1. Tuesday, March 8  Social Media Projects are graded, they were all really good!  Journalistic Essay and Birth of the Modern Novel  Homework:  Read Book 4, pages 148-160  Work on Hamlet essay

2. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” - Alexander Pope Enlightenment Literature

3. Journalistic Essay  New literary genre  Social criticism  Middle class audience  London’s population and literacy rate  Prose essays and editorials published in magazines and daily newspapers  Tatler and Spectator  Shift from poetic prose to more informal prose  Like conversations in salons and cafés

4. Birth of the Modern Novel  Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe  Based on actual experience  Appealed to same audience as journalistic essay

5. The Adventures of a Shilling By Joseph Addison  Read and then write a journal response.  If you need some guidance, try to answer this question: What can Addison’s essay tell us about the Enlightenment?