.

21. Characteristics of Romanticism
Interest in the common man and childhood
Strong senses, emotions, and feelings
Awe of nature
Celebration of the individual
Importance of imagination
How are they like and unlike…
The literature we read in semester 1?
The things our society values now?

22. Transition Ticket Write down, in your own words (3 sentences or less):
What does it mean for something to be romantic?

23. What is Poetry Out Loud?
A national competition for high school students
More than 3 million students have participated
Students memorize and recite poetry
Starts with a class competition (yes, you will be graded on your recitation)
Class winners compete in a school-wide
competition at the end of January.

24. Example Recitations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgGIDij7gqI

25. Why Memorize and Recite Poetry?
From POL: “Why should I study this poem, let alone try to learn it by heart?
….“Because it is a chance to make a friend for life.”

26. How are you evaluated? Physical Presence Voice and Articulation
Eye contact
Body language
Poise
Voice and Articulation
Volume
Pace
Rhythm
Intonation
Pronunciation

27. How are you evaluated? Dramatic Appropriateness
Interpretive and performance choices made by the student
Conveying the poem’s sense through its language
Evidence of Understanding
Comprehension and mastery of the poem
Saying the poem in a way that helps the audience understand it better

28. How are you evaluated? Overall performance Accuracy
Overall success of your recitation
Complexity of the poem is also considered
Accuracy
Points are deducted for missed or incorrect words

29. Poem Options www.poetryoutloud.org Banned poems:
“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
“Catch a Little Rhyme” by Eve Merriam
“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
Any poem with 10 lines or less (12 if the lines are short)
Participants on choosing poems: performance/watch-video/choose-poems

30. Tips for Memorizing Poems
Rewrite your poem by hand several times. Each time, try to write more and more of it from memory.
Read your poem aloud before going to sleep at night, and repeat it when you wake up.
Carry around a copy of your poem. You’ll find several moments throughout the day to reread or recite it.
Practice your poem by saying it to family and friends.

31. Homework
Choose a poem and start to memorize it. Our class contest will take place class 2 next week.

32. Class 2: Objectives SWBAT… Go over final exams
Explore a Romantic definition of poetry
Read and analyze a Romantic poem
Create a POL timeline

33. Final exams

34. Defining Poetry
What is poetry?

35. Wordsworth’s Definition
“the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
How close is that to your definition?
What are the 5 characteristics of Romanticism from last class?
How well does this definition fit with those characteristics?

36. Romantic Poetry
What would you expect from a Romantic poem about this image?

37. Romantic Poetry William Wordsworth: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Level 1: What is the poem literally saying?

38. Romantic Poetry
Level 2: What features of the poem can help us understand other layers of meaning?
Alliteration
Personification
Assonance
Simile
Caesura
Metaphor
End Rhyme
Imagery
Internal Rhyme
Diction
Enjambment
Syntax
Meter
Repetition

39. Homework
Print or write down your poem and bring it to class

40. Class 3: Objectives SWBAT…
Finish analyzing “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”
Analyze and come to better understand your POL poem
Practice evaluating a poem recitation
Practice reciting your poem out loud to a partner

41. I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
Level 3: Where in the poem can we see a shift?
Look for:
key words, (but, yet, however, although)
punctuation (dashes, periods, colons, ellipsis)
stanza divisions
changes in line or stanza length or both
changes in sound that may indicate changes in meaning
changes in diction

42. Romantic Poetry
Overall, what does this poem tell us, and how?

43. Poetry Analysis Take out your POL poem
Level 1: What is the poem literally saying?
Level 2: What features of the poem can help us understand other layers of meaning?
Level 3: Where in the poem can we see a shift?
Is your poem Romantic? Why or why not?

44. Poetry Out Loud: Recitation
performance/watch-video/recitation-tips
Look at Evaluation Criteria

45. Poetry Out Loud: Timeline
How many days do we have before our class competition?
What are some intermediate deadlines you can set for yourself to have your poem ready for our competition?
Work on your memorization timeline and have your chosen poem out for me to record!

46. Poetry Out Loud
Take out the packet with the scoring rubric on the front
Practice evaluating a (Romantic) poem recitation
Turn to “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

47. Poetry Out Loud
Practice reading or reciting out loud for your partner.
Partners: give feedback on the reading/recitation.
Did you notice any mistakes?
How is your partner’s physical presence?
How is your partner’s voice and articulation?
What suggestions do you have to improve your partner’s dramatic appropriateness?
Does it sound like your partner understands the poem?
What other suggestions do you have?

48. Homework Write an informal 1-page description of:
why you chose your poem
what your poem is about
what is below the surface of your poem
Keep up with your memorization schedule!