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.