Grade 11 - March

3-01

  3-17 Regionalism: How does highlighting and focusing on the differences within regions of the United States help to bring a broken country back together?  Reading Apprenticeship: Dialects, Colloquialism, and Sectionalism: alanyzing how the changing shape of the a nation's political landscape shapes and changes the structure and feel of American Literature; Analyze how Twain utilizes regional dialect to highlight differences and create a sense of unity through humor

3-02

  3-18 Realism: Honestly Portraying American Life: How does focusing on the banal and seemingly boring aspects of life help to mend a broken nation?  Reading Apprenticeship: Analyze the realistic elements of fiction of bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flats"

3-03

Laptop Cart Roll Out: Review 2 District Usage Policies; Finish Gothic Influence on Film 3-19 Early Dismissal: 12:15; Period 1: Naturalism: Does Heredity and Social Environment Determine Your Character and Identity? Examine ideas / philosophies of Darwin applied to literature; Reading Apprenticeship: Analyze the effectiveness of literary devices in film that explore how heredity and social environment interact in the development of a person's identity; film as text: Into the Wild
3-04

Work on and Finish Gothic Presentations of Poe's Short Stories

3-20 School Closed: Holiday
3-05

What is a Good Person?  How Do You Become a Better Person?  Introduction to Transcendentalism: Growth, Food, and Art Activity; CD on Semester at Sea / Beauty in Global Nature

3-21 School Closed: Holiday
3-06

Emerson and Nature: Beauty and Self-Discovery; Using Nature to Become a Better Person by examining the truth, freedom, love, goodness, growth, and self-discovery mirrored in nature

3-22  
3-07 PM Early Dismissal: In-Service; Work on Gothic Presentation 3-23 Holiday
3-08   3-24 School Closed: Holiday
3-09

 

3-25 Naturalism: Continue with Into the Wild; Do parents and location influence the type of person you become?
3-10

Gothic Jigsaw Presentations

3-26 Naturalism: Conclude Into the Wild; Do parents and location influence the type of person you become?
3-11

Finish Gothic Presentations

3-27 On the Road and Modernism: What Makes Life Worth Living?  Examine the ideas and philosophies of the Beats' search for meaning in life while living in the moment, uncaring of others / future; Reading Apprenticeship: Understanding stream of consciousness and honesty
3-12

Introduction to Thoreau; Ghandi and King as pathways to transcending negativity; Resistance to Civil Government

3-28 On the Road and Modernism: What Makes Life Worth Living? Reading Apprenticeship: Talking to the Text for segments of On the Road by Kerouac
3-13 Dickinson: Transcending Pain Through Writing: In A Class of Her Own; Discuss Dickinson's ability to transcend loneliness and pain through self-reflective literature of poetry 3-29  
3-14 Introduction to Division, War, and Reconciliation: Walt Whitman and the Voices of War in Leaves of Grass; Characteristics of Nationalism and Creating an Authentic American Voice in Literature; How Does a Country Come Together After a War?; Reading Apprenticeship: Examine Whitman's ideas on reconciliation by analyzing songs: "Sleep through the Static" by Jack Johnson;  "Imagine" by John Lennon; "The General" by Dispatch--anti-war messages and how similarities of humanity rather than the differences are highlighted, ultimately celebrating humanity which will bring people together and stop war; clip from Across the Universe 3-30  
3-15  

3-31

On the Road and Modernism: What Makes Life Worth Living?  Discuss what it is like living in a world that you feel makes no sense; Evaluate how the author masks and deals with his pain; Examine the text's raw honesty in dealing with life; Answer the question what makes life worth living both for the author and students
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