WEEK AT A GLANCE

• M/T:  Finish reading Transcendentalists
• W-F “Dead Poet’s Society”

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

• sum up Thoreau’s main arguments in “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE”

LEARNING TARGET: After completing the assignment you should be able to:

• summarize the main ideas of the excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s WALDEN  “In your own words”.
• Identify and mark for future reference, key quotes you may wish to use in your paper on Transcendentalism.

IF YOU WERE NOT HERE LAST WEEK THURSDAY OR FRIDAY

• Thursday, we did an exercise where you “interviewed” Ralph Waldo Emerson.  See GOOGLE CLASSROOM FOR DETAILS.  If absent, this is a SOLO exercise.
• Friday we watched this video–important in helping you understand THOREAU’S WALDEN.

REMIND SIKKENGA HE HAS A STAFF MEETING TODAY!!

First off, take a couple minutes and help your friends at the yearbook out.

LEARNING TARGETS: 

• be able to explain, in your own words, the basic ideas of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”
• be able to evaluate how much of what Emerson says about “Self-Reliance” applies to today’s America.

In class

• Completed Survey above
• Went over questions from yesterday  EMERSON_Nature_Excerpt
• Read: “Self Reliance”
• Discussed questions related to Self Reliance.

LEARNING TARGET: Be able to summarize, in your own words, the meaning of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “NATURE” (or at least the excerpt we read in class).

IN CLASS:

1. If we didn’t get to it yesterday in your class:  I gave this lecture  The Beginnings of an American Culture
   1. NOTE: the purpose of this  lecture is more background for understanding the context of the Transcendentalists.  Not anything where you have to memorize details.  Some of this will pop up on your SECOND SEMESTER EXAM.
2. We read (close reading) and analyzed a selection from Emerson’s “NATURE”.

Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that revered nature and stressed that truth goes beyond what we can experience with our senses. Intuition is key.

Learning Targets: By the end of today you should be able to

• Define, in your own words, the basic beliefs of a TRANSCENDENTALIST

In class:

1.  Using writer’s notebook, journaled to this prompt:  Describe a time when you had to choose whether or not to follow the crowd or to blaze your own path?  What was the situation?  Which did you choose?  How did it work out for you?
2. Read this intro to transcendentalism.
3. Time permitting:  I gave this lecture  The Beginnings of an American Culture

LEARNING TARGETS:  As a result of today’s lesson you should be able to

• read two different poetry essays and accurately judge which one is better.
• apply the lessons from reading the essays to your poetry essay.
• Understand your options for improving your grade.

POETRY PAPER GRADE OPTIONS:

• Option 1: Accept your grade (it will be converted to a 50-point scale)
• Option 2:  Do the “Basic Rewrite* (your new grade will be the average of your two scores)
• Option 3: Do the “Deluxe Rewrite”* (your new grade will be the HIGHER of the two scores.

*options will be posted to google classroom on Monday.

ALL STUDENTS SHOULD TURN IN PRESENTATIONS TODAY VIA GOOGLE CLASSROOM

In class:  Practice Vocab Quiz.

If I am alive tomorrow, we’ll start presentations!  My hope is we’ll get through 8 a day or thereabouts.