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

1. Explain what you need to do for your vocab quiz
2. Be able to find some connections between the Transcendentalist writings we read last week and the events/characters in DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY

VOCAB WARMUP SIX (Slide 26)

IN CLASS: Began watching film “DEAD POETS SOCIETY”

LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of watching DEAD POETS SOCIETY you should be able to judge how well the characters in the film apply the lessons of the Transcendentalists.

LEARNING TARGETS: As a result of today’s class you should be able to understand the main points of Thoreau’s CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

In class:

1. Vocab Warmup 5
2. Debriefed on Walden
3. Watched videos on Thoreau/Civil Disobedience.

LEARNING TARGETS: by the end of Today’s class you should be able to explain the main ideas of Thoreau’s WALDEN.

In class, we completed the Walden assignment on classroom.

WELCOME TO FALL!!

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

1. Explain how Walt Whitman’s Poem “When I heard The Learn’d Astronomer” reflects Transcendentalist Ideas.
2. Explain who HENRY DAVID THOREAU was and why he’s important.
3. Summarize the basic ideas of Walden

THOREAU VIDEO

WHY EVERYBODY SHOULD READ WALDEN

STARTED CLASS WITH VOCAB WARMUP (slide 24)

WENT OVER THOREAU/NATURE QUESTIONS

VIDEO/DISCUSSION about THOREAU and WALDEN

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

1. Complete the vocab warmup (slide 23)
2. Explain the key ideas of Emerson’s “Nature”

In class–

1. Took ungraded practice quiz on “Self Reliance”
2. Vocab Warmup
3. Good Things
4. Reading + Questions (NATURE handout)

WARMUP: VOCAB SLIDE 23

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

1. Summarize Emerson’s main ideas in NATURE
2. Explain the strategies you used to read.

WARMUP: VOCAB SLIDE 22

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

1. Summarize Emerson’s main ideas in SELF RELIANCE
2. Explain the strategies you used to read.

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

1. Explain how we are going to handle vocabulary
2. Explain how we are going to use our notebooks
3. Explain the basics of who the TRANSCENDENTALISTS ARE
4. (If Time allows: begin reading “Self-Reliance” essay.

ASSIGNMENT DUE: MINI ESSAY

VOCAB UNIT ONE INTRO:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WzN2CIhTE18CNr5P8Z6nZFugDKcVCuNnik_6fBBU9Xo/edit?usp=sharing

Academic Skills (Prompt what are the most important traits of successful students)

HOW TO SUCCEED IN COLLEGE

NOTES BY HAND

MULTI TASKING IS BAD

POEMS (Prompt: How do “On Turning 10” and “Both Sides Now” deal with how our perceptions of ourselves change over time?)

ON TURNING 10

BOTH SIDES NOW