English 3P Honors: Weekly Update 11.17-11.21

WARNING:  This is a tentative calendar for the week.  I post this to provide my students with an opportunity to preview the week and to help them plan accordingly.  Sometimes things go exactly as planned and it is amazing. Sometimes they don’t because we might finish an objective faster than anticipated.  Sometimes, what I believed would take ten minutes at the beginning of class ends up taking an entire class.  Sometimes there are some mornings when I get ideas and decide to change EVERYTHING because something else seems better.  Anyways, you get the picture: TENTATIVE means maybe, if time allows, perhaps.  As my grandmother used to say, “we make plans and the universe laughs”.

Monday 11.17 Imagery in Nature

Unit Goal: Write an essay that defines American Romanticism’s views of TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE and examines their use of stylistic devices such as imagery, figures of speech, paradox and symbolism to communicate philosophical attitudes and themes.

Objective: After close reading an excerpt of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay’s Nature, students will be able to identify how the author uses imagery to convey his ideas about NATURE and SOCIETY by completing SAYS MEANS MATTERS TEMPLATE.

Handouts: Nature, Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes, Says Means Matters, Analytical Summary

Homework: Notebooks due 11.21, District Writing Assessment THIS THURSDAY 11.20

Tuesday 11.18 Romanticism Progress Check 1.0

Unit Goal: Write an essay that defines American Romanticism’s views of TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE and examines their use of stylistic devices such as imagery, figures of speech, paradox and symbolism to communicate philosophical attitudes and themes.

Objective: After close reading William Cullen Bryant’s poem “Thanatopsis” and excerpts of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays “Nature” and “Self Reliance”, students will be able to identify MASTERY LEVEL OF THEIR ABILITY TO ANALYZE how the author uses imagery to convey his ideas about NATURE and SOCIETY by completing Romanticism Progress Check 1.0.

Handouts: Nature, Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes, Says Means Matters, Analytical Summary

Homework: Notebooks due 11.21

Wednesday 11.19 Henry David Thoreau

Unit Goal: Write an essay that defines American Romanticism’s views of TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE and examines their use of stylistic devices such as imagery, figures of speech, paradox and symbolism to communicate philosophical attitudes and themes.

Objective: After viewing a background video on Henry David Thoreau, and participating in Graffitti Wall Discussion, students will be able to write a paragraph that describes the background and cultural influence of Transcendentalism.  

Handouts: Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes

Homework: Read Walden pp. 189-206, Notebooks due 11.21, District Writing Assessment THIS THURSDAY 11.20

Thursday 11.20 District Writing Assessment

Unit Goal: Write an essay that defines American Romanticism’s views of TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE and examines their use of stylistic devices such as imagery, figures of speech, paradox and symbolism to communicate philosophical attitudes and themes.

Objective: After viewing a background video on Henry David Thoreau, and participating in Graffitti Wall Discussion, students will be able to write a paragraph that describes the background and cultural influence of Transcendentalism.  

Handouts: Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes

Homework: Read Walden pp. 189-206, Notebooks due 11.21, District Writing Assessment THIS THURSDAY 11.20

Friday 11.21 Walden

Unit Goal: Write an essay that defines American Romanticism’s views of TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE and examines their use of stylistic devices such as imagery, figures of speech, paradox and symbolism to communicate philosophical attitudes and themes.

Objective: After close reading an excerpt of Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walden”, students will be able to identify how the author uses METAPHORS to convey his ideas about NATURE and SOCIETY by completing SAYS MEANS MATTERS TEMPLATE. 

Handouts: Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes

Homework: Read Walden pp. 189-206, Notebooks due 11.21, District Writing Assessment THIS THURSDAY 11.20