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Lesson 1 (from "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50)
Objective
The objective of this Daily Lesson is to explore background information on genre and time period as preparation for reading "Tintern Abbey." "Tintern Abbey" is profoundly influenced by the philosophies of British Romanticism and is an example of a typical genre of the period, the loco-descriptive poem. This lesson introduces students to the characteristics of British Romanticism and to the place of Lyrical Ballads, the text in which the poem was published, within the Romantic movement. Then, it introduces them to the loco-descriptive genre and asks them to use the characteristics of this genre and the larger Romantic movement to predict features of "Tintern Abbey."
Lesson
Small Group Research Activity: Divide the class into groups of five. Ask each group member to take responsibility for one of the four topics below. Give students five to ten minutes for research and note-taking and then ask that the...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.7, 9-10.9, 9-10.10, 11-12.7, 11-12.9, 11-12.10
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