Poe and Personal Narratives

So - we are finally moving on to fiction of the Romantic Period: Poe and Hawthorne. 

Monday/Tuesday: Read “The Fall of the House of Usher” on page 410-431 and answer question 1-4 and 6-8 on page 432.  You can do this as a group.

Wednesday/Thursday: Work on the next draft of your personal narratives.  These narratives will be due on Monday 11/4.

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Learning Goal: Students will evaluate purposes and arguments in works of public advocacy.

Today we will read "Woman in the Nineteenth Century", discuss the Fuller's arguments and then answer questions on page 408 (#1-5).

Thoreau

Today we will read "On Civil Disobedience" by Gandi and "Thoreau Still Beckons, if I Can Take My Laptop".

You will also do questions 1-4 and 7 (as a group) on page 397.

Civil Disobedience

Learning Goal: Determine the central ideas of a text and analyze their development; provide an objective summary of the text.

Today's Objective: Read "from Civil Disobedience" and determine the theme that Thoreau develops and then write a summary of the text using specific examples to back up your ideas.

 

First we will do the questions on page 388 from yesterday and review "from Walden".

Henry David Thoreau

Learning Goal: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development; provide an objective summary of the text.

Today's Objective: Read "from Walden" and determine two themes that Thoreau develops and then write these themes and how Thoreau develops them with a summary of the text.

HW: questions 1-4, 6 and 7 on page 388.

We will be reading Thoreau for the next few days.  He is the most important essayists of the 19th century - so important that the two essays you're read hit Common Core Standards RI2, RI4, RI5, RI6, and RI9.

Smile. 

Emerson

Learning Goal: RI2, Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how they develop over the course of the text

Today's Objective: Identify Emerson's theme in "Nature" and discuss how he expands upon the idea. 

What we will do today: Read the background information of Emerson, read the essay "Nature", discuss the theme and ways he develops it.  Write on our blogs about the theme and its development.


HW: Questions 1-3 and 6 on page 375.

The Transcendentalists

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance"

Learning Goal: RI2, Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how they develop over the course of the text

Today's Objective: Identify Emerson's theme in "Self-Reliance" and discuss how he expands upon the idea. 

What we will do today: Read the background information of Emerson, read the essay "Self-Reliance", discuss the theme and ways he develops it.  Write on our blogs about the theme and its development.

Finally - take a survey.

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Learning Goal: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to the overall meaning of a text as a whole.  

Objective: Be able to discuss the importance of rhyme scheme and stanza structure. 

Today, we are going read Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life" and relate it to the question: What Gives Life Purpose.  We will look at rhyme scheme and stanza structure.  At the end of class you will write a blog about how rhyme scheme and stanza structure help determine meaning in this poem. 

You will also take a survey (you can find this on the side of the blog).

HW: Answer questions 2, 3, 4, and 5 on page 347.

American Romanticism 1800 - 1855

Today we'll review the overview of the the period. 

Learning Goal:  Students will demonstrate knowledge of 19th century foundational works of American Literature according themes, purpose and rhetorical features.

In order to review, each of you will be given one section of the overview to outline and teach to class.  You'll have 20 minutes to outline.

Section: Romanticism Historical Context (305-307)

Donovan, Hannah, Zack

Section: Romantic Literature

Rosalie and Taylor


After your presentations we will be looking at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on page 342.

Personal Narratives - Workshop

Learning Goal: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

Today is Columbus Day (in the old textbooks there is a informative text called, "The Devastation of the West Indies" which makes Columbus out to be a fabulous guy).  We will continue with the workshop of your personal narratives.  I've moved the due date back for the 2nd draft until Friday.  Those of you who are out of town can email it to me at fieldingkent@hotmail.com or kfielding@skagwayschool.org

Tomorrow, we will move on to American Romanticism (1800-1855).  As part of these Unit we will read The Scarlet Letter.  Homework tonight, read the introduction to this period, pages 302-3110.

Writing Workshop

Learning Goal: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. 

We are going to workshop your personal narratives on the Smart Board, and then play vocabulary charades to review your vocabulary words.  

Please, when you comment the narratives follow these rules:

1) Everyone is expected to comment on each narrative
2) Look for the big picture and apply the learning goal above
3) Make sure you pick out good things as well as things that need improvement
4) Constructive criticism only
5) Remember you trying to help the writer revise - content - not just edit grammar (so say things like you need more detail here or you need to explain this event or idea, or ask, how can this concept relate to a greater or more universal idea?)

Personal Narratives

Learning Goal: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. 

We are going to workshop your personal narratives on the Smart Board.  Please, when you comment the narratives follow these rules:

1) Everyone is expected to comment on each narrative
2) Look for the big picture and apply the learning goal above
3) Make sure you pick out good things as well as things that need improvement
4) Constructive criticism only
5) Remember you trying to help the writer revise - content - not just edit grammar (so say things like you need more detail here or you need to explain this event or idea, or ask, how can this concept relate to a greater or more universal idea?)

Hey fun!

Personal Narratives

Learning Goal: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

Today, we need to review your Tests on "Colonial Literature", work with the words of the day, move on to talking about the six steps in the writing process (and what you've done in each step), talk about your controlling idea (or thesis statement if you have one), and then wrote on writing.  Remember, when you write these ask yourself, WHAT IS MY PURPOSE IN WRITING THIS? (Sound familiar?)

Tomorrow - we will begin to review and revise as a class your Narratives.  We will put the narratives on the Smart Board and discuss them as a class (this is called workshopping).

Friday's Assignment

Begin your first draft of the your personal narrative.  Remember, you should already have some pre-writing post on your blog.  Use this if it works for you.  Remember to follow the six steps of THE WRITING PROCESS:

1) Prewriting (done)
2) Organizing (outline your ideas)
3) Write (1st draft)
4) Revise (2nd and 3rd draft)
5) Edit (fix conventions of writing: grammar, sentence errors)
6) Publish

You should only be working on 1-3 today. 

adverb clauses, adjective clauses, noun clauses

Adverb clauses go here

Adjective clauses go here

Noun clauses go here

Take the quiz here to practice, and then do the following:

    Identifying Subordinate Clauses. Underline the subordinate clause in each of these complex sentences, Write whether it is a Noun, Adjective, or Adverb clause.

            1. When the shipment arrives we will collect the money.__________________________

            2. The club, which welcomes visitors, meets on Tuesdays. ________________________

            3. Diving is a skill that requires concentration. __________________________________

            4. Experts predicted that the election would be close. _____________________________

            5. Do you know where the Greek restaurant is? _________________________________

            6. Is that the flute that you carved? ___________________________________________

            7. Terry didn’t hear what the score was. _______________________________________

            8. The trees that David planted are elms. _______________________________________

            9. Homework was collected before class started._________________________________

            10. Peg phoned the store when her order was not delivered. ________________________