Updated 5/5/08
May 5--period 3--vocabulary test.  Writing assignment due.
             period 4   "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
May 6 -10 Romanticism--Wordsworthy, Bryan, Shelley, Keats.
 
May 5  Writing assignment due (attached)

Writing Assignment for the 18th Century (Enlightenment) Due May 4

You may choose one assignment from those listed below.  Those in Honors  may NOT do # 1.  .

1.  Compose a Dictionary in the style of Samuel Johnson.  Definitions should be a cross section of amusing, confusing, inaccurate, and prejudiced.  Fifty   (appropriate for classroom reading) definitions are required.

2.  Read a “Modest Proposal” (in the green or purple book) Write a "Modest Proposal" in the style of Swift.  Make sure that you structure it as he did (problems, solution, advantages, alternatives, summary).  Use diction with shock value, use verisimilitude and include the real solutions to the problem somewhere in the satire.

3. Or write a satire like Gulliver’s Travels in the style of Swift.

4.  Do a dissection in the style of Addison and Steele's Spectator .

5.  Read "The Rape of the Lock"  and write a "Mock Epic" in the style of Pope.  It should be written in heroic couplets and fit the definition of an epic.


All projects are worth 100 points.  You may do two projects for extra credit and receive up to 50 points extra.