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.
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
c. Web Resource: http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp
HOMEWORK: Hobbes and Rousseau on Human Nature, One Pager For Summer Reading DUE FRIDAY,
Thursday : Human Nature Socratic Seminar Preparation
Due: Annotations and Questions for Hobbes and Rousseau
Objective: After annotating passages from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “Discourse 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 Hobbes’ Leviathan and from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s “Discourse 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