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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

American Literature
12 December 2017
  
Objective: (1) To be exposed to the characteristics of the Transcendentalism Literary Period. (2) To locate and analyze Transcendentalist characteristics within Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”(STANDARD RL.9, RI.9)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by (1) selecting “bumper sticker” worthy lines from the text and (2) selecting their favorite Emerson aphorism. 

Agenda:
1.    Notebook: Current Event – 15 min
2.    Intro to Transcendentalism – Prezi Notes – 15 min
3.    Read Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” with EXIT SLIP – 40 min
4.    Discuss Divergent Ch. 25-26 – 20 min
a.   Chapter 25 (Mckenna/Braden)
b.   Chapter 26 (Alaura/Gracie)

Assessment: EXIT SLIP: Side #1 – Which line from “Self-Reliance” would make a good bumper sticker?  Side #2 – Copy down your favorite aphorism from p. 257. 

Homework: Divergent Chapters 27-28 p. 339-377

AP English Literature and Composition
12 December 2017

Student Learning Objective: (1) To identify the many tools that Dickens uses to create suspense. (2) To discuss the M.V.P.s (Most Valuable Passages) from Chapters 2-7. (3) P.S. Ahhh!  Great chapters!  (STANDARD RL.4)

Success Criteria: Students will show mastery by making comparisons between the two texts in both content and style. 
  
Agenda:
1.            Discuss Book the Third, Chapters 8-10
a.       Chapter 8 – Dylan
b.      Chapter 9 – Kay
c.       Chapter 10 - Cecelia
2.            Introduce Book the Third, Chapters 11-15

Assessment: Class Discussion Questions, Book the Third, Chapters 8-10
1.      III, 8: What great coincidence is revealed to us, Miss Pross, and Jerry Cruncher in the wine-shop when they are out on their usual afternoon shopping expedition?
2.      III, 8: What damaging evidence does Carton hold against Barsad?
3.      III, 9: How does Jerry use his insights into society’s double standards to defend himself from Lorry’s anger?
4.      III, 9: What details concerning Sydney Carton’s thoughts and activities build suspense and/or foreshadow upcoming events?
5.      III, 9: How does Carton’s touching conversation with Lorry give us the impression that Carton has had a premonition of death?
6.      III, 10: Here Dickens employs a first person, major character, insert narrative flashback.  What is the relevance of this flashback?
7.      III, 10: Since Charles Darnay had nothing to do with this double crime, why is Madame Defarge bent on his destruction?
8.      III, 10: Even though his letter ends with a repeat of the curse on the Evermonde family, how does it also explain Charles’ very different nature?


Homework: A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Third Chapters 11-15p. 338-382 (44 pages); Rough Draft of Personal Narrative pages 5-7

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