LEARNING TARGET:  Be able to explain the ideas in the excerpt of “Civil Disobedience” in your own words.  Particular focus on:

• What Thoreau thinks about the government?
• How the ideas of “Civil Disobedience” are similar to those in the other Transcendental works we’ve studied.
  • “Nature” by Emerson
  • “Self-reliance” by Emerson.
  • “The Learn’d Astronomer” by Whitman
  • “Dead Poet’s Society
  • “Walden” by Thoreau.

LEARNING TARGET:  By the end of today’s class you should be able to explain what Henry David Thoreau’s WALDEN has to say about how to live the best life.  You should be able to do this IN YOUR OWN WORDS!!

THIS WEEK:

• MONDAY: Thoreau/Walden
• TUESDAY: Thoreau/Common Sense
• WEDNESDAY: Practice vocab quiz.  Work on DPS Paper
• THURSDAY:  Work on DPS Paper
• FRIDAY: FINAL VOCAB QUIZ,  PEER EDIT DRAFTS OF DPS PAPER.