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Assignment
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Agenda:
¡Textbook
¡Syllabus
¡About me
¡Mandala Assignment
Homework:
¡Cover books by Friday
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Wed, Aug 18
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Agenda:
¡5 Mandalas
¡American Romanticism
¡Begin reading “Rip Van Winkle”
Homework:
¡Read and learn “Rip Van Winkle” pp. 153-165
¡Find as many examples as you can of each of Satire, Slapstick, and Comically inflated descriptions (chart online)
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Fri, Aug 20
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Agenda:
¡Book Cover Check
¡Discuss “Rip”
Homework:
using whatever poetry
comprehension tools that you
normally use. Please type up a
paragraph about how you
approach difficult poetry. Bring your
typed paragraph to class.
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Mon, Aug 23
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Agenda:
¡How we interpret difficult poetry
¡TPCASTT
¡Discuss “Thanatopsis”
Homework:
¡Read “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” and “The Cross of Snow” (pp. 176-179) and thoroughly annotate one of the two using TPCASTT. Bring your annotations on a separate sheet of paper to class.
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Wed, Aug 25
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Agenda:
¡Finish discussing “Thanatopsis”
¡Discuss “Tide Rises” and “Cross of Snow”
Homework:
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Fri, Aug 27
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Agenda:
¡Freewrite
¡Finish Longfellow discussion
¡Poetry assignment
Homework:
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Mon, Aug 30
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Agenda:
¡Transcendentalism
¡Read “Nature”
Homework:
¡Finish reading Emerson’s “Nature”
¡Keep a dialectical journal with the 5 most important quotes in the left hand column and your personal insights into these quotes in the right column.
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Wed, Sep 1
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Agenda:
¡Thesis Statements
¡“Nature” discussion
Homework:
¡Read Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” (pp. 224-225).
Dialectical journal with five striking quotations and your reactions. |
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Fri, Sep 3
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Agenda:
¡Discuss “Self-Reliance”
¡Thoreau video
Homework:
¡Look up Henry David Thoreau on Wikipedia and read the article.
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Mon, Sep 6
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Wed, Sep 8
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Fri, Sep 10
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Mon, Sep 13
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Wed, Sep 15
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Mon, Sep 20
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Fri, Sep 24
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Mon, Sep 27
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Wed, Sep 29
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Mon, Oct 4
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Wed, Oct 6
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Fri, Oct 8
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Mon, Oct 11
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Wed, Oct 13
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Fri, Oct 15
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Mon, Oct 18
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Wed, Oct 20
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Fri, Oct 22
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Mon, Oct 25
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Mon, Nov 8
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Fri, Nov 12
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Mon, Nov 15
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Wed, Nov 17
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Fri, Nov 19
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Mon, Nov 22
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Wed, Nov 24
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No School |
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Fri, Nov 26
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Mon, Nov 29
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Wed, Dec 1
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Fri, Dec 3
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Mon, Dec 6
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Wed, Dec 8
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Mon, Dec 13
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Wed, Dec 15
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Fri, Dec 17
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