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Assignments for February 2018

 

Date Class Work Homework Due Today

Week 1 (20)

Mon

01/29

Minimum Day 

Vocabulary 1b Deno/Conno

Read the philosophical metaphor "I Become a Transparent Eyeball" (textbook pg. 225)

  •  Reader's Response: From "I Become a Transparent Eyeball" (textbook pg. 225).  What is Transcendental about the work.  Pick one line and align to One of the four basic premises of Transcendentalism.  Remember to include all elements of the Reader's Response (see past efforts for guidance).  Due Wednesday 1/31

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

  • Don't forget your iPad tomorrow.  We will be taking another Illuminate practice test for CAASP testing.

Chapters 37-43

Tues

01/30

Ms. G out for full day meeting

Illuminate practice test for CAASP

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 
Reader's Response: From "I Become a Transparent Eyeball"

Weds

01/31

Review Pillars of Rhetoric (Analysis Packet, page 8)

Transcendentalism in the concrete world:

READ: Self-Reliance (textbook, pg. 226)

"A Nonconformist"

"Traveling"

 "Reliance on Property"

"Man Thinking"

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 
 

Thurs

02/01

Transcendentalism in the concrete world:

READ: Self-Reliance (textbook, pg. 226)

"A Nonconformist"

"Traveling"

 "Reliance on Property"

"Man Thinking"

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

  • Reader's Response: "Man Thinking" (textbook page 227).  Consider the central metaphor of the work.  Select one rhetorical element that supports this metaphor.  Remember to include all elements of the Reader's Response (see past efforts for guidance).  Due Monday 2/05.   Let's reschedule for next week.

  • Study for Vocabulary 1b (See Quizlet)

 

Fri

02/02

Vocabulary 1b

Transcendentalism in the concrete world:

READ: Self-Reliance (textbook, pg. 226)

"A Nonconformist"

"Traveling"

 "Reliance on Property"

"Man Thinking"

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
 

Week 2 (21)

Mon

02/05

READ: Thoreau's Walden selections:

 "Why I Went Into the Woods"

"Why I Left the Woods" (textbook pg. 232) 

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF).

  • Reader's Response: "Man Thinking" (textbook page 227).  Consider the central metaphor of the work.  Select one rhetorical element that supports this metaphor.  Remember to include all elements of the Reader's Response (see past efforts for guidance).  Due Thursday 2/08

 

Tues

02/06

Journal 1b

Is there a cause for which you would break the law?  What is that cause, and why would you risk your freedom for it?  Cite examples from history in which a citizen broke the law for a "higher truth."

 

READ: "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau, (textbook pg. 240)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF).

  • We will meet in the library to practice the California Assessment for Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP).  I will leave a note on the door to remind you.  Get some sleep and eat a great breakfast.

 
 

Weds

02/07

CAASPP Testing Block 1 - Mixed Bag

 

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 
 

Thurs

02/08

Introduce Anti-Transcendentalism

READ: "What Redburn Saw In Lancelott's-Hey" by Herman Melville  (textbook p.274)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 

Reader's Response: "Man Thinking"

Fri

02/09

"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (textbook p. 253)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 
 

Week 3 (22)

Mon

02/12

President's Day

No Students

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 

Tues

02/13

Vocabulary 2b Deno/Conno

Discuss Anti-Trans. tenets in Hawthorne's work.

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 

Wed

02/04

What is Gothic/Arabesque/Grotesque?

Intro to American Gothic -- discussion of arabesque and grotesque literature

 

READ: "Anabel Lee" (textbook pg. 212)

"The Raven"

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

  • We will meet in the library to practice the California Assessment for Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP).  I will leave a note on the door to remind you.  Get some sleep and eat a great breakfast.

 

Thurs

02/15

CAASPP Testing Block 2 - Information Text

  • Study for Vocabulary 2b Quiz (See Quizlet)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 

Fri

02/16

Vocab 2b Quiz

READ: "Hop Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe (textbook pg. 206)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 

Week 4 (23)

Mon

02/19

President's Day

No Students

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

 

Tues

02/20

 

Finish "What Redburn Saw in Lancelott's-Hey" by Herman Melville  (textbook p.274)

 

Begin "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (textbook p. 253)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
  • Reader's Response: "What Redburn Saw in Lancelott's-Hey" (textbook page 274).  What is Anti-Transcendental about the work.  Select one tenet and discuss. Thursday 2/22.
 

Weds

02/21

Ms. Gerber out, work on assignments

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)We will meet in the library to practice the California Assessment for Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP).  I will leave a note on the door to remind you.  Get some sleep and eat a great breakfast.
  • Reader's Response: "What Redburn Saw in Lancelott's-Hey" (textbook page 274).  What is Anti-Transcendental about the work.  Select one tenet and discuss. Thursday 2/22.
 

Thurs

02/22

CAASPP Testing Block 3 - Writing Revision

 

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
 

Fri

02/23

 

Ms. Gerber out, work on assignments

 

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
Reader's Response: "What Redburn Saw in Lancelott's-Hey" (textbook page 274).

Week 5 (24)

Mon

02/26

Minimum Day 

Vocab 3b Deno/Conno

Continue "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (textbook p. 253)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
 

Tues

02/27

Continue "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (textbook p. 253)
  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
  • Reader's Response: From "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (textbook p. 253).  What is the parable presented in the work?
 

Weds

02/28

What is Gothic/Arabesque/Grotesque?

Intro to American Gothic -- discussion of arabesque and grotesque literature

READ: "Anabel Lee" (textbook pg. 212)
  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
Reader's Response: From "The Minister's Black Veil"

Thurs

03/01

READ: "Hop Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe (textbook pg. 206)

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
  • Study for Vocabulary 3b Quiz (See Quizlet)
 

Fri

03/02

Vocab 3b Quiz

"The Cask of Amontillado"

  • Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)
 

 

 

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