Class Wensday April 3

1. He started off talking about versions on Hamlet on video. He then asked for last questions for the test tomorrow. The test will count on the third marking period and to study, he said to study the themes and connections we made between them.

2. We then picked up where we left off yesterday with the year of 1649. In 1649 Oliver Cromwell took over and established a military dictatorship lasting until 1658 and in 1658 his son took over. After his son took over, the English people went to Charles II in France and asked him to come back to England to be their new king, he comes back to England and takes over from Cromwell's son.

3. He then started to talk about the Jacobean Period which was during James I rule. There were two groups of writers the Cavaliers and Puritans. They both used the metaphysical school of literature which is deep philosophical thinking on religion. The main thing in metaphysical literature was the use of the conceit which is a fanciful metaphor that is designed not just to compare things but to shock the audience. He also said that the Cavaliers did not agree with the Elizabetahen writers and their poetry was against them.

4. He then handed out a packet of readings and everything in the packet is fair game for a test. We are going to have a pop quiz when we come back and if the class average is lower than 60% then he will have a quiz everyday after that until the average goes over 60%. Once it is over 60% then we will just have regular pop quizzes on random days. But if on one of those quizzes the average is below 60% again then we keep getting quizzes everyday until we get above 60% again.

Dylan Ketchel