English 3P Weekly Updates: 1.4-1.8

Monday: Progress Check Revision

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: By reading and annotating Transcendentalist literature, students will be able to: 1.) identify author’s argument 2.) analyze the effect of imagery, figures of speech and symbolism to communicate views on NATURE.

AGENDA: 1. Review Objective for Progress Check Assessments for Edgar Allan Poe & Nathaniel Hawthorne 2. Progress Check Revision Guide

Handouts: Progress Check Revision GuideRomanticism Learning Scale

Homework: N/A

Tuesday: Romanticism Unit Final Draft

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: By reviewing the definition of Romanticism and the historical background of unit’s author’s, students will be able to write an introduction and background for Unit Final Essay.

AGENDA: 1. Review Final Instructions and Rubric 2.) Write introduction and historical background

Handouts: Romanticism Final, Romanticism Essay Guide, Final Editing CHECKLIST

Homework: Essay due on January 11 in Google Classroom, Hard copy is due in class along with all previous progress checks.

Wednesday: Introduction to Realism

UNIT GOAL: Write an expository essay that evaluates how REALIST artists and author’s effectively use ethos, pathos, and/or logos to communicate and support and their ideas about (in)justice.

Objective: Students can define features of American Realism as a cultural and intellectual movement that arose out of conditions of late 19th Century by completing notes and summarizing knowledge in formal paragraph.

AGENDA:  Introduction to Realism

Homework: Essay due on January 11

Thursday: Introduction to Frederick Douglass

UNIT GOAL: Write an expository essay that evaluates how REALIST artists and author’s effectively use ethos, pathos, and/or logos to communicate and support and their ideas about (in)justice.

Objective: By reading and annotating American Realist literature, students will be able to 1.)  evaluate philosophical attitudes and views of “justice” and 2.) analyze the effect of imagery, figures of speech, and use of rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and logos across genres.

AGENDA: I.  Pre-Reading: Background Video,  Introduction to Frederick Douglass

Homework: Essay due on January 11

Friday: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass

UNIT GOAL: Write an expository essay that evaluates how REALIST artists and author’s effectively use ethos, pathos, and/or logos to communicate and support and their ideas about (in)justice.

Objective: By reading and annotating American Realist literature, students will be able to 1.)  evaluate philosophical attitudes and views of “justice” and 2.) analyze the effect of imagery, figures of speech, and use of rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and logos across genres.

AGENDAFrederick Douglass, Read & Annotate What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Homework: Essay due on January 11