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 Self Reliance
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 “Self Reliance”, students will be able to identify how the author uses metaphor to convey his ideas about the individual and SOCIETY.
Handouts: Self Reliance, Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes
Homework: Summarize “Self-Reliance” and Read Walt Whitman’s excerpt Number 52 from “Song of Myself”
Wednesday 12.3 Metaphor and Self- Reliance
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 “Self-Reliance”, students will be able to identify how the author uses metaphor to convey his ideas about Nature, the individual, and SOCIETY by completing SAYS MEANS MATTERS TEMPLATE and SUMMARY.
Handouts: Nature, Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes, Says Means Matters, Analytical Summary
Homework: Summarize “Self-Reliance” and RRead Walt Whitman’s excerpt Number 52 from “Song of Myself”
Thursday 12.4 Emerson Progress Check
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 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: Self Reliance, Nature, Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes, Says Means Matters, Analytical Summary
Homework: Thoreau Quote Analysis
Friday 12.5 Emerson Progress Check 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 close reading an excerpt 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 assessing Romanticism Progress Check 1.0.
Handouts: Self Reliance, Nature, Emerson’s Transcendentalism Notes, Says Means Matters, Analytical Summary
Homework: Thoreau Quote Analysis