ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
1. Using evidence from the book, defend/challenge/qualify whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a "tail of human frailty and sorrow"?
2. What does ancestral guilt have to do with anything?
3. How do I discern the overall purpose of ____/____/____?
4. How do literary elements affect the overall purpose?
2. What does ancestral guilt have to do with anything?
3. How do I discern the overall purpose of ____/____/____?
4. How do literary elements affect the overall purpose?
Tuesday 09/02/14 - Thursday Sched.
1. Do Now: on your own paper, create a Venn Diagram or any other graphic organizer form to compare/contrast the concepts or specific diction from The Scarlet Letter and the following excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking” . . .
"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. . .”
"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.”
“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. Turn in your Do Now and then read the Weekly aloud together
3. V4 pronunciation
4. TSL
- quick reading quiz on chps. 9-13
- group presentations 4-8
- back to chps. 9-13
- people from chapter 3 to divide into other groups so there are now 5 total groups (chps. 4-8 remain the same plus 1 person from chapter 3 joining you now)
- chp. 4 takes 9, chp. 5 takes 10, chp. 6 takes 11, chp. 7 takes 12, chp. 8 takes 13
- same task - prepare to share next class - read even more closely
HW - 1. skim Tangerine chp. 28 before we begin chp. 29 next class - if you don't understand 28 then 29 will be problematic for you and you alone
- quick reading quiz on chps. 9-13
- group presentations 4-8
- back to chps. 9-13
- people from chapter 3 to divide into other groups so there are now 5 total groups (chps. 4-8 remain the same plus 1 person from chapter 3 joining you now)
- chp. 4 takes 9, chp. 5 takes 10, chp. 6 takes 11, chp. 7 takes 12, chp. 8 takes 13
- same task - prepare to share next class - read even more closely
HW - 1. skim Tangerine chp. 28 before we begin chp. 29 next class - if you don't understand 28 then 29 will be problematic for you and you alone
Thursday 09/04/14 - Thursday Sched.
1. Do Now: Annotate main ideas and com/con concepts/spec.dict. on the handout which has excerpts from Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. V4 - Abridge, alleviate, antipathy, belie, bolster, chide, contend, deflect, diffident, elusive, transcend, undulate, acquiesce, archaic, ardent, deprecate, doleful, entourage, expunge, fortitude
3. Tangerine chp. 29 on pp. 661- 718 - the breakdown of sections
3. Tangerine chp. 29 on pp. 661- 718 - the breakdown of sections
4. TSL ~ wherever we left off last time
HW - T29 section 1, TSL 14-18, v5, + whatever audible I call
