M: School Holiday

T: The students will complete the Critical Reading exercise, pg. 845,  for Rime of the Ancient Mariner and begin their journal entries.

 W: The students will take the English IV benchmark exam, read pages 725 -726 and 774 – 775, noting the elements of the romantic tradition and its lyric poetry.

Th: The students will read the Lord Byron biographical sketch, pg. 853 and She Walks in Beauty pg. 855, comparing and contrasting opening and closing lines.

F: The students will read the Percy Bysshe Shelley bio, pg. 867 and Ode to the West Wind, pgs. 870 – 872, comparing imagery in the poem, and inferring from it the changes in the speaker’s life.

TEKS covered: ELA 12.05, ELA 12:15, ELA 12.01