English Lit

Today, we read "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray.  Students read the author notes and took notes on him, then they did a question and quote on the poem, which will be due on Friday.  Finally, students were put in groups and assigned particular stanzas to analyze for Friday.

The Restoration test will take place next Wednesday.  The topics will be Pepys, Pope, Swift, Burns, Blake, and Gray.  The vocabulary words you will have to know are as follows:

Vocab for the test 

1. inducement 
2. scrupulous 
3. encumbrance 
4. idolatrous 
5. expedient 
6. sustenance 
7. censure 
8. refulgent 
9. succinct 
10. plebeian 
11. profligate 
12. posterity 
13. enervating 
14. florid 
15. spendthrift 

I will give you an overview of the structure of the test in a future blog post.