UNIT TWO: HUMANS' RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NATURAL WORLD

Week 1
Romantic Poetry
Poems can be found in your iBooks Library or with these links (search for the name of the poet or poem):
Poetry Foundation or Poets.org. 
Unit Plan

William Blake
"The Lamb", "The Tyger", "Holy Thursday" (Songs of Innocence)
"Holy Thursday" (Songs of Experience)
Robert Burns
"To a Mouse", "Red, Red Rose"

William Wordsworth
"Ode: Intimations...Early Childhood"
"My Heart Leaps Up", "The World is Too Much with Us"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Kubla Khan"

Mary Wollstonecraft
"A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
from Introduction and Ch. 2
George Gordon, Lord Byron
"She Walks in Beauty",
"When We Two Parted"

Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Ozymandias",
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
John Keats
"Ode: To a Nightingale",
"Ode: On a Grecian Urn"

Romantic Poetry Timed Writing 2018

Week 2
Chaucer-The Canterbury Tales
Unit Plan
Prologue
Prologue with notes
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale with notes
Canterbury Tales PDF
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​Librarius-ALL TALES
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Student Canterbury Tales



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Weeks 3-6 Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness
Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
Unit Plan
Novel Intro/Day One
Cornell Notes-Themes
Cornell Notes-Blank
Journal Topics
ch10 Essay

​Persuasive Research Paper
Research Paper-The Environment
Introduce, Select Topic, Begin Research, Complete after Break
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Aspen Ideas-Rescue the Humanities

Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
Frankenstein/Heart of Darkness
Setting Comparison Essay Prompt






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Weeks 7-9
Nature Ethic and the Human Experience

Apocalyptic Planet-Craig Childs
Read over Winter Break, in IBooks Library
Unit Plan-Apocalyptic Planet, Nature Ethic
​Apocalyptic Planet Journal Topics
Personal Nature Ethic
Persuasive Research Paper
Research Paper-The Environment

Resources:
Guide to Romantic Poetry
Romantic Period and Poets
Norton Guide to Romantic Poetry
Romantic Poetry Powerpoint
Kubla Khan Analysis
Kubla Khan As A Symbol

 




Chaucer Resources:
Librarius  translation-ALL TALES
Pardoner's Study Guide
Wife of Bath's Study Guide
Annotated Bibliography Tutorial
Annotated Bibliography Example
Annotated Bib-The OWL
Literary Criticism Essays- Annotated Bib:
Women in Canterbury Tales
Wife of Bath vs. Madonna
Wife of Bath Character Analysis       Word
Wife of Bath Analysis
Chaucer and Chivalry
The Representation of Chivalry
Fabliaux, Courtly Romance
Humor and Chaucer

Frankenstein Resources:
Setting Essay  /  Setting Definition
Study Guide / "Future of Frankenstein"

Essays:  "Prometheus"; "Tampering";
"Milton's Adam"; "Abandonment"
"Self-Centeredness"
Frankenstein Articles
Frankenstein: The Historical Context
Philosophy of Rousseau (Read "Work")
Rousseau-"Emile" WIKI
Locke's "Tabula rasa"
Locke: "Concerning Human Understanding"
Rousseau: Theory of Natural Human Slideshow
Locke/Rousseau/Hobbes Comparison

​Heart of Darkness Resources:
Study Guide
Essays: "Introduction"; "Racism"
"Women"; "Two Visions"
"Masculinity, Modernity, and Homosexual Desire"
Euro-Africa Map
Congo River 1800's
Congo Map
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Apocalyptic Planet-Field Guide Videos

Craig Childs Homepage
Craig Childs Ted Talks
Story of Place Video
Streams of Consequece-Rio LibresVideo
Power in the Pristine- Rio Libres Video
Rio Libres

Leopold: "The Land Ethic", "Wilderness"
Aldo Leopold Foundation
Sigurd Olson "Reflections"
Derrick Jensen "Beyond Hope",
"Upping the Stakes", "Loaded Words"
"Forget Shorter Showers"
"Sustainable Development is a Lie"
"Ecomodernist Manifesto"
"Lost Language of Natural Places"

Research Paper Resources:
Persuasive Writing
Motivated Sequence
OWL-8th Edition Updates
MLA-What's New in the 8th Edition
Creating an MLA Works Cited
Sample Works Cited-OWL
In-Text Parenthetical Citations-
MLA Sample Paper-OWL
Sample Paper-Loon Spill
Sample Paper-Waypoint
MLA Style-OWL Purdue
Citing Indirect Sources
Cross Referencing Sources
Badger Link Tutorial
Peer Critique
MLA Resources on College English
​Writing Transitions OWL