TODAY IN CLASS
Yesterday's homework was collected.  Late work/re-submitted because you did the wrong passage work will be accepted tomorrow with a deduction. Yesterday's work had been detailed on the blog during 6th period, so available by the end of the day.

New hand-out:  Epic definition, characteristics, conventions on one side; specific Frankenstein connections on the other. We went over characteristics (problems with "hero"; "deeds of great valor") and the conventions.

I read the short "locker room speech" in which Satan scorns the fallen angels if they choose to stay passively sprawled on the floor of Hell, too lazy to do anything else, or if they choose to just look up to admire the one who kicked them out, or if they wait for further vengeance, like being pin downed by a bolt of lighting.  It ends with a one-line exhortation:  "Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!"

Most of the rest of Book I is one very long procession of fallen angels who gradually rose up and marched to a gathering point; Milton follows the convention of the catalog by calling many leaders by name and including where they are from.  It is a mighty force of fallen angels, now demons. Satan provides an interim report, offering some hope of regaining Heaven, but mostly diverting their attention by describing the new world and new creature to be created.  They decide to have a full-blown council and debate.  Before continuing, they work together quickly to build a palace called Pandemonium, and there they begin the actual discussion.

I purposely skipped Book 3 (1-55) for now; otherwise I could not accept late work on this.


Then (in 3rd) we moved on to Book 4;

FOR TOMORROW
We will pick up there tomorrow in 4th. In both classes we will also look briefly at the excerpts from 9 and 10, but you should have read them well.

On the back of the sheet, read/think about/jot down some notes on the questions there which, as it states, are NOT a formal written assignment this year.  But this will prep you for something you'll get tomorrow, and will not be due until Tuesday.

For MOST of class tomorrow--you will need The Awakening. Please don't forget it; I have no copies to loan.