LEARNING TARGET:  by the end of class you will be able to explain the basic requirements of the annotation mapping project for “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

 

 

IN CLASS TODAY: 

1. Students received copies of To Kill A Mockingbird
2. Received Vocab Unit Five (went over as a class)
3. Had some time to work on vocab/print and turn in papers.
4. Briefly introduced annotation mapping project
   1. ANNOTATION TYPES: TKAMannotationdirections
5. Began reading To Kill A Mockingbird

 

HOMEWORK:  FINISH CHAPTER 1

WEEK OF DEC. 4-8

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.

PRESENTATIONS GO TOMORROW

DECISION:  We’re going to go straight through as fast as possible to get them out of the way before the weird schedule stuff next week.

PRESENTATION RUBRIC IS ON THE SEPT. 29 Blog Post

SLIDES/PRESENTATION = 50 percent

• Minimum 12 slides

ORGANIZATION/HOW GOOD THE SLIDES LOOK = 20 percent

YOUR DELIVERY = 30 percent

• Bonus points if you dress professionally
• Penalties/points taken away if you are a poor listener/inconsiderate.

 

FIRST HOUR

1. EMILY J
2. LOU M
3. DELANEY R
4. BRAILEY E
5. JACK S
6. NATE TWA
7. KYLER S
8. KENNEDY C
9. TRIN B
10. CONNOR W
11. TEAGUE W
12. ALEX K
13. RIVER S
14. ANDRE E
15. GABE R
16. ISSAC C
17. AUSTIN B
18. KELSEY  P
19. JONNA H
20. SKLYAR P
21. DREW S
22. ASHLEY L
23. TREVOR B
24. APPOLINE F

SECOND HOUR

1. VICTORIA J
2. COLE E
3. ANDY Z
4. ALICYN W
5. CHAYSE H
6. JOE B
7. BEN K
8. MEGAN S
9. BRETT J
10. MIGUEL P
11. SONORA S
12. DAKOTA K
13. MAX
14. WYATT(DAN)
15. GAVIN J
16. AIDEN
17. DYLAN
18. OSCAR
19. MARIA
20. KADEN
21. HANNAH
22. CARSON
23. EMMA
24. RILEY
25. MAVEN
26. LANCE
27. GAVIN Y
28. TESS
29. IVAN
30. BROKTON

FIFTH HOUR

1. RUSSO
2. FAIRFIELD
3. MERRILL
4. MARSMAN
5. PRELSENIK
6. RABIDEAU
7. LOVE
8. KILPATRICK
9. CHAVEZ
10. ALLEN
11. TRAXLER
12. CHMELKO
13. TUCKER
14. KING
15. JACKSON
16. HILL
17. DOUGLESS
18. FRANKE
19. BARLOW
20. BERGERON
21. GOSS
22. WALSH
23. CATES
24. WEAVER
25. KUYERS
26. ST. CROIX
27. SCHARPHORN
28. PLOESTER
29. HAGADORN
30. YKEMA

SIXTH HOUR

• LUBBERS
• CLIFFORD
• PETERSON
• BUTCHER
• LE
• MORTON
• MAGGIO
• VIRONDA
• LAW
• ANDREASSEN
• SHAW
• LAWS
• SHUMAKER
• TONGUE
• GURUNG
• JAMES
• KING
• COOPER
• BREMER
• TAYLOR
• DECKER
• HORNAK
• LEWIS
• EVANS
• BOSGRAF
• MERRIMAN
• FOX
• NYGARD
• MCINTYRE
• COSTELLO