English 3P Honors: Weekly Update 12.8-12.12

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 12.8 Thoreau Progress Check

Unit GoalWrite 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 essays from “Walden” and “Resistance to Civil Government”, students will be able to identify MASTERY LEVEL OF THEIR ABILITY TO ANALYZE how the author uses imagery to convey his ideas about INDIVIDUALITY & SOCIETY by completing Romanticism Progress Check 2.0.

Handouts: N/A

Homework: N/A

Tuesday 12.9 Thoreau Progress Check Assessment

Unit GoalWrite 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 essays from “Walden” and “Resistance to Civil Government”, students will be able to identify MASTERY LEVEL OF THEIR ABILITY TO ANALYZE how the author uses imagery to convey his ideas about INDIVIDUALITY & SOCIETY by assessing Romanticism Progress Check 2.0.

Handouts: Romanticism Learning Scale

Homework: N/A

Wednesday 12.10 Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe

Unit GoalWrite 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: By reading and annotating Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”, students will be able to: 1.) compare philosophical attitudes and themes communicated through allegory and 2.) analyze the effect of imagery, figures of speech and symbolism to communicate views on DEATH.

Handouts: Notes,

Homework: Read The Pit and the Pendulum pp. 257-269, Complete Reading Guide Analysis

Thursday 12.11 “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

Unit GoalWrite 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: By reading and annotating Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”, students will be able to: 1.) compare philosophical attitudes and themes communicated through allegory and 2.) analyze the effect of imagery, figures of speech and symbolism to communicate views on DEATH.

Handouts: Notes,

Homework: Read The Pit and the Pendulum pp. 257-269, Complete Reading Guide Analysis

Friday 12.12 “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

Unit GoalWrite 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: By reading and annotating Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”, students will be able to: 1.) compare philosophical attitudes and themes communicated through allegory and 2.) analyze the effect of imagery, figures of speech and symbolism to communicate views on DEATH.

Handouts:  Says Means Matters Summarize 

Homework: Read The Pit and the Pendulum pp. 257-269, Complete Reading Guide Analysis