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 12.1 Non Student Day
Tuesday 12.2 Introduction to 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: Thoreau Transcendentalism, Walden p. 189-206
Homework: Summarize Walden
Wednesday 12.3 Henry David Thoreau & from “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 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: Thoreau Transcendentalism, Walden p. 189-206
Homework: Summarize Walden
Thursday 12.4 Henry David Thoreau & from “Civil Disobedience”
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 reading from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience”, students will be able to identify the author’s use of figurative language and paradox to convey his central claim and write a paragraph that describes the the influence of Transcendentalist ideas on 20th Century Nonviolent Resistance Movements.
Handouts: Says Means Matters, Summarize
Homework: Read from “Civil Disobedience” pp. 189-206, Notebooks due 11.21, District Writing Assessment THIS THURSDAY 11.20
Friday 12.5 Henry David Thoreau & from “Civil Disobedience”
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 “Self-Reliance”, 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: Says Means Matters Summarize
Homework: Read from “On Nonviolent Resistance” by Mohandas Ghandi and “Letter from Birmingham” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pp. 220-222