Engl 11 10/17/22

Mon, Oct 17, 2022

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Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell

Assignment:

    • Read and discuss Build Background, Analyze Literature, Set Purpose, Meet the Author

    • Assign journal ~ Reader's Context pg 139

    • Review literary terms rhetorical question, rhyme, and couplet.

    • Read pg 140 "Stanzas on Freedom" - Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

    • Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-5.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate the poem and recognize the intensity with which writers such as Lowell expressed their opposition to slavery.

  • understand how Lowell was influenced by the abolitionist movement.

  • analyze and understand rhetorical question, rhyme, and couplet.

Tue, Oct 18, 2022

  • Discuss "Stanzas on Freedom"

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Assignment:

    • Read and discuss Build Background, Analyze Literature, Set Purpose, Meet the Author

    • Assign journal ~ Reader's Context pg 142

    • Review literary terms mood and personification

    • Read pg 143 "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" - Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

    • Read pg 144-145 "A Psalm of Life" - Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

    • Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-5 pg 146

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate two lyric poems

  • analyze and understand mood and personification

Wed, Oct 19, 2022

  • Discuss "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" and "The Psalm of Life"

  • Introduce Transcendentalism pg 153-155

  • Read about Ralph Waldo Emerson pg 156

Assignment:: from "Nature" and "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Read and discuss Build Background, Analyze Literature, Set Purpose, Meet the Author

  • Assign journal ~ Reader's Context pg 157

  • Review literary terms argument and theme.

  • Read pgs 158-161 from "Nature" - Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

  • Read pg 162 "The Rhodora" - Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

  • Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-5 on pg 163.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate the essay and the poem, and understand the speaker's belief in a universal beauty and truth.

  • understand the influence of Transcendentalism on Emerson.

  • identify common themes and styles in Emerson's works.

  • analyze and understand argument and theme.

Thu, Oct 20, 2022

  • Discuss "Nature and "The Rhodora

  • Read Author Study -- Henry David Thoreau

from "Walden"

Assignment

  • Read and discuss Build Background, Analyze Literature

  • Assign journal ~ Reader's Context pg 169

  • Review literary terms purpose and tone.

  • Read pgs 170-178 Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W) pg 178

  • Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-5 on pg 181.

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate Thoreau's description of his year at Walden Pond and state the theme of the essay: that individuals should live as simply and as close to nature as they can have.

  • compare and contrast the essay with one by Annie Dillard.

  • identify Thoreau's role as a Transcendentalist.

  • analyze and understand purpose and tone.

Fri, Oct 21, 2022

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