Reset

1. Reset It is time for us to Reset classroom culture. 10 weeks left of your Sr Yr! - more energy - more respect

2. College Level Expectations Note taking • Reading • In-class / lectures • Doing research

3. College Level Expectations Disruptions in class: Talking out of turn will result in a JAG If you need a restroom break, wait for respectful time Getting a tissue: get up quietly and do so IF no one else is already up.

4. College Level Expectations If you miss class: • check in power school • check in the folders • check with another student • check with me.

5. College Level Expectations Late work will no longer be accepted. Extra Credit: final opportunity for Extra Credit is Ozymandias

6. Midterm results 1st Period • Average of benchmark(before extra credit): 23.56 of a possible 33 • Highest: 68 • Lowest: 32 • Timed-Writing Average: 35 (total possible: 42) or 83%

7. Midterm results 1st Period Standards needing work: Reading 3.4 - Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions. Reading 3.7: b - Relate literary works and authors to the major themes and issues of their eras.

8. Midterm results 2nd Period • Average (before extra credit): 23 of a possible 33 • Highest: 60 • Lowest: 21 • Timed-Writing Average: 32.68 of 42 possible (78%)

9. Midterm results 2nd Period Standards needing work: Reading 3.4 - Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions. Reading 3.6 – Analyze the way in which authors through the centuries have used archetypes… Reading 3.7: b - Relate literary works and authors to the major themes and issues of their eras.

10. Midterm results 3rd Period • Average (before extra credit): 23.714 of a possible 33 • Highest: 60 • Lowest: 21 • Timed-Writing Average:32 of 42 possible (80%)

11. Midterm results 3rd Period Standards needing work: Reading 3.4 - Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions. Reading 3.7: b - Relate literary works and authors to the major themes and issues of their eras.

12. Over-Break Assignments Remember to schedule your 10minute book-talk with me. Available: 7:30-8am, 2nd Lunch, 4-5pm on M & T Please get out your “Analytical questions” and responses • What did you notice

13. Restoration& 18th Century

14. Restoration and the Eighteenth Century1660-1800 The Augustan Age The Neoclassical Period The Age of Reason The Age of Enlightenment

15. In the Shadow of Elizabeth • Elizabeth left no heirs. Her closest relative was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots’ son James. Mary,Queen of Scots Elizabeth I James I

16. In the Shadow of Elizabeth • After James I, his weak son Charles I came to throne, but the Puritans and their parliamentary party had gained power. Charles I James I

17. In the Shadow of Elizabeth • By 1642 England was embroiled in civil war between the parliamentary party and the Royalists. • Charles I was Beheaded by Parliament as they took over England under the rule of Oliver Cromwell—not royalty but a military and political strategist who eventually tore up the constitution and became a dictator. Oliver Cromwell

18. The Growth of the United States People poured from England and Europe to North America. Why? • Freedom of Religion • Ambition—money to be made in furs, tobacco, logging for the building of ships • Transporting Africans for use as slave labor.

19. Defeated and Exhausted • By 1660 England was utterly exhausted by 20 years of civil war. • By 1700 it had lived through a devastating plague and a fire that had left more than 2/3 of Londoners homeless. • Lesser countries would have folded

20. Not England • By the end of the 18th century, England had transformed itself. • Some say they had nowhere to go but up. • There was a return to classical learning and a restoration of order.

21. Octavian and Charles II Why Augustan and Neoclassical? Charles II compared himself to Rome under the reign of emperor Octavian who called himself “Augustus” meaning “the exalted one.” He restored peace and order to Rome after Julius Caesar’s assassination.

22. What is meant by Restoration? • In 1660 the Anglican Church was restored as the official Church of England and King Charles II was restored to power (after having been exiled to France, restoring the monarchy.)

23. What Happened to Cromwell? • Cromwell died of Malaria in 1658. • They dug up Cromwell, beheaded him, then reburied him. • The monarchy was restored without shedding a drop of blood.

24. The Age of Reason and Enlightenment • Asking the How? People were changing their ways of viewing themselves and the world. • Natural phenomena were increasingly explained by scientific observation as people began to ask how things happened in the natural world.

25. Birth of Modern Prose • Under the influence of the Royal Society and John Dryden, English prose became more precise, exact, and plain. • Fewer metaphors, flowery language, etc.

26. Changes in Religion • The new science influenced religion: A movement called Deism viewed the universe as a perfect mechanism, which God had build and left to run on its own. • Pope’s Essay on Man • Sir Issac Newton • John Locke • Christianity but asking more and more scientific questions

27. Religion and Politics • Religion determined people’s politics. • King Charles II outlawed and persecuted all the various Puritan and Independent sects—dozens of them who all disagreed among themselves.

28. Bloodless Revolution • Charles II had no legal heir. • When he died in 1685 he was succeeded by his brother James II, a practicing Roman Catholic. Pressure was so great that he fled to France with his family in 1688. James II

29. Bloodless Revolution • James II was succeeded by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband William of Orange. Ever since, the rulers of England have been, at least in name, Anglicans. William and Mary

30. After the Restoration • Writers drew on “New Classical” style of Roman, Greek, and Latin models • Thinkers of this Age of Reason emphasized logic, scientific observation, factual explanation. These rational explanations affected some people’s religious views. • Literary tastes turned to wit and satire to expose excesses and moral corruption.

31. After the Restoration • In journalism, the periodical essay developed, commenting on public manners and values.

32. After the Restoration • To satisfy the reading tastes of a developing middle class, writers began to experiment with long fictional narratives called novels. Oronooko- Aphra Behn, 1688 Pilgrim’s Progress – J. Bunyon, 1678 Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe - 1719

33. After the Restoration • Theaters closed by the Puritans reopened, and female actors were now included on the stage; drama during the Restoration period was witty, bawdy, and cynical.

34. After the Restoration • By the end of the period, the excesses of the rich and the onset of industrialization turned people’s tastes to an appreciation for nature and simplicity.

35. Major Ideas of the Era • Rationalism>>logical reasoning based on fact • Cosmology>>new world view based on Newtonian physics >analysis of natural phenomena as systems • Secularism>>application of scientific theories to religion and society • Scientific method>>experimentation, observation, hypothesis • Optimism>>anything is possible • Tolerance>>a greater acceptance of different societies and cultures • Mass education • Utilitarianism>the worth of something is determined by its utility > the greatest good for the greatest number of people • Cosmopolitanism • Freedom • Reform

36. The Age of Enlightenment • Origins in the scientific and intellectual revolutions of the seventeenth century.

37. The Age of Enlightenment • Change and reason were both possible and desirable for the sake of human liberty. • Provided a major source of ideas that could be used to undermine existing political and social patterns.

38. What adjectives would you use to describe these images?

39. The Seven Groups of English Society during this time • The Great, who live profusely • The Rich, who live very plentifully • The Middle Sort, who live well • The Working Trades, who labor hard, but feel no want • The Country People, farmers, etc., who fare indefferently • The Poor, that fare hard • The Miserable, that really pinch and suffer want. ---Daniel Defoe

40. Debtor’s Prison Read “Life among the Haves” pg 416 Then “… and Life Among the Have-Nots” pg 418

41. The Age of Satire • Alexander Pope and Jonathon Swift (of aristocratic values) both used satire to expose the moral corruption and crass commercialism of the eighteenth-century England.

42. The Age of Satire • Daniel Defoe stood for values that we think of as middle class—no interest in polished manners and social poise.

43. Artist William Hogarth shared many of their attitudes and ideas and expressed his satire through art.

44. The Age of Journalism • As the middle class grew, journalists such as Defoe, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele followed this new profession. • Saw themselves as “reformers of public manners and morals.”

45. Popular Taste • Like journalists of the day, writers like Pope and Swift aimed at reforming and educating their readers. • Pope in particular, however, was much too formal and classical in his style to draw a wide readership. These readers instead flocked to the novel.

46. First English Novels • Something new • Development of the middle class • Often broad and comical • Robinson Crusoe, by Defoe • Women were among the eager readers • Tom Jones, Henry Fielding

47. Public Poetry • Poetry of the period was not private, intimate, or spontaneous; rather it was highly artificial and carefully crafted for public occasions. • Forms included: elegies for grand people, satire, odes.

48. The Age of Johnson • Samuel Johnson a commanding figure at the end of the 18th century, a man of conservative and traditional beliefs. • He questioned optimistic assumption that the future would be better than the past and that people will automatically do what is right.

49. The End of the Age • At the end of the century, as industrialization mushroomed, writers returned to nature and folk themes for inspiration.