Week 36 William Blake (part 2)

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What do you remember about the cyclical nature of life?

Goals

1: I can find elements of the Romantics in "The Chimney Sweeper" poems

Today you need: your laptop, JDW map and a pen. 

*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).

Romanticism

1798 - 1837

neoclassical period - Romantic period - Victorian period

cyclical nature of life

with God

Child with subconscious remembrance of life with God

corruption by society

Songs of Innocence 

&

Songs of experience

Songs of innocence (1789)

Songs of experience (1794)

Reading Questions 

1. What do you think the coffins of black are in the first poem "The Chimney Sweeper"? 

2. What is the difference in tone between the two poems? 

3. How do you see elements of the Romantics reflected throughout the two poems? Mention at least 3. 

religious imagery and apostrophe we will also ask about on the test. 

Features

- emotional and imaginative

- intuition

- nature (as mysterious force, god-like or supplement for religion)

- exploration of human nature and native past

- exploration of importance of self-expression

- concern for outcasts of society

- focus on individuals/common man

- use of symbolism

- art as expression

- supernatural elements

• PTA 2: A) speaking exam based on Pride & Prejudice + Frankenstein. Is it/is it not a work that belongs to the Romantics? B) reading + vocabulary 

• PTA 3: A) listening/watching exam B) literature Romantic Poetry/19th century works.  

• PTA 4: reading exam 
• CE: ONLY READING

PTA

Pride & Prejudice

When two rich young gentlemen move to town, they don't go unnoticed - especially when Mrs Bennett vows to have one of her five daughters marry into their fortunes. But love, as Jane and Elizabeth Bennett soon discover, is rarely straightforward, and often surprising. It's only a matter of time until their own small worlds are turned upside down and they discover that first impressions can be the most misleading of all.

Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart.

Mary Shelley takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg, to the beautiful Swiss Alps, to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle, in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations.

Which one would you like to read?

Frankenstein

Pride and Prejudice

exam practice 

Holmwoods

Go to holmwoods through magister > elo > english essentials 

reading level needs to be at C1

Other skills need to be on B2 level

No access to holmwoods? 

Make an exam text 

Write down 2 things you have learned today.