English 12 (Period 2,3,6) Assignments

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William Blake Writing Assignment
Directions:
William Blake has a series of poems where he reflects on religion and society from an innocent/inexperienced perspective and from an experienced perspective. Your assignment is to compose a poem (at least 10 lines) about a topic of your choice. Determine whether you want to look at it from an innocent or experienced side.

London
from Songs of Experience
 By William Blake
 
I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
 
In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
 
How the chimney-sweeper’s cry
Every blackening church appalls,
And the hapless soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
 
But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot’s curse
Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

Test on The Renaissance Period, Paradise Lost, The Art of Courtly Love, The Restoration and the 18th Century, A Modest Proposal, and Top of the Food Chain

Paradise Lost Excerpts
Directions:
In groups of four, you will be responsible for deciphering, summarizing, and illustrating a section of lines from Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost. To earn full credit for this assignment, you must creatively and thoughtfully complete the following requirements:
- Summarize your section of lines within the context of the entire poem. This may be neatly handwritten on the poster.
- Illustrate your assigned section as dynamically and with as much imagination as possible. Your illustration must primarily depict events occurring in your assigned lines. (Overlap is inevitable, however.)
- Prominently title your poster using significant words and/or lines from the text. Your title should be creatively illustrated and easy to read.
- Clearly write the line numbers you were assigned directly below your title.
- As a group, discuss Milton’s purpose behind writing Paradise Lost: “To answer the question of why God permits human creations to suffer and die.” Further, discuss the question, Why does evil exist? Write your collective or differing viewpoints in a well-organized, handwritten narrative. You do not need to identify each group member’s opinions in your writing.

A Modest Proposal Vocabulary Quiz

The Canterbury Tales: Pilgrim Project

Study for Vocabulary Quiz

Paradise Lost: Vocabulary List

Beowulf, Gilgamesh, and Anglo-Saxon Period Test

Study for Vocabulary Quiz - Fill in the Blank Quiz

Archetypal Villain Assignment

The Canterbury Tales Vocabulary List

Resume

Beowulf and Gilgamesh Vocabulary Quiz

Parent Letter

Beowulf and Gilgamesh Vocabulary List