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3-01
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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 |
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3-02
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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" |
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3-03
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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
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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
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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
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3-22 |
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| 3-07 |
PM Early
Dismissal: In-Service; Work on Gothic
Presentation |
3-23 |
Holiday |
| 3-08 |
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3-24 |
School
Closed: Holiday |
| 3-09 |
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3-25 |
Naturalism:
Continue with Into the Wild; Do parents and
location influence the type of person you become? |
| 3-10 |
Gothic
Jigsaw Presentations
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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 |
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| 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 |
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3-31
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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 |
| 3-16 |
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