FINISH SENTENCE PATTERNS FROM THURSDAY, NOV. 6TH

Monday, Nov. 10: Please see Ppt “Mon Nov 6 Finishing up last Thursdays Sentence Patterns and MUGS” PPt on the JM website

Nov. 10-14Week 2

NEW UNIT: LITERARY MOVEMENT: TRANSCENDENTALISM–

We took notes through the slide entitled “The Transcendentalism Club”

Transcendentalism

America’s Emerging Literary Tradition- Take SHORT notes! ** Transcendentalists change focus from Puritan literature to “American” literature --

their new forms and styles of fiction and poetry ** focus on man’s relationship with

nature and self-awareness

The Emerging American Identity in Literature : Mid-1800s

FYI:

Transcendentalist ideas find followers in America, a new country which prides itself

on being individualistic.

Defined: Take notes 1800s American literary movement founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau is the second key supporter – friend of Emerson– both lived in Concord, MA, and both wrote poems and essays

Let’s get in tune with “ nature.”

Transcendentalism’s Key beliefs:

• Intellectual movement founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Truth lies outside the reach of the senses and is known only through the spirit/intuition.

• Optimistic belief in human potential• Deep interest in nature and man’s

relationship to it • Through the “Over-soul,” we are all one.

Spirituality – FYI:

Spirituality came from one’s understanding of

self and nature, not from organized religious

doctrines.

Tuesday, Nov. 11th

The Transcendental Club

Announcements:

ACT announcement

Flyer

“Irregular” testing room changes for Thursday

• Overdue books!

• New seating chart coming soon….

Transcendentalists in Literature

Key figures Ralph Waldo Emerson – founder of TranscendentalismHenry David Thoreau – friend and co-supporter

Other emerging American Transcendentalist authors:Poet Emily Dickenson [ 1800+ poems!]Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” Washington Irving [ Sleepy Hollow author] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Think of ONE WORD to sum up this picture:

Emerson“We will walk on our own

feet; we will work with our own hands; we will

speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because

each believes himself inspired by the Divine

Soul which also inspires all men.”

Bonus today for volunteer readers:

+3 Bonus points towards 2nd quarter

I have 21 reading opportunities today– please sign up ONCE….then, you sign up a second time openings

are available

Ralph Waldo Emerson: #1

Transcendentalist

1. Read aloud the bio on p. 362

2. Read aloud p. 364: Excerpt from his book Nature.

3. Read aloud p. 366: Excerpt from his essay Self-Reliance

Nature is portrayed as a beneficent living

force that can, if studied and

understood through careful and intentional

reflection, offer enduring lessons

about what it means to be human

Emerson stresses that you should NOT conform blindly to the ideas and behaviors of society or

peers. Rather, he urges his readers to both

THINK and ACT independently after you have considered all of your options, choosing the path best for you. “Rely upon yourself.”

Emerson’s Poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson: #1

Transcendentalist

1. Read “The Snowstorm,” P. 368

2. Read “Concord Hymn,” P. 369

Ralph Waldo Emerson– For the Final:

• Stressed an appreciation for the wonders of nature, individuality, self-reliance and independence

•Founder of the American Transcendental movement

• Works: Nature (outlines the main Transcendental principles) and Self- Reliance

Wednesday, Nov. 12th

NEW UNIT: LITERARY MOVEMENT: TRANSCENDENTALISM

Wednesday, Nov. 12

Henry David Thoreau

• “I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was [raking] in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn,” Henry David Thoreau

US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

Henry David Thoreau: #2 Transcendentalist

• Thoreau advocates the deliberate and public refusal to obey any law which you feel violates your personal principles. • Believes our gov’t

often impedes us• It is your duty to help

improve your gov’t

1. Read aloud the bio on p. 372

2. Walden, pp. 374-377

3. Read aloud pp. 380-381: Excerpt from Civil Disobedience

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYIhulK8S0

What to remember about Henry David Thoreau for the final:

• Lived a simplistic, transcendental lifestyle– wrote Walden after living there for 2 yrs, 2months

• Outspoken abolitionist / friend of Emerson– both lived in Concord, MA

• One of the earliest conservationists

• Practiced/wrote Civil Disobedience

To sum up, Emerson and Thoreau would say….

• It is okay to break rules/laws if the rules go against your beliefs or principles.

• The individual person is more important than the community.• If a person makes a decision, he/she should stick with it. In

other words, do not be a “flip-flopper.• The best way to get in touch with one’s spiritual self is to

immerse oneself in nature.• Material wealth and the pursuit of possessions consume

many people’s lives, making their lives less meaningful and less fulfilling.

• Each person has a responsibility to live up to his/her potential.

However, they would ALSO say….

• …that although it is your right and moral imperative to seek your own path, IT MAY NOT come at the cost of another person’s rights, happiness or safety

• …your “rights” end the moment you harm yourself, another or nature

Other Transcendentalists of the Time

What to know about Emily Dickinson

• Reclusive poet• Known as “the lady

in white”• Topics of nature

and death• Used unusual poetic

devices for her time• +1800 poems!

“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul.

And sings the tuneWithout the words,

and never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson

US poet (1830 - 1886)

Dickenson

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev15wAJkzwM

Read aloud her poetry, p.397

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Read aloud bio: p.248• “The Midnight Ride of

Paul Revere” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dKJ75F3tj8• “A Psalm of Life,” pp.

250-251

“The Good Gray Poet”: Walt Whitman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nla-JDEp4jw

• “After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”

Walt Whitman: Most influential American Poet– “The Bard of Democracy”

• Believed in equality, democracy, and spiritual unity of all mankind

• Showed this through his poetry

Considered to be the most influential American poet of all time

• Most famous for writing Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyUTDJ72q9k

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL8wT6Pm9g

20 MINUTE QUIZ – START IMMEDIATELY! GO TO THE JMHS WEBSITE:

1. Academics> English> Kim Lehman> American Lit>2. Open up the Powerpoint “ Nov Week 2….” ppt3. Locate this slide – slide #424. Take the quiz – turn in your work at hour’s end

Sentence Construction Quiz• Take out a blank sheet of paper OR TYPE –your choice.

• This is OPEN NOTE -- you may NOT SHARE NOTES. Your quiz and anyone you share with will get a zero if you do. Be academically honest, young Rocket!

• Name, date [ 11/13/14] and hour in the upper left-hand corner

• There are 6 slides. You will have limited time on each slide with a 20 min. class – work quickly.

• Two points per question – must be COMPLETELY CORRECT for +2

Partial points for answers with errors

Question #1:

Pattern: I ; I

Write a perfect I;I pattern sentence about your

favorite season.

Question #2

List all of the individual conjunctions, including

the two “pairs” that work together:

Question #3

Pattern: I, c I

Write a perfect I, c I pattern sentence about

your closest or best friend.

Question #4

Pattern: D, I

Write a perfect D, I pattern sentence about what you did after school one day

this week.

Question #5

Pattern: I D

Write a perfect I D pattern sentence about what you plan to do this weekend.

Question #6

Pattern: Listing sentence

Write a perfect LISTING pattern sentence about

what you plan to do over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Friday, Nov. 14th

Directions for today’s assignment, to be finished at home—due Tuesday :

1. Go out to the JMHS websiteAcademics> English> Kim Lehman> American Lit Grade 10

2. Open up this Ppt: “Transcendentalism Assignment”

3. Follow the directions. Today is our only day in the lab – the rest is up to you outside of class and is due next TUESDAY.