WORK DAY

Two things for tomorrow

1. Be read through Ch. 14 (p. 193)
2. Assignment on classroom due

VOCAB QUIZ backed up to next WED

LEARNING TARGET: You should be able to make a connection between the big theme (think Atticus’ quote from back in Ch.2) and the situation with Mrs.  Dubose

 

IN CLASS:

 

1.  Took practice vocab quiz
2.  Discussed Ch. 11
3. Work Time:  could either do assignment on Docs on Pt. 1 of the novel (Due Friday) or read (Be to P. 193 by FRIDAY!!!)

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

• Understand the key event of chapter 10
• Be able to form a theory as to what we are supposed to take away from Ch. 11 and the episode with Mrs. Henrietta DuBose.

IN CLASS

 

1.  Turn in “TO BE GRADED” draft of essay.
2. READ CH. 8 of TKAM.

WARMUP: VOCAB

1.  Who can tell me with what conference Grand Haven High School is AFFILIATED?
2.  Assuming you are cremeated when you die, where would you like your ashes to be DISPERSED?
3.  Name a MALEVOLENT character from a book or movie you know?
4.  Who is the most SCRUPULOUS person you know.  Why do you say this?

IN CLASS:  Read ch. 6 and7 of TKAM.

HOMEWORK:  TO BE GRADED DRAFT OF ESSAY DUE TOMORROW.

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

• Explain the significance of the last line of the chapter.
• Explain the concept of different   Levels of Thinking

IN CLASS:

• Class discussion of Ch.4 (FUll Class)
• Read ch. 5 independently

LEARNING TARGETS:

1. Students will be able to evaluate the importance of the Atticus’ quote on p. 39 (the one about seeing things through the other person’s eyes.
2. Students will also be able to define EMPATHY.

 

IN CLASS

• Class discussion about the above quote/empathy
• Work time (either Read Ch. 4 or work on essay revisions)

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

• Correctly pronounce each of the UNIT 4 VOCAB WORDS
• Know where to look for the correct MLA Style format.

 

IN CLASS TODAY:

• Intro to Vocab Unit 4
• Quick Quiz on TKAM chapter 2
• C.E. went over general issues with essay drafts (NOTE: fewer than 50 percent of you turned them in even though you had four class to work on them–this is shameful).
• Students read Ch. 3 of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD while C.E. conferenced about essays.

Working on Transcendentalism Essay

 

TRANSCENDENTALISM PAPER:  Choose a major theme of Transcendentalism and explain how it is developed in Dead Poet’s Society AND two of the following writings

• Emerson “Nature”
• Emerson “Self-Reliance”
• Thoreau “Walden”
• Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”
• Whitman “The Learn’d Astronomer”

 

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR YOU TO SHOW US IN THIS PAPER

1. That you understand elements of transcendentalism and show how it applies and connects to the world outside of the texts we read.
2. That you can identify a theme and support it with evidence from multiple texts.
3. That you can organize and express your thoughts in essay format.

 

FORMAT: 

• Typed, using MLA Format (12-point font, 1-inch margins, MLA page headers)
  • Include MLA works-cited page

 

• DEADLINES:
  • Draft due for peer editing:  Start of class 10/31
  • First Draft Due to C.E. Oct. 31 (Turn in to classroom)
  • Final Draft Due:  NOVE7  (Printed Hard Copy)

 

 

IN CLASS:  Watched film: DEAD POET’S SOCIETY

LEARNING TARGETS

• be able to explain how the film deals with the themes of transcendentalism.

 

Also, Monday, took Vocab quiz 3.

 

Transcendentalism Paper 2019-20