Indicents

Odyssey

• introduce expectations and discourse
• Greek Humanism: the assertion of the individual human's capacity to do and to dare
• Aegean & Homeric Greece
• Epic
• Hero
• Art of the Storyteller
• Nature of Drama

• AP multiple choice
• AP prompt (writing)
• Discourse
• Vocabulary
• Notetaking skills

Odyssey, cont.

Oedipus Rex

Antigone

• Drama: definition, 3 tools
• Tragedy: define & review Oedipus Rex
• Antigone: tragedy?

• Odyssey paper
• Vocabulary
• websites of Ancient Greece: websites of Ancient Greek Theater

Odyssey, finish

Genesis

Job

• Jewish & Christian religions: the assertion of supreme divine power and dominion over man
• Adam & Eve -- heroes of a condensed epic?
• Exploring the nature of God and relationship between man & God
• Compare Greek hero to biblical hero
• Job: faith vs. conventional wisdom

• Antigone paper
• Vocabulary
• Lit circles
• websites of images of Adam & Eve: websites of early Mesopotamian civilizations

Job, finish

Gospel of Luke

• Luke poet = storyteller
• Myths explain mysteries, justify human behavior, and show society
• Jesus = hero? tragic hero? epic hero?
• PSAT test prep

• Vocabulary
• Lit circles
• websites of scenes from Luke

PSAT

Beowulf

• Epic values = handbook for princes
• Very early English history
• Old English
• Pagan Atlantic Humanism (compare to Greek)

• PSAT
• Job paper
• Review Vocab Test
• websites about Beowulf

Havelok

Tristan & Isolt

• Anglo-Saxon history
• Early Medieval history
• Courtly love

• Vocabulary
• Lit circles
• websites showing art of courtly love

• Later Medieval history
• Middle English
• Comedy
• Satire

• Vocabulary
• websites about Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer, finish

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

• Background on Pearl Poet
• Successful story? Successful dramatist?
• Epitome of chivalric knight tradition?

• Chivalric Knight paper
• Exam review
• Term Vocab Test

The Second Shepherd's Pageant

• Discuss fall exam, review the medival mind                           intro vocab #7

              belief (religion over humanism);

• social order paramount over individual;

• simple will inherit the earth;

• multiple worlds existing simultaneously in even very early English theater ;

   

• imagination over reason;

• nature of goodness & power is divine;

• humans lived up to God's expectations of them;

• history of liturgical drama;

• review of comedy

 Everyman

• Drama: definition, 3 tools
• Tragedy: define & review

• O

Doctor Faustus

• Four key points of English Renaissance:

  • humanism = rediscovered Classical lit was centered on individual;

  • worldly/earthly power = power we have & power that affects us;

  • neoplatonic search for earthly perfection;

  • ideal of courtier (definitely not chivalric knight).

Doctor Faustus

Hamlet

• Trace our opinion of Faustus as the action works itself out.

• This opinion will define our decision about tragedy.

  Is Faustus a successful play?

• Hamlet: explain courtier (evolution from chivalric knight). Characteristics (renaissaince humanism) include: warrior skills & athletic prowess, though not dominant element; can function at court with people; social, political role; knowledge of the arts; social skills; concern for, respect for others; intelligence                        self-control.
• Hamlet as a good play (Shakespeare at his height);
• Hamlet as a tragic hero;
• Hamlet as 17-18 years old.

Hamlet

• what is the attitude of revenge and justice toward society and its institutions?   

• Reconsider four points of renaissance ideas;

• Is there a sense of order?

• Hamlet as created through comparisons with other characters;

• Assertion of self: from boy to hero without external supports.

Twelfth Night & Much Ado About Nothing

• Twelfth Night: Examine three plot lines;

• Apppreciate motifs: disguise & masking;

• Relize that all characters except Feste (Clown) are self-deceived;

• Comic humanism: people recognize that they're silly, but they work it out. Can Malvolio work it out?
• Clown/Feste: the realist, lacking imagination and emotion.
• Be prepared to explain , who is the ideal courtier figure in Twelfth Night.
• How doest situation drive the comic elements: situation = time, place, & existing human relationships.
• How do we separate comic from serious danger out there; how do the characters work it out?
• Much Ado: what is the use of dramatic irony in this comedy?
• Given that comedies use elements misunderstanding, disguise, mistaken identities, how does Shakespeare use intentional and unintential misundersatndings to drive the plot.

• Vocabulary
• Lit

• Comedy
• Satire

• Vocabulary
• we

• Ba

• Exam review
• Term Vocab Test

Sonnets

• Discuss fall exam, review the medival mind                           intro vocab #7

              belief (religion over humanism);

• social order paramount over individual;

• simple will inherit the earth;

• multiple worlds existing simultaneously in even very early English theater ;

   

• imagination over reason;

• nature of goodness & power is divine;

• humans lived up to God's expectations of them;

• history of liturgical drama;

• review of comedy

 Sonnets

• Drama: definition, 3 tools
• Tragedy: define & review

• O

Doctor Faustus

• Four key points of English Renaissance:

  • humanism = rediscovered Classical lit was centered on individual;

  • worldly/earthly power = power we have & power that affects us;

  • neoplatonic search for earthly perfection;

  • ideal of courtier (definitely not chivalric knight).

Doctor Faustus

Hamlet

• Trace our opinion of Faustus as the action works itself out.

• This opinion will define our decision about tragedy.

  Is Faustus a successful play?

• Hamlet: explain courtier (evolution from chivalric knight). Characteristics (renaissaince humanism) include: warrior skills & athletic prowess, though not dominant element; can function at court with people; social, political role; knowledge of the arts; social skills; concern for, respect for others; intelligence                        self-control.
• Hamlet as a good play (Shakespeare at his height);
• Hamlet as a tragic hero;
• Hamlet as 17-18 years old.

Hamlet

• what is the attitude of revenge and justice toward society and its institutions?   

• Reconsider four points of renaissance ideas;

• Is there a sense of order?

• Hamlet as created through comparisons with other characters;

• Assertion of self: from boy to hero without external supports.

Twelfth Night & Much Ado About Nothing

• Twelfth Night: Examine three plot lines;

• Apppreciate motifs: disguise & masking;

• Relize that all characters except Feste (Clown) are self-deceived;

• Comic humanism: people recognize that they're silly, but they work it out. Can Malvolio work it out?
• Clown/Feste: the realist, lacking imagination and emotion.
• Be prepared to explain , who is the ideal courtier figure in Twelfth Night.
• How doest situation drive the comic elements: situation = time, place, & existing human relationships.
• How do we separate comic from serious danger out there; how do the characters work it out?
• Much Ado: what is the use of dramatic irony in this comedy?
• Given that comedies use elements misunderstanding, disguise, mistaken identities, how does Shakespeare use intentional and unintential misundersatndings to drive the plot.

• Vocabulary
• Lit

• Comedy
• Satire

• Vocabulary
• we

• Ba

• Exam review
• Term Vocab Test