Please find below a copy of the rubric for your presentations on Mon-Wed next week. Follow it carefully. This tells you everything you need to get an A. Remember this projects counts as a writing grade.
Monday: STIXY poem projects.
Due next Thursday: The first material for The Scarlet Letter. The schedule was handed out in class on yesterday, and there is a copy on the blog for December 6.
We are finally looking at a series of Romantic paintings that like the literature reflect the attributes associated with the movement. These include:
Qualities of Romanticism
1. Love of Nature
2. Idealization of Rural Living
3. Faith in Common People
4. Emphasis on Freedom and Individualism
5. Spontaneity, intuition, feeling, imagination, wonder
6. Passionate individual religiosity
7. Life after death
8. Organic view of the World
Terms to know well:
1. awe- noun: A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder: "they gazed in awe at the small mountain of diamonds".
verb: Inspire with awe: "they were both awed by the vastness of the forest".
synonyms: fear - reverence - dread - fright – terror
2. picturesque- charming or quaint in appearance
3. sublime-adjective: Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe: "ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous".
Synonyms: adjective. lofty - grand - noble - exalted - elevated – stately
4. transcendental- adjective- Of or relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm.
5. Transcendentalism- a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical
You should be making reference to the qualities and terms when presenting your poems to the class on Monday.
Poet Presentation Rubric Name:_________________________________
Poet/ Poem:_________________ _________________________
Visual: 25 points
Poet’s image _______/5
Poem with rhyme scheme for at least 10 lines
(remember lower case letters only) ________/ 5
Image that evokes the setting, theme or tone of the poem ________/ 5
STIXY notes for vocabulary, at least three figurative language devices
and thesis statement about the poem.
STIXY showing how the Romantic quality and textual proof. ________/ 5
Creativity, Neatness, Originality _______/5
Total:______/ 25
Delivery: 25 points
Poise and Eye Contact _______/10
Read poem or inserted audio clip that followed
Poem’s punctuation. _______/5
Voice (loudness & tone) _______/10
Total: ______/25
Information: 50 points
1 minute Information about the poet’s personal life ______/5
(STIXY) Explained thesis statement ______ / 10
(STIXY) Explained vocabulary words _______/ 10
(STIXY) Explained and supported Romantic connections _______/ 10
(STIXY) Minimum 3 poetic / figurative languages devices
Explained and supported. ________/ 15
Total :______/50
Final grade:
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