Work Day today.  Priorities should be

1. Finishing Romanticism questions posted on classroom.
2. Reading the three realism stories (see yesterday’s post)
3. Working on Vocab.

Have a great weekend!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:  

• May 3: Practice Vocab Quiz
• May 5: For real Vocab Quiz
• May 9: TEST: Literary Timeline Unit (100 points, double jeopardy)

LEARNING TARGETS

• Be able to explain the main ideas of the realists
• Be able to show how the following fit with the realists
  • Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (p. 468)
  • Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (p. 521)
  • The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (p. 593)

TASKS FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY (any order you choose)

• Finish Romanticism questions on Classroom
• Read the three pieces listed under LEARNING TARGETS above
• Work on Vocab Handout

LEARNING TARGETS:

1. Be able to explain in your own words “Faust Legend” and explain how that applies to the Devil and Tom Walker.
2. Be able to analyze the key themes in the works of the following, as well as explain how they fit the ideas of ROMANTICISM
   1. IRVING: “Devil and Tom Walker”
   2. POE: “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart”
   3. DICKINSON: Assorted poems.

TO BEGIN:  Read the Intro /Bio of Emily Dickinson on p. 394

LEARNING TARGETS: Refer to Monday’s post for general targets

• One specific to today: you should be able to make and defend a claim as to how Poe’s life/background may have influenced his writing.

IN CLASS:  We read some Poe

• WARMUP:  Read this short Biography
• Together
  • Read/Watched THE RAVEN (text p. 309)
• On your own: read THE TELL TALE HEART
  • Traditional text
  • Video with audio  (recommended.  I have some headphones you can borrow if you need them).

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of this lesson, you should be able

• explain the basic idea of romanticism in your own words and say a little something about several romantic authors, especially
  • Washington Irving (“The Devil and Tom Walker”)
  • Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven, The Tell Tale Heart
  • Emily Dickinson (Selected Poems)

WHAT WE DID

• Monday:
  • Intro to Vocab Unit 10
  • Intro Lecture: Romanticism  
  • Read:  “The Devil and Tom Walker”

LEARNING TARGETS:  By the end of today’s class you should be able to:

1. Summarize the main ideas and historical importance of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.”
2. Explain the THREE TYPES OF PERSUASION  (in your own words)
   1. Ethos
   2. Pathos
   3. Logos
3. Be able to categorize several of Paine’s arguments as one of the above types.

IN CASE YOU WERE ABSENT, HERE’S WHAT WE DID

1. Took Vocab Quiz Unit 9
2. Read excerpts from “Common Sense” and judged whether they were Ethos, Pathos or Logos.

Time permitting: analyzed the following passage from the Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of class you should be able to

• Explain the big ideas/concepts of the Age of Reason in your own words
• Explain how the Autobiography of Ben Franklin fits with the ideas of the Enlightenment.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

• Brief intro lecture on THE ENGLIGHTMENT/AGE OF REASON
• Read from Ben Franklin’s Autobiography (131-135)
• Added a quick entry to the writers’ notebook
  • What elements in Franklin’s writing give us clues that it was written in the era of the The American Revolution?
  • If you were going to write your own autobiography, what key events/scenes from your sophomore year would you include? Why?

TODAY’S ACTIVITIES

1. Practice Vocab Quiz
2. “Sinners” SAT-type exercise

LEARNING TARGET: Should be able to define “Sermon” in your own words.

• A lecture or talk by a religious leader, usually focusing on a moral or religious topic.  It usually takes on a specific belief, law or behavior.
• As a negative:  a long, tedious,preachy talk.  A lecture.

TASKS FOR TODAY:

1. Finish Yesterday’s Assignment (see blog/Google Classroom if you were not here)
2. Read “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”  P. 98.  Be ready to discuss this question tomorrow:
   1. What is Edwards’ approach (what techniques is he using to try to get people to do what the Puritan leaders wanted them to do?)
   2. Do you think his approach would work today? Why or why not?
3. Add the Puritan authors to your author chart. (Chart handout from last week. This will be your first use of it)

WARMUP:  Imagine that all human beings were instantly eliminated from Earth.  We’re just gone.  Now pretend it’s a thousand years later and intelligent aliens are investigating Earth.  What five of your personal belongings, if preserved, would best convey a sense of who you were and what was important to you?

LEARNING TARGET:  As a result of today’s class you should be able to understand the following:

• Puritan Literature:  How the Puritans incorporated religious ideas into their writings.
• Overall writing:  POINT OF VIEW
  • 1st Person
  • 2nd Person
  • 3rd Person
    • Objective
    • Limited
    • Omniscient

ACTIVITIES:  Read  “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (p. 90) and “Huswifery” (93) and completed the exercise on Google Classroom.

Brief Lecture on POV.