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Exploring Favorite Outdoor Spots with Sensory Detail

Dive deep into your favorite outside location by using vivid sensory details. Experience the sights, sounds, and scents to create a rich description. Partner up for annotation feedback. Engage in small group discussions on Emerson and Thoreau's essays. Analyze their arguments, thesis statements, and our responsibilities to nature. Collaboratively craft a bullet-point précis pre-write for one of the essays. Note upcoming homework deadlines on environmental texts and Unit 4 rubric progress tracking. 8

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Exploring Favorite Outdoor Spots with Sensory Detail

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  1. AP English Language and Composition Thursday, December 10th, 2015 Sit anywhere 

  2. Journal • Describe your favorite outside location. Use sensory details and be thorough.

  3. Due • Thoreau “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” annotations • Partner score • Record on text and on Unit 4 rubric • Initial next to score on rubric **Review progress on Unit 4 rubric!!

  4. Small Group Discussion • Have a conversation with the people around you • Talking points: BOTH Emerson AND Thoreau • Which essay did you like better? Why? • Discuss the concrete and abstract nouns found in both essays. Then discuss each author’s thesis statement. • How do the authors construct their arguments? What did you find effective, and what do you not understand? • What is our responsibility to nature?*** • Collaboratively – make a bullet-point précis pre-write for one of the essays. Discuss your ideas as you work!

  5. Discuss the similarities and differences

  6. Homework between now and break!!! • Frontier précis (3 pieces) due Fri. 12/11/15 • Carson: From Silent Spring annotations due Mon. 12/14/15 • Oates “Against Nature” annotations due Tues. 12/15/15 • Unit 4 Rubric due Tues. 12/15/15 • Nature précis (3 pieces) due Thurs. 12/17/15

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