Week 1 (Feb.3-Feb.6)

Day 2 (Tuesday)

Listen to a speech by Emmeline Pankhurst and write an essay ,based on the speech, about the social conditions that led women in England to seek the right to vote in 1908.

Enrichment Activity:

To learn more about the speaker Emmeline Pankhurst, please visit this website.

HW#1 Use the relevant information in Emmeline's speech to write an essay on the social conditions that led women in England to seek the right to vote in 1908.

Day 3 (Wednesday)

Read the poem by Matthew Arnold and the story about the friendship between the two youths Damon and  Pythias.

Passage 1( Read the entire poem of "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold)

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast, the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin, 
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring 
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love (friends), let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Passage 2

Story about the friendship between the two youths Damon and  Pythias.

 HW#2 Write a unified essay about the power of true friendship as revealed in the poem and the story

Day 3 (Thursday)

Lessons on Elizabeth & Robert Browning's poetry

Activities: 

• Read Elizabeth Browning's Sonnet "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways".
• Discuss the meaning of the poem. How does the poet describe her love?

HW#3 You are character A. Write a love poem or letter to Character  B ,who is either real or imaginative and with whom you are in deep love.

Day 4 (Friday)

Lessons on Elizabeth & Robert Browning's poetry

Activities:

Activity 1-Do Now:

Read one more Sonnets by Elizabeth Browning (Sonnet VI, VII, VIII, and IX) and describe how Elizabeth Browning expresses her love in the poem. What are some of the specific words, phrases or lines she used to express her emotions? Be prepared to share your answer with the class.

Activity 2

• Each group presents the meaning for the sonnet they read.
• Discuss all the four sonnets.

HW#4  Now you are Character B and just received the love poem or letter A sent you. Write a response to the love letter or poem.