Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Tuesday, December 1 to Monday, December 7

Tuesday, December 1 (F-Day)
Due: Complete all vocabulary exercises, unit 6. Complete chart for Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Class: Homework review. Parallelism—in Emerson, in exercises.

Wednesday, December 2 (S-Day)
Due: Read excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, pp. 230-244 in textbook. Complete dialectic notes (3 passages) and compose 1 quality discussion question for each passage.
Class: Thoreau’s prescription for deliberate living. The darker side of solitude.

Thursday, December 3 (U-Day)
Due: Complete chart for Henry David Thoreau. Prepare for Socratic seminar.
Class: Socratic seminar.

Friday, December 4 (M-Day)
Due: Study for vocabulary quiz, unit 6. Complete Transcendentalist Visual Assignment.
Class: Vocabulary quiz, unit 6. Gallery walk. Influence of Hinduism on Transcendentalism.

Monday, December 5 (T-Day)
Due: Read Edward Hirsch’s “Message in a Bottle” (handout), pp. 347-350 in textbook, and selection from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (handout). Follow directions as given.
Class: Walt Whitman’s America and Whitman’s view of nature.

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