Monday - and Reading Schedule for the rest of the Semester

Today we will read "Civil Disobedience" and answer questions 1-4 and 8 on page 397. 

If you left your book at school here is a link: https://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/student/ebook_gr11/osp/data/u2_walden_civil_se.pdf

                     

           

Reading Schedule:

11/30 - Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (page 379 and 390)

12/1 - Thoreau - From Walden (page 380)

12/2 - Emerson - "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" (page 369) 

12/3 - Margaret Fuller - "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (page 402)

12/7 - 12/8 - Poe - "Fall of the House of Usher" (page 410)

12/9 - Fireside Poets - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes (page 342)

12/10 and 12/11 - Introduction to Huckleberry Finn and chapters 1-5
 

12/15 - Review

12/16 or 12/17 FINAL  

Review for Test on Romanticism

1 – Be able to discuss with examples how Emerson (Nature and Self-Reliance)  and Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience fit the ideas of Transcendentalism.  You will need to be able to pick out  a theme for each essay and use specific examples.

2 – Discuss the meaning of the “A Psalm of Life”, “The Tide Falls”, “The Chambered Nautilus” and “Old Ironsides”.  Be able to analysis rhyme scheme, stanza structure, and metaphor in each poem.  Also apply the question: What gives life purpose to the poems.

3 – List the elements of American Gothic literature and give examples of these elements in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and The Scarlet Letter.

4 – Be able to discuss the following questions as connected to the literature of the Romantic Period:

“Is the price of progress ever too high?”

“Is it patriotic to protest one’s government?”

“Does everyone have a dark side?”

“Where do people look for the truth?”
 

Objectives (smaller chunks of overall goal) and suggested time periods

At the end of this Unit the Students will be able to

1)  List and explain 3-5 symbols from the novel The Scarlet Letter

2)  Discuss the basic structure(s) of The Scarlett Letter

3)  Given the main ideas of various pieces of Romantic Literature

4)  List the key aspects of Romanticism

5)  List the key aspects of transcendentalism

6)  Discuss who the Fireside poets were and what they believed in

7)  Keep a dialectical journal while reading The Scarlet Letter

8)  Evaluate the purpose and argument of public advocacy

9)  Determine two or more themes in a text

10)          Discuss the importance of rhyme scheme and stanza structure and how they create meaning

11)          Compare Emerson and Thoreau

 Major Themes addressed:

The idea of individualism and the purpose of nature.

The meaning of sin and forgiveness.

Sometimes to be patriotic means to protest one’s government.

The meaning of truth and the idea that everyone has a dark side.

Is the price of progress ever too high?