Tuesday, October 29, 2013

October 29

1. Read "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page 267-268)
In your journal, write down 5 significant quotes. Then 
Choose one of your quotes and write 1/2 page (no more) explaining what Emerson is saying.  

Continue Walden.
Writing: Choose one of your quotes and write 1/2 page (no more) explaining what Thoreau is saying.  You will need to repeat this assignment three more times (a total of 4) and write 1 page on one quote. You will hand these in with your quotes

Share quotes. Continue copying 25 quotes.
Read to page 64 by Wednesday.
Quote of the day: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone" (or any other quote dealing with the idea of "less is more")
Check out this fascinating comparison of house sizes around the world: Houses
Here's a link to The Little Prince, which shows that we tend to judge people based on what they wear: Little Prince, pages 10, 11
Tomorrow we will look at our carbon footprint.
This week is the perfect time to study the dark Romantics (yeah, weird term, but that's it)
Dark Romantics
    Hawthorne
        Young Goodman Brown
    Poe
    Bauedelaire (French)

Transcendentalists
   Emerson
   Thoreau
British Romantics
    William Wordsworth
         "The Tables Turned"
         Ode: Intimations of Immortality

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