Happy Leap Year! My uncle was born today and we always tease him and send him a b-day card that says, “Happy 14th Bday!” Happy Birthday, Uncle Bob! TGIF as well! Have a great weekend…
Okay, here’s what we did:
Juniors: I had a study guide for Monday’s test that you copied:
Material covered:
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Transcendentalist characteristics/concepts – be able to apply these to previous works and new works introduced on the test.
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Thoreau’s Walden – ideas and how they relate to the modern world and significance of ideas developed in this work.
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Transcendentalist Poetry — All 13 of them that you completed in your poetry groups
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Poetry Explication notes — Be very familiar with them and be able to apply concepts
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Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience – explain concepts and main ideas within essay
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Biographies: Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau
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Transcendentalist NPR podcast on Thoreau: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/walden/ Click on Jill Kaufman’s report. You can also click to listen to excerpts from Walden.
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Possible short answer questions: Compare and contrast two different works we studied, explain significance of Walden, explain concepts in a work we studied.
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In class, we read Whitman’s biography and in 6th period, I read a little bit about Annie Dillard to you and read you an excerpt from one of her essays.
HW: STUDY FOR YOUR TEST!
Sophomores: Remember to check your email boxes for my invite to our NING. Forum discussion question due at the latest on Saturday and your Hamlet vocabulary for your quiz on Tuesday. In your groups today, you read I:iv and I:v. You came up with 10 annotations on a sheet of paper and cited the line number(s) for each annotation, using only I:iv and I:v. These annotations were NOT TO BE PARAPHRASING OR SUMMARY but were to make critical thinking observations about: character development, plot development, Shakespeare’s literary word play, etc. These are due first thing on Monday. If you were absent, you need to do this over the weekend and be prepared for Monday’s quiz. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, will you be allowed to copy your group members’ work from today. Make sure you have the following in your Hamlet folder: A&E Shakespeare Biography notes, I:i questions, and your annotations from I:iv-v.
HW: Finish annotations and study for Act I quiz.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Breaux
