Wednesday

 

Civil Disobedience

Learning Goal: Determine the central ideas of a text and analyze their development; provide an objective summary of the text.


Today's Objective: Read "from Civil Disobedience" and determine the theme that Thoreau develops and then write a summary of the text using specific examples to back up your ideas. We will also be looking at "From Walden" if we have time.
 

HW: questions 1-4, 6 and 7 on page 388.
 




 
 



 
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Monday, November 28, 2022

Monday - afterbreak

 Today, I'll give you some class time to work on your essays. These need to be done by Wednesday. We will also read Thoreau in your textbooks.

Learning Goal: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development; provide an objective summary of the text.

Today's Objective: Read "from Walden" (page 380) and determine a theme that Thoreau develops through the essay.

HW: questions 1-4, 6 and 7 on page 388.

We will be reading Thoreau for the next few days. 


If you left your book at school here is a link: https://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/student/ebook_gr11/osp/data/u2_walden_civil_se.pdf

Reading Schedule:
 

11/28 -11/29 Thoreau - From Walden (page 380)

11/30 - Emerson - "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" (page 369) 

12/1 - Margaret Fuller - "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (page 402)

12/2 - 12/5 - Poe - "Fall of the House of Usher" (page 410)

12/6 - Fireside Poets - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes (page 342)
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Monday, November 14, 2022

Week onf 11/14 - 11/18

 

 

11/14 – Read chapters 23-24

11/15 Finish Dialectical Journals
11/16 Test

11/17 – 11/18 Work on Essay for The Scarlet Letter

 

 Please send me your essays as soon as you have the introduction written. Remember to consider a theme when looking at literary elements such as symbols, characters, structure, choice of details, as everything in the book should reinforce theme.

 

Unit Learning goal: Students will demonstrate knowledge of nineteenth century foundation works of American Literature by determining how a theme is developed over the course of text by analyzing structure, author’s choice of details, and character; and, by writing a 3-5 page essay on how these elements (or one of them) influences the meaning of the novel as a whole.

 

 

 

Analytical Essay Rubric

 

 

4

3

2

1

Thesis, opening paragraph. 

Student takes a clear position on the prompt/topic.  Thesis Statement is defensible.  Hook and thesis statement link.  Order of development is present and sets up how the thesis will be investigated.  Thesis connects prompt to the text as a whole.

Student has a clear and defensible thesis statement.

 

Thesis connects prompt to the text as a whole.

 

Essay contains a hook.

Thesis statement is attempted,

 

But – maybe not be defendable. 

 

May not be clear.  May be wordy.

 

May not connect to the text as a whole.

There is no recognizable thesis statement.

 

Or there may be multiple thesis statements.

Use of Evidence

Evidence is introduced and relevant to the thesis and analysis is thorough makes clear how the evidence connects to and defends the thesis.  Evidence is properly cited. (3-4 pieces of evidence per point)

Evidence is introduced and relevant to the thesis.  The analysis makes connection between evidence and thesis, but the quality and/or quantity is inconsistent.  Evidence is cited.

(2 pieces of evidence per point)

 

Evidence is relevant to the thesis and there is some analysis attempted, but the analysis may be taken out of context, misinterpreted, or oversimplified. 

 

(2 pieces of evidence per point)

Evidence is attempted, but may not defend thesis or there is no connection made between evidence and the thesis. 

 

No direct quotation, or citations. 

Sophistication of Writing

Use of prose style that is especially vivid.  Student uses rhetorical strategies such as parallel structure.  Varied syntax.  High level vocabulary.   Language consistent for an academic essay.

Student uses varied syntax.  Some high level vocabulary present.  Prose style is engaging.  Language consistent for an academic essay.

Student attempts varied syntax.  Vocabulary might be simplistic or repetitious.  Prose style is sometimes engaging but might be repetitious of ideas.  Language may not be consistent for an academic essay

Wordy, repetitious.  Vocabulary might be repetitious or the use of “to be” verbs may be overused.  Not engaging.

Grammar

No Errors

1-3 errors that do not distract from reading.

More than 3 errors, or the errors present distract from reading.

Many errors.  Errors seriously distract from the reading of the text.

Length

 

More than 5 pages

3-5 pages

Less than 3 pages

Less than 1 page

 

 

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Friday, November 11, 2022

Friday

Today we are going to review The Scarlet Letter and look at chapter 22.

https://sites.google.com/a/skagwayschool.org/mr-fielding/american-romanticism 

Scarlet Letter

 

1)    List and explain the meaning of three symbols in the novel.  Discuss how these symbols reinforce a larger theme (note – details details details)

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

2)    Outline the plot of the Scarlet Letter.  Give at least three events in the rising action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3)    Discuss how the three scaffold scenes are used as a structure device in the novel.  Why is this structure important?

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

4)    Discuss the importance of the following characters (tell me everything you know about them)

 

Pearl:

 

 

 

 

Hester:

 

 

 

 

Dimmesdale:

 

 

 

 

Chillingsworth:

 

 

 

Mistress Hibbins:

 

 

 

 

 

Governor Bellingham:

 

 

 

 

 

Rev. Wilson

 

 

 

 

The crowd of women at the beginning:

 

 

 

 

 

 

5)    What is Hawthorne’s tone towards the Puritan society?  How can you prove this?

 

 

 


 

 

      6-8) Discuss the following themes and give – in detail – three scenes that

               reinforce these themes:

 

 

 

A)   Public Guilt vs Private Guilt

 

 

B)   The Nature of Evil

 

 

 

 

C)    Exile

 

 

9) What do you think is the most important message in The Scarlet Letter?  Make sure you are exact in your discussion

 

 

 https://study.com/academy/lesson/climax-of-the-scarlet-letter.html

 


 

 

 


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Thursday, November 10, 2022

The Scarlet Letter

 Today we will be looking at chapters 21-22. Tomorrow we will be review for the test.

THE SCARLET LETTER

Unit Learning goal: Students will demonstrate knowledge of nineteenth century foundation works of American Literature by determining how a theme is developed over the course of text by analyzing structure, author’s choice of details, and character; and, by writing an essay on how these elements (or one of them) influences the meaning of the novel as a whole.



Scale/Rubric relating to learning goal:
4 – The student can write a 5-10 page essay that explores how structure, details (symbol, imagery, figurative language) is developed of the course of the novel and how it influences the meaning of the novel.
3 – The student can write a 3-5 page essay that explores how structure, details (symbol, imagery, figurative language) is developed of the course of the novel and how it influences the meaning of the novel.
2 – With some direction/help from the teacher the student can write a 3-5 page essay that explores how structure, details (symbol, imagery, figurative language) is developed of the course of the novel and how it influences the meaning of the novel.
1 – Even with help from the teacher the student is unable to the student can write a 3-5 page essay that explores how structure, details (symbol, imagery, figurative language) is developed of the course of the novel and how it influences the meaning of the novel.

Objectives (smaller chunks of overall goal) and suggested time periods

At the end of this Unit the Students will be able to

1)  List and explain 3-5 symbols from the novel The Scarlet Letter
2)  Discuss the basic structure(s) of The Scarlett Letter
3)  Given the main ideas of various pieces of Romantic Literature
4)  List the key aspects of Romanticism
5)  List the key aspects of transcendentalism
6)  Discuss who the Fireside poets were and what they believed in
7)  Keep a dialectical journal while reading The Scarlet Letter
8)  Evaluate the purpose and argument of public advocacy
9)  Determine two or more themes in a text
10)          Discuss the importance of rhyme scheme and stanza structure and how they create meaning
11)          Compare Emerson and Thoreau 

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Wednesday

 Today we need to discuss what you read yesterday and look at the next two chapters.


11/9 chapter 19-20
11/10 chapter 21-22
11/11 Review for test. 


 

 


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