PURPLE TUESDAY/ Transcendentalism 3.2

PURPLE TUESDAY/ Transcendentalism 3.2

DO NOW: Share your TIB draft with your peer editing partner

Objective:

• effectively peer edit a peer’s paper
• identify areas of strength and areas for revision
• utilize suggestions to revise essay
• actively watch Dead Poets Society for transcendentalist beliefs

1. do now
2. Read peer’s essay
3. Complete the TIB peer edit checklist for peer’s essay
4. exchange/ discuss essays
5. begin to revise essay
6. Begin to watch DPS

HW: Read and annotate Walden chapters: “Higher Laws,” “Conclusion,” and “Civil Disobedience” for THURSDAY.

GREEN THURSDAY/ Transcendentalism 2.3

Green THURSDAY/ Transcendentalism 2.3

DO NOW: Share your TIB draft with your peer editing partner

Objective:

• effectively peer edit a peer’s paper
• identify areas of strength and areas for revision
• utilize suggestions to revise essay
• actively watch Dead Poets Society for transcendentalist beliefs

1. do now
2. Read peer’s essay
3. Complete the TIB peer edit checklist for peer’s essay
4. exchange/ discuss essays
5. begin to revise essay
6. Begin to watch DPS

HW: Read and annotate Walden Chapters: “Economy,” “Where I live,” and “Solitude” for FRIDAY.

THIS I BELIEVE DRAFT- STEP 1

GREEN: due Thursday, Sept. 17th

PURPLE: due Tuesday, Sept. 22

GREEN TUESDAY/ PURPLE THURSDAY

Transcendentalism 1.1

Do Now: how was writing the summer reading letter?  What is a strength?  What is a weakness? (socrative)  Hand in letter to front table

Objectives:

• get to know peers in class
• practice inference
• identify personal beliefs

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. With a partner, try to make sense of each six word memoir.

1. Moving again.  Goodbye strangers.  Hello strangers.
2. Leap!  Catch football.  Crunch.  Goodbye scholarship.
3. Mistaken verdict.  Life sentence.  I'm appealing.
4. Little brother.  Big game.  Last laugh. (Eli Manning)
5. Actually, I never had a mother.
6. Bleached blonde.  Everyone knew.  Never cared.
7. Waited a lifetime for that moment.  (Boo Radley)
8. Small hand in mine.  Hello suburbs!

3. Write your own six-word memoir, summing up your life so far.

4. Introduce the “This I Believe” assignment

5. Listen/read samples

6. Brainstorm ideas

7. Summarizer

HW: Read Ben Franklin Handout (In Google Drive Handouts- in "First Days" folder. Called "Ben Franklin's List of Good Qualities"