English 3P Honors: Weekly Updates for 9.14-9.18

Monday: What is America & American Identity?

Unit Goal: In a TIMED WRITE ESSAY, SWBAT describe how Early American texts and genres explored and communicated views of human nature through the use of the rhetorical triangle, imagery, and figurative language.

ObjectiveStudents will discuss and define concept of AMERICA and AMERICAN IDENTITY by participating in concept attainment activity and FOUR SQUARE discussion.  

Handouts: INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK RUBRIC, Introduction to Encounters and Foundations

HOMEWORK: One Pager For Summer Reading DUE FRIDAY

Tuesday & Wednesday: Historical Context of Early American Literature & Culture

Objective: After participating in a GALLERY WALK, students will be able to explain the effects of European settlements on native populations and compare Rationalist and Puritan views of human nature, God, and government by completing a Gallery Walk Pamphlet.

a. Gallery Walk Images and Text

b. Gallery Walk Pamphlet

c. Web Resource: http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp

HOMEWORK: Hobbes and Rousseau on Human NatureOne Pager For Summer Reading DUE FRIDAY,

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Thursday : Human Nature Socratic Seminar Preparation

Due: Annotations and Questions for Hobbes and Rousseau

Objective: After annotating passages from Thomas HobbesLeviathan and from Jean Jacques Rousseau’sDiscourse on Inequality” students will be able compare and contrast Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “state of nature”  to those expressed by John Steinbeck’s East of Eden in a Socratic Seminar to understand European influence of Early American literature.  

c. Socratic Seminar Instructions, Questions Guide, Socratic Seminar Prep, and Socratic Seminar Outer Circle

Friday: Human Nature Socratic Seminar

HOMEWORK: One Pager For Summer Reading DUE FRIDAY

After annotating passages from Thomas HobbesLeviathan and from Jean Jacques Rousseau’sDiscourse on Inequality” students will be able compare and contrast Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “state of nature” in a Socratic Seminar to understand European influence of Early American literature.  

c. Socratic Seminar Instructions, Questions Guide, Socratic Seminar Prep, and Socratic Seminar Outer Circle