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JUNIORS - Class 0f 2013

During this last week of classes, we will discuss Penelope Lively's story, "At the Pitt-Rivers," Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture (the shortened version in your textbook), and the final exam. Hard copies of the final exam review are in my room, and the list is below.  Although I have tried to make the list comprehensive, it is always possible I have left something off. If I have, please let me know for the benefit of the other students:


Research Process

  • MLA Format – what it is and how it looks 
  • Using the subscription databases (i.e. EBSCO, JSTOR)
  • Evaluating sources (Relevance and Reliability) & Using sources (Introduce and Integrate) 
  • Parenthetical Citation, Formatting block quotes, Works Cited (expect at least to know the form for an article from a subscription database) 

Romantic Period 
  • Introduction to the period (620-638) 
  • Gothic Literature & Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (study guide) 
  • Women writers of the period (726-728) 
  • William Blake: "The Lamb" & "The Tyger" & "The Chimney Sweeper" (two versions) 
  • William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey," “Westminster Bridge”
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" & "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 
  • Lord Byron: "She Walks in Beauty"
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymandias,” “A Defense of Poetry”
  • John Keats: "Ode On a Grecian Urn," “Bright Star”

Victorian Period 
  • Introduction to the period (780-800) including Colonialism
  • Victorian novels and novelists
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott,” “In Memoriam”
  • Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” 
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnet 43”
  • Rudyard Kipling: “The Mark of the Beast” (handout)
  • George Orwell “Shooting an Elephant” (handout) 
  • Nadine Gordimer “Once Upon A Time”
  • A.E. Housman: “When I Was One and Twenty,” “To An Athlete Dying Young”
  • Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” (941)
  • Thomas Hardy “The Man He Killed,” “Convergence of the Twain,” “Digging on my Grave” (953-60)

Modern Period

  • Introduction to the period (908-922)
  • William Butler Yeats: “The Second Coming,” “Sailing to Byzantium” (988)
  • W.H. Auden “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “The Unknown Citizen” (1076)
  • D.H. Lawrence “The Rocking Horse Winner” (1006)
  • James Joyce: Ulysses, “Araby” (1022)
  • Katherine Mansfield “A Cup of Tea” (1034)
  • Virginia Woolf “The Duchess and the Jeweller” (1046)
  • T.S. Eliot – collected poems (1060-74)
  • George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Penelope Lively “At the Pitt-Rivers” (1199)
  • Seamus Heaney “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture” (1241)

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