GREEN FRIDAY/ PURPLE MONDAY/Transcendentalism 3.4

GREEN FRIDAY/ PURPLE MONDAY/Transcendentalism 3.4

Do Now: Have you ever read comics?  Comic books? Graphic novels?  If so, which ones?  If not, what is your opinion of them?

Objectives:

• examine examples of transcendental thought in popular culture. In particular, comic strips and songs.
• analyze Emerson and Thoreau’s influence on popular culture

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Divide into 5 groups.  Each group will get a Calvin and Hobbes book.
3. Read the strips.  Examine the text and the drawings with the goal of identifying the literary elements of transcendentalism
4. If needed, review your text annotations and/or thought charts
5. Identify two comics that that have strong literary connections to the ideas of Emerson and Thoreau. (Bring them to me and I will xerox the strips)
6. Glue/tape the strips to a blank piece of paper.  Write one “golden quote” from Emerson or Thoreau that mirrors the strip.  Write one sentence explaining the connection.
7. Summarizer
   
   

HW: Try to find examples of Transcendentalism in any media (e.g., sitcoms, television dramas, commercials).

GREEN THURSDAY/ PURPLE FRIDAY/Transcendentalism 3.3

GREEN THURSDAY/ PURPLE FRIDAY/Transcendentalism 3.1

Do now: What is your favorite kind of music?

Objectives:

• to experience the transcendental beliefs in nature

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. Song!
3. Omelas reading quiz (15 minutes)
4. Omelas voting
5. Discuss: voting results
6. DPS

HW: finish filling in the thought chart

Copy of Walden excerpts rotated

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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 TUESDAY/ PURPLE THURSDAY Transcendentalism 3.2

GREEN TUESDAY/ PURPLE THURSDAY Transcendentalism 3.2

Do now: List all the "electronics" you have used since waking up this morning (this includes things that are plugged in, or things that use electricity in your house i.e., the overhead lights!)

Objectives:

• identify elements of transcendentalism such as the connection between people and nature, an individual's ability to think freely, and the importance of spiritual self-reliance to the individual found in the works of Emerson and Thoreau.

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. In Groups: Fill out the Thought Chart

3. Class discussion: key points of Walden

4. DPS

5. Summarizer

HW: Read/annotate “Walking Away from Omelas”

Homework/Due dates

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PURPLE MONDAY/ Transcendentalism 3.1

Do know: Whose writing style do you prefer-- Emerson or Thoreau? Explain.

Objectives:

identify elements of transcendentalism such as the connection between people and nature, an individual's ability to think freely, and the importance of spiritual self-reliance to the individual found in the works of Emerson and Thoreau.

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Song! Instructions

3. Groups: Identify one tone word for “O Captain”

4. Groups: Draft one thesis statement (how= nautical conceit, why= use tone word, so what= larger message)

5. Activity: Identify key quotations from the excerpt that reveal Thoreau’s thinking about the relationship between humans and nature. Explain the relationship between the quotation chosen and the basic characteristics of transcendentalism.

4. DPS

5. Summarizer

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