LEARNING TARGETS:  Be able to explain how the film Dead Poets Society embodies the ideas of the Transcendentalists.

IN CLASS:

• Tuesday:
  • Received new vocab packet (Quiz 12/7)
  • Watched first third of Dead Poets Society.
• Wednesday:
  • Watched second third of DPS
  • Vocab Practice
• Thursday
  • Finished DPS.

LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of today’s class, you should be able to apply the readings of Emerson and Thoreau to new situations.

ASSIGNMENT: See classroom. (You “interviewed” Emerson and Thoreau).

C.E.’s notes on WALDEN

1.  Took vocab quiz
2.   Brief BIOGRAPHY VIDEO ON HENRY DAVID THOREAU
3.  VIDEO (GREAT BOOKS “WALDEN”)

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

1. Explain similarities in theme between Emerson’s “NATURE” and Whitman’s “WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN’D ASTRONOMER”
2. Explain , in your own words, the main ideas of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
3. Identify key quotes in “Self-Reliance”

IN CLASS:

1. Compared Nature and Learn’d Astronomer (Discussion)
2. Watched 10-minute video (EMERSON)Watched 10-minute video (EMERSON)
3. Read and analyzed “Self-Reliance” (HANDOUT)

LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of today’s class you should be able to

• Explain effective strategies for giving feedback to peers on their writing
• Have multiple suggestions for improving your essay.

1. If we didn’t get to it Friday 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”.

In class today:  Continue poster work.

In class tomorrow:  Qu-est: TKAM

(and Friday, Nov. 2).

LEARNING TARGETS:  

1. by the end of class, you should be able to explain COSTA’S THREE LEVELS OF THINKING).  (One thing your poster project gives you the opportunity to do is to think about your level of thinking–are your annotations at a low, medium or high level?  Why do you think that is?  What does that tell you about yourself as a reader?  How do you get to the next level?

• EITHER READ THIS
• or WATCH THIS

WHY DOES ALL THIS LEVELS OF THINKING STUFF MATTER:  because most of the jobs out there (at least the jobs that pay well) increasingly require workers to work more at the higher levels and less at the lower level.  So we want to understand different types of thinking and work to get ourselves thinking at higher levels.

2.  By the end of class, you should get started on your poster project.  There’s a Google Classroom assignment out there for you and also

• Step 1: pick the 25 annotations you want to use (this will take some thinking)
• Step 2: think about how you want to arrange them on your poster board.
• Step 3: start laying out the posters.

There is poster paper on the file cabinet to the left of the windows.  At the end of class, you can store your works in progress in the brown ….thingamabob under the Beatles posters–just to the right of the window

3rd Hour:  Upper Right Side

        5th Hour:  Lower Right Side

6th Hour: Left Side