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Date

Assignment

Mon, Aug 16   —Agenda:
¡Textbook
¡Syllabus
¡About me
¡Mandala Assignment
—Homework:
¡Cover books by Friday
¡Mandalas due Wednesday

Wed, Aug 18

  —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)

Fri, Aug 20

 —Agenda:

¡Book Cover Check
 
¡Discuss “Rip”
 
—Homework:
 
¡Read Thanatopsis (pp. 170-172)
 
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.
 
   

Mon, Aug 23

 —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.

 Wed, Aug 25

  —Agenda:
¡Finish discussing “Thanatopsis
¡Discuss “Tide Rises” and “Cross of Snow”
—Homework:

 Fri, Aug 27

  —Agenda:
¡Freewrite
¡Finish Longfellow discussion
¡Poetry assignment
—Homework:
¡Finish poetry assignment by Friday
   

Mon, Aug 30

  —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.

Wed, Sep 1

  —Agenda:
¡Thesis Statements
¡“Nature” discussion
—Homework:
¡Read Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” (pp. 224-225).
Dialectical journal with five striking quotations and your reactions.

Fri, Sep 3

  —Agenda:
¡Discuss “Self-Reliance”
¡Thoreau video
—Homework:
¡Look up Henry David Thoreau on Wikipedia and read the article.
   

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