English 3P Honors: Weekly Updates 1.5-1.9

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 1.5 Edgar Allan Poe 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 Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” and short story “The Pit and the Pendulum”, students will be able to provide evidence OF THEIR ABILITY TO ANALYZE how the author uses symbolism and unreliable narrator to convey his ideas about TRUTH AND DEATH by completing Romanticism Progress Check 2.3.Handouts: N/A

Homework: Quarter 2 Benchmark 1.21, Notebooks Due 1.23

Tuesday 1.6 Edgar Allan Poe 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 Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”, students will be able to ASSESS evidence OF THEIR ABILITY TO ANALYZE how the author uses symbolism and unreliable narrator to convey his ideas about TRUTH AND DEATH by completing Romanticism Progress Check 2.3.

Handouts: N/A

Homework:  Quarter 2 Benchmark 1.21, Notebooks Due 1.23

Wednesday 1.7 Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, students will be able to identify the author’s use of symbolism,  allegory, and parable to convey his ROMANTIC views about TRUTH and DEATH.

Handouts: Notes, The Minister’s Black Veil, Says Means Matters

Homework: Read “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” pp. 228-229, Quarter 2 Benchmark 1.21, Notebooks Due 1.23

Friday 1.9 “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, students will be able to identify the author’s use of symbolism, allegory, and parable to convey his ROMANTIC views about TRUTH and DEATH.

Handouts: Notes, The Minister’s Black Veil, Says Means Matters

Homework: Read “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” pp. 228-229, Quarter 2 Benchmark 1.21, Notebooks Due 1.23