V5: Monday, 18 January 2021

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Monday, 18 January 2021

• You have checked the WASP key on the text you read (questions? ask me via Teams!)
• You have your literature booklet (The Romantics) with you
• You have watched the video (25 amendment) and you have answered the questions. 

1) Scan the QR-code with your phone and watch the video(5min)

2) answer the folling questions and write them down in your notebook: KEY

1) Why was there a need to change the Constitution in the 60s?

2) Which presidents were unfit to govern in the past?

3) Why is Ronald Reagan mentioned?

4) What is different about section 4?

5) What is the full procedure to invoke this section?

6) Who would become president if the removal from office succeeded?

7) What could Trump do to protect himself against this?

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Literature: The Romantics

ROMANTICISM

A LITERARY PERIOD IN ENLGISH LITERATURE STRETCHING FROM 1798-1837

Romantic

Can you identify the 9 characteristics?

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

What is the correct combination?

1. 1h; 2d; 3a; 4b; 5f; 6g; 7c; 8e; 9 i
2. 1d; 2h; 3g; 4b; 5f; 6a; 7c; 8e; 9i
3. 1h; 2d; 3g; 4b; 5f; 6a; 7c; 8e; 9i
4. 1h; 2d; 3g; 4c; 5f; 6a; 7b; 8e; 9i

The Romantic Period is first and foremost a reaction to

1. rationalism and industrialisation
2. neoclassicism
3. The enlightenment
4. Christian dogmas

What would be common feature of all these characteristics?

End of first introduction to the Romantics

Class on Wednesday: you have read p. 2 until 7 in the reader

Wednesday, 20th January 

Homework: read p. 2 until 7 in your literature reader

Goal: after this lesson, you know who John Keats was and you understand his poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Write down as many Romantic characteristics as you remember

Write down everything you know about John Keats

Keats was the poet

1. of the supernatural
2. with a keen sense of social injustices
3. most taken with childhood innocense
4. drawing heavily from sensory experience

Most remarkable: as a medical apprentice he knew

1. how to take care of his brother
2. How to treat his own illness
3. He already knew he was dying when he wrote his best poems
4. He wrote about beauty when he knew he was dying

What role does beauty play in this poem?