Please put the desks back in rows.

1. Please put the desks back in rows. • Please turn in your homework (chart) and take out your journals. • If you have any of my markers, please return them—I am missing a couple dozen since we read “The Raven.” Journal #19 • In what ways are humans connected to nature or the natural world? • What can humans learn from nature?

2. Third Quarter Independent Reading11th Grade Extended Reading Titles • CHOICE SHEETS DUE TOMORROW. • Mark your first and second choices on the book list for those books coming from the school library. • If you plan to bring in your own copy of the book, mark which book you will be reading and note that you will bring your own copy on the form. • You will write an in-class timed writing about the book on MONDAY, APRIL 12.

3. “Analyzing Literature” (pg. 269) • Each group assigned one of the four questions to discuss. • After thoroughly discussing the question, EACH INDIVIDUAL write your own response (shoot for about a half page). • Include TWO examples from the essay in your response and be sure to explain how the examples relate. • When you finish your responses, get some dictionaries (4 per group) and complete the vocabulary for “Self-Reliance” (#12-18 on the study guide).

4. Tonight’s homework: • 1. “Self-Reliance” questions 1-9 • 2. Analogies 1-4

5. Please take out: • your homework • your Emerson reading packet and study guide worksheet • your independent reading book choice form

6. Vocabulary Quiz – Monday, March 2 • 25 WORDS: • 18 vocabulary words from the Transcendentalism/Emerson study guide • Vocabulary from the analogies: • neophyte (n) • invalid (n) • pugilist (n) • erudite (adj) • sentinel (n) • tenet (n) • theologian (n) • For each word: spell correctly, define, identify part of speech, use correctly in an original sentence.

7. Essay response to “Thinking and Writing” (Emerson packet pg. 271) • Complete the “Conformity” chart. • Begin to draft your essay response to “Writing About Conformity.” • Take a stand on the issue of conformity. • Give three reasons for your opinion. • Explain each and back them up with examples. • Conclude by agreeing or disagreeing with Emerson’s stand on conformity. • Essay due tomorrow - handwritten.

8. Vocabulary word • tenet • noun • “aprinciple, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true, especially one held in common by members of an organization, movement, religion or profession.” (from merriamwebsteronline) • Trust is an important tenet of friendship.

9. FOR TOMORROW – • Homework: Re-read the excerpt from “Nature” and answer questions 1-8 in detail. • Use a quote from the essay AND explain in your own words what the quote means.

10. Homework: • Write 10 original analogies, each using a different word taken from “Self Reliance” or “Nature” by Emerson. • Example: education:

11. Transcendentalism

12. Please open your notebooks to the Class and Reading Notes section and prepare to take film notes. • Tomorrow: • PERIODS 2, 5 and 6 – Independent Reading (bring your new books).

13. Part 1: WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT THOREAU Part 2: WHAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT OURSELVES (humanity, human existence and life) FROM HIS LIFE AND WORK Film: In Search of ThoreauTake TWO PART NOTES

14. Lockjaw (The disease from which John Thoreau died) • A serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds. The jaws become firmly locked together. Untreated, it is fatal in about a week. • Lockjaw is caused by germs which live in the soil. These bacteria enter the body through a puncture wound or a cut (e.g., stepping on a nail or shaving) • Also referred to as tetanus, it's easily prevented with a TETANUS SHOT, which most people get when they are very young. • DPT shot - diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus • The shot’s protection wears off, so a tetanus booster is recommended every 10 years.

15. Journal #10 • If you had no obligations, restrictions, or expectations from other people, how would you choose to live your life?

16. PERIOD 3 - You will need: • your Walden excerpts handout • your notebook (open to the literary concepts section) • a highlighter and a pen or pencil. • Homework due MONDAY: JOURNALS 6-10. • HOMEWORK DUE TUESDAY: Bring in a photo of yourself doing something meaningful to you.

17. Please turn your journal in to the box in the front of the room. • You will need: • your Walden excerpts handout • a highlighter and a pen or pencil • Homework due TOMORROW: Remember to bring in the photo of yourself doing something meaningful to you.

18. 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Write reflective compositions: • a. Explore the significance of personal experiences, events, conditions, or concerns by using rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, description, exposition, persuasion). • b. Draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that illustrate the writer’s important beliefs or generalizations about life. • c. Maintain a balance in describing individual incidents and relate those incidents to more general and abstract ideas.

19. Literary Concept • ALLUSION: a passing reference back to something from history, literature, mythology, religion, or art that the writer assumes the reader will recognize. • The allusion only works if the reader understands the meaning of the allusion.

20. Please take out: • your Walden excerpts handout • the Walden vocabulary from yesterday • a highlighter and a pen or pencil • the photo of yourself due today • Write your name on the back. • NOTE: Vocabulary quiz on the 16 words from Walden on FRIDAY. • Spell, define, identify part of speech, use in an original sentence • Part of speech, definition and usage in the sentence need to match.

21. bulk (noun) sojourner (noun) egotism (noun) encumbrance (noun) to shirk (verb) torpid (adj) celestial (adj) resignation (noun) swath (noun) clout (noun) to founder (verb) incessant (adj) to imbibe (verb) misanthrope (noun) etiquette (noun) obsequious (adj) Vocabulary from Walden

22. Ants turned into men From Greek mythology: “Aeacus (a son of Zeus and the daughter of a river god) lived alone on an island—all the people had been killed by a plague—and he asked his father, Zeus, to repopulate his island kingdom. Zeus turned the ants of the island into men, so Aeacus could become a king. These men were called ‘Myrmidons’ after the Greek word for "ants."

23. Pygmies fighting cranes From Greek mythology (www.wikipedia.com): • “The Pygmies were a tribe of diminutive humans in Greek mythology. Their name in Greek was Pygmaioi, from pygmê, the length of the forearm. • According to the Iliad, they were involved in a constant war with the cranes, which migrated in winter to their homeland on the southern shores of the earth-encircling river Oceanus. • In art the scene was popular with little Pygmies armed with spears and slings, riding on the backs of goats, battling the flying cranes.”

24. Prairie Dog Town

25. Reflective Composition - Photo Aguilar – Lane – Ziglio - Jacobson Thompson – Back – Glawe Allen – Kelley – Rolow - Vakay Whelan – Herbold – Kellman Biener – Ram – Rumble Wagner – Kite – Garfield DeCoste – Hoa – Merassa Parucha – Hersman – Martoccia Gafney – Riedi – Herzberger - Hall

26. Philosophy of the Transcendentalists • Truth is perceived through instinct and intuition. • Individuals should attempt to achieve spiritual awareness through artistic expression.

27. Philosophy of the Transcendentalists • Each individual should listen to the voice of the spirit within him/her. • Each person should concentrate on improving and uplifting his/her individual life.

28. Philosophy of the Transcendentalists • The actions of one individual can transform other people’s lives and change a society. • All political and social change depends on the beliefs and actions of individuals. • “Man in the mirror” concept

29. from “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson • “I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer-- If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”

30. Philosophy of the Transcendentalists • Belief in a “Universal Being” (Over-Soul) of which every living thing is a part. • Everything and everyone are interconnected. • Belief that wildness/nature is the basis of society/civilization.

31. Appeal of Transcendentalism Today: Individuals can still find a sense of place in the world and a higher purpose to their lives.

32. The question for modern America is the same as the question the Transcendentalists asked themselves and others: Are we happy with American culture as we see it today? If not, what can we as individuals do right now to make it better?

33. Journal #10 • How do you feel about American Culture as you see it today? • How can individuals make a difference in today’s world?

34. 1. Truth is found through personal experience. • 2. Reliance on intuition and conscience is more meaningful than reliance on law and reason. • 3. Focuses on idealism--what should/could be. • 4. Nature, including human nature, is divine.

35. Journal #23 • Are you happy with American Culture as you see it today? • If so, why? • If not, how can you as an individual make it better?

36. Journal #24 • What smells and/or sounds evoke memories or emotions in you? • What, where, or who do they remind you of and what meanings do they hold for you?

37. From Walden • “…if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours…”

38. Journal #25 • Write your own LIFE GOALS LIST. • 50 goals • “50 things to do before I die”