Thursday/Friday

Emerson's idea of self-reliance is seen in a commercial that Steve Jobs produced for Apple Computers.
The  Crazy Ones

Google Doc: Here's to the Crazy Ones
ASSIGNMENT 1:
When typing your 1/2 page explanation of the quote, be sure to:

• Quote the quote (obviously) 
• Make a claim concerning what it means
• Explain why it means this (elaborate)
• Explain further, perhaps referring to another quote in Walden
• Conclude
• (DO THE SAME FOR A SECOND 1/2 PAGE RESPONSE)

When typting your 1 full page explanation of the quote and response, but sure to:

• Quote the quote (obviously) 
• Make a claim concerning what it means
• Explain why it means this (elaborate)
• Explain further, perhaps referring to another quote in Walden
• Conclude
• Share with the reader your personal response to this quote 
• State that you agree or disagree, and why
• Explain why you agree or disagree
• You might want to give an example from your life or the lives of others that shows why you agree or disagree
• Elaborate
• Conclude
• * YOU MAY COMBINE YOUR RESPONSE WITH YOUR EXPLANATION*

For the written portion of your Walden Poster assignment, type 1/2 - 1 page SINGLE SPACED in the same manner as you do for assignment 1 above

• Quote the quote (obviously) 
• Make a claim concerning what it means
• Explain why it means this (elaborate)
• Explain further, perhaps referring to another quote in Walden
• Conclude

AND explain how your photo illustrates the idea of the quote. 

To do this, consider doing the following:

• Describe what is depicted in the photo
• Explain how these things represent the idea of the quote (2-3 sentences)
• Discuss the artistic decisions you made and the ways that those decisions emphasize the idea in the quote
• Lighting--light/dark; color, maybe saturated colors (including black and white or color)
• Line, texture, shape, focal length of lens (close-up, wide-angle), value (light/dark), texture
• Cropping--placement of figures in the picture; rule of thirds (or not!)

ALL OF THESE WALDEN POSTER REQUIREMENTS ARE FOUND HERE: POSTER

PRACTICE WITH PHOTOS IN THE CLASSROOM

PRACTICE WITH ROMANTIC WORKS OF ART: Cloister Graveyard, Raft of  the Medusa

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Read Huck Finn

Write 1/2 explaining what Thoreau is saying in one of these two examples:
Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs"--Emerson

Roger's penknife

Where do you take issue with Thoreau? You don't have to agree with him, you know!


"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it" (19);
 "Beware all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes" (14). 

Huckleberry Finn Vocabulary
1-10 for Thur/Friday
CRUCIBLE TEST Next Thursday/Friday
Thur. Dec. 8/Friday Dec. 9 you will  have 45 to read Huckleberry Finn OR to take the optional Crucible test. Since many of you didn't do well on the Scarlet Letter test (a gross understatement in many cases!), I am giving you the opportunity to take this test in an attempt to get more points. The two scores will be averaged.
You might want to CHECK OUT THE BOOK TODAY (your choice, of course)
WALDEN POSTER DUE THUR/FRI 

2. Walden Journal entries--December 5th
Compile 25 significant quotes
Write 1/2+ page response to a quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1/2+ page response to a second quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1+ page response to one quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
You may not use one of these quotes for your  Walden Poster.
Walden Poster due Thur December 1st/Friday 2nd
3.
Changing Education Paradigms, by Sir Kenneth Robinson
"Our educational system is based on the assembly line factory model of the Industrial Revolution." 

Write 1/2 explaining what Thoreau is saying in one of these two examples:
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it" (19);
 "Beware all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes" (14). 

Huckleberry Finn Vocabulary
1-10 for Thur/Friday
CRUCIBLE TEST Next Thursday/Friday
Thur. Dec. 8/Friday Dec. 9 you will  have 45 to read Huckleberry Finn OR to take the optional Crucible test. Since many of you didn't do well on the Scarlet Letter test (a gross understatement in many cases!), I am giving you the opportunity to take this test in an attempt to get more points. The two scores will be averaged.
You might want to CHECK OUT THE BOOK TODAY (your choice, of course)
WALDEN POSTER DUE THUR/FRI

2. Walden Journal entries--December 5th
Compile 25 significant quotes
Write 1/2+ page response to a quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1/2+ page response to a second quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1+ page response to one quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
You may not use one of these quotes for your  Walden Poster.
Walden Poster due Thur December 1st/Friday 2nd
3.
Changing Education Paradigms, by Sir Kenneth Robinson
"Our educational system is based on the assembly line factory model of the Industrial Revolution." 

Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs"--Emersone.

THANKSGIVING BASKET
Friday is the last day! I have one gift card for each of our two families but would like a second ($25 doesn't buy much!)
1. Finish Walden Poster brainstorming. Share.
2. Walden Journal entries--December 5th
Compile 25 significant quotes
Write 1/2+ page response to a quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1/2+ page response to a second quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1+ page response to one quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
You may not use one of these quotes for your  Walden Poster.
Walden Poster due Thur December 1st/Friday 2nd
3. "How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? (33)"
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it" (19); "Beware all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes" (14). Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs"--Emerson
Changing Education Paradigms, by Sir Kenneth Robinson
"Our educational system is based on the assembly line factory model of the Industrial Revolution." 

Transcentalist Principles and Characteristics
Transcendentalism: Origins, Characteristics, and Impact

Walden Poster Assignment due Thursday after Thanksgiving

THANKSGIVING BASKET
We will be putting together a basket this season for a struggling family.
Please consider what it would be like to not have enough money to put together a decent meal, let alone a Thanksgiving feast (I usually spend about $200 on Thanksgiving, for example--not cheap).

Homework:
Read pages 31-53 in the Dover Thrift edition, if  you check it out. (Up to the point where Thoreau lists the expenses for building his house.) That's the end of "Economy"
I would recommend reading the online annotated text, however.
Walden online text
Homework Monday: Read pages 54-64
Remember, your assignment is to collect 25 significant quotes from your reading along with page numbers. If you're using the online text, simply copy quotes and paste them into a document that you can print. Rather than using page numbers, you will cite your quotes by section and paragraph number. (e.g. Economy, 1C, 16). Usually by the end of page 53 most students have collected approximately 15 quotes.

THANKSGIVING BASKET
We will be putting together a basket this season for a struggling family.
Please consider what it would be like to not have enough money to put together a decent meal, let alone a Thanksgiving feast (I usually spend about $200 on Thanksgiving, for example--not cheap).

Homework:
Read pages 31-53 in the Dover Thrift edition, if  you check it out. (Up to the point where Thoreau lists the expenses for building his house.) That's the end of "Economy"
I would recommend reading the online annotated text, however.
Walden online text
Homework Monday: Read pages 54-64
Remember, your assignment is to collect 25 significant quotes from your reading along with page numbers. If you're using the online text, simply copy quotes and paste them into a document that you can print. Rather than using page numbers, you will cite your quotes by section and paragraph number. (e.g. Economy, 1C, 16). Usually by the end of page 53 most students have collected approximately 15 quotes.

Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth

Walden online text
WALDEN
Homework:
Read pages 1-31 in the Dover Thrift edition, if  you check it out. (Up to the point where Thoreau lists the expenses for building his house.)
I would recommend reading the online annotated text, however.
Walden online text
It will be easier for most of you. Additionally, you can highlight quotes and passages and copy them into your list of quotes, which you can print out for me later, if you would rather do that than handwrite them.
As you read, write down significant quotes (or copy and paste). You have already written approximately five (5) quotes from class. Don't worry too much if you get bogged down and don't understand certain passages. Just continue on and you will find something that jumps out to you after a few paragraphs.

Tue/Wed Nov. 1 and 2

1. SCARLET LETTER TEST
2. Read Fall of the House of Usher
3. Review for quiz next time Walden Vocabulary--quiz next time over first 9 words
4. Watch Dead Poets Society. Take notes on characteristics of Transcendentalism/Romanticism in the movie (the value of the individual, heart over mind, the power of Nature to inspire, a higher way of knowing, etc.)
Poems referred to in Dead Poets Society
Robin Williams quotes from movie Dead Poets Society
Script for the entire movie (yeah, it's about 50 pages)
The Real Life Mr. Keating, as told by the real life Mr. Pitts (the kid with the rather unfortunate name)
Dead Poets Society tidbits and trivia
The Telltale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe (cartoon)
The Telltale Heart,  film version
The Telltale Heart, 1941 film version 2