Greetings Sophomores!
I hope you had a restful weekend, because the coming days will be full!
Progress reports go home this week.
Your research should be underway. I will check your bibliography cards and thesis statements this week. By next week, everyone should have completed note cards, the making and use of which I will demonstrate in class. Please see the link above for specific dates for your class.
We have begun studying the Romantics, and you should have already read the following stories at home this weekend:
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (also in your text)
"Rip van Winkle" (not in your text)
We will discuss both stories in class and create a chart to compare and contrast the protagonists of each. By doing so, you should be able to determine what Irving has to say about what makes a man worthy of reward.
After our study of Irving, we will analyze two poems by William Cullen Bryant, the poet who envisioned Central Park as a means for urban dwellers to experience the country and escape their troubles. Many Romantic era poets depicted communion with nature as a means to understanding.
Those two poems are:
"Thanatopsis" and "To a Waterfowl"
In addition to these stories and poems, expect a discussion of the poem "The Raven" and two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, "The Oval Portrait" and "Fall of the House of Usher," and an excerpt from James Fennimore Cooper's The Prairie before we delve into our discussion of the Transcendentalists.
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
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