ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Using evidence from the book, defend/challenge/qualify whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a "tail of human frailty and sorrow"?
Monday 08/25/14
1. Do Now: Annotate the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking” for main/key idea(s) . . .
"Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man. . .”
2. Weekly
3. V3 pronunciation
4. TSL - quick reading quiz then back to "Prison-Door"
HW - 1. reread with CCSS and Long Form ever present 2. research the concept of Literary Transcendetalism (5w1h)
Tuesday 08/26/14
1. Do Now: Annotate the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking” for main/key idea(s) . . .
"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.”
2. Turn in your Narrative - staple rubric to the back
3. TSL ~ Transcendentalism Quiz and Log
4. TSL ~ Your turn - groups to prepare for presentation next class
HW - prep for pres
Thursday 08/28/14
1. Do Now: Annotate the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking” for main/key idea(s) . . .
“So we saunter toward the Holy Land; till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, so warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in Autumn."
2. V3 - Omnipotent, peruse, precursor, provincial, renegade, revere, seclude, supersede, transgression, viable, remonstrate, sanguine, strident, sublime, temporal, anachronism, anathema, aversion, blandishment, culpable
3. TSL Presentations
HW Free - I have to catch up . . .
