3AP Lang & Comp

11/27 Transcendentalism PPT Self-Reliance Vocab Read & annotate Self-Reliance Excerpt All materials generated this week may be used in final exam	11/28 Carefully read the introduction – they’re excellent. Complete Self-Reliance Close-Reading doc on Canvas Prd 1, 3 - NC035 Prd 8 – Lib A	11/29 Late Start Day Discussion of Self-Reliance Close-Reading questions Exam Prep – HW: Read 1) Self-Reliance and Certainty and Doubt & 2)Self-Reliance and the Individual Essay prompts Tomorrow, half of you will be assigned one, half the other	11/30 Exam/Timed Writing Practice Self-Reliance essay …Begin your essay…finish at home if necessary…bring printed copies tomorrow Prd 1 – DC Prd 3- 035 Prd 8 – Lib A	12/1 Discuss Self-Reliance essay responses HW: Review Civil Disobedience vocab and begin reading & annotating Civil Disobedience; finish Civil Disobedience by end of class on Monday 12/4
12/4 Read Civil Disobedience	12/5 Civil Disobedience Close-Reading Prd 1,3 – 035 Prd 8 – Lib Floor	12/6 School Improvement Day 11:30 dismissal	12/7 Civil Disobedience Essay Prd 1, 3 – 035 Prd 8 – Lib Floor	12/8 Discuss Civil Disobedience essays HW: Begin reading and annotating Frederick Douglass 4th of July and review vocab; finish reading Douglass 4th of July in-class on 12/11
12/11 AP Rhetoric Text Finish reading and annotating	12/12 AP Rhetoric Lesson Prds 1, 3 & 8 - Library Floor	12/13 AP Rhetoric Lesson Late Start Day Prds 1, 3 & 8 - Library Floor	12/14 AP Rhet Essay Prds 1, 3 – 035 Prd 8 - DC	12/15 Discuss Rhetoric  essays
12/18 Exam Prep	12/19 Exam Prep	12/20 Final Exams Prds 3 – DC east	12/21 Final Exams Prd 1, 8 – Lib Flr	12/22 Final Exams End of 2nd quarter and 1st semester

Emphasis - It's an argument, so it has to be engaging and their has to be depth of thought, not just quote dropping and hit and run thinking. 

Depth of thinking and voice

Ethos, logos, pathos

Ask lots of questions of the writer whose paper you are reviewing

Use questions in your own essay, too. They can set up points.

On Canvas, check out Wesley Words for Writing for transition words and phrases that might be helpful.

HW: Draft # 2 due Monday, November 20.
Monday we are in the DC.

Finish the book...Chapter 18 and the Epilogue...Chapter 18 in paritcular has some really interesting stuff in the last chapter

Read the "draft" writing options ( - I forgot to add a due date but it will be due November 21 on Canvas and turnitin.com (I will grade it on Canvas)

Into The Wild in-class reading (33 minute class)

HW: Read Into The Wild ch 16-17 (157-186) for Monday

NORTH CAMPUS

1st 7:45 - 8:18 33
2nd   8:24 - 8:57 33

3rd 9:03 - 9:36 33

4A 9:42 - 10:07 
4B  10:12 - 10:37 

5A 10:43 - 11:08  
5B   11:13- 11:38 

6th  Class              11:42- 12:17 33
        Seating                12:17 - 12:30 
        Assembley          12:30 - 1:25                                  Return to Class    1:25- 1:47 


7th 1:53: - 2:26 33

8th 2:32 - 3:05 33

Into The Wild: Read Chapters 10-12 (98-126) for tomorrow.

Stay prepared for a reading quiz.

Culminating writing assignment will be handed out tomorrow or Friday.

Into The Wild chapters 6-7

Ten minutes of take-aways...

Double-entry journal like the one we did for chapters 4-5

Find a total of 3 passages (1.5 per chapter...haha) which you feel capture or reveal the three most important take-aways (for you) from Chapters 6-7.

Exchange papers...

Respond to two of their take-aways with a "Yes, and..." or Yes, but..." comment in the margins of their entry. The comment should acknowledge their point (that's the "yes" part) but also build on it or raises a counter-point or counter-interpretation to their point (that's the "and" or "but" part). Then sign your name and hand it back.

HW: 
Read and annotate Into The Wild chapters 8-9

Read and annotate chapter 6 & 7 of Into The Wild...We're overdue for a quiz soon, so make sure you are current with the reading.  

Chapter 4 & 5 essentials

Essentials
Chapter 4 & 5 double-entry journal
If you are/were out on Friday, please complete, in your notebook, a shortened version of the assignment below; therefore, for each chapter, choose one (1) quote from the external sources in the prologue of each chapter and what you feel are the two (2) most essential passages from the body of each chapter. 

Students in class, working with a partner, please complete the following:

- For chapters 4 & 5, pick five passages which you feel are essential to conveying who McCandless is and what motivated or shaped him, from family experiences to literature. Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper, and write the passages and page #'s on the left hand side of the paper; write your explanation for why you feel that quote is essential to understanding McCandless or understanding Krakauer's purposes in the chapter.

- The first of the five passages should come from  one of the outside sources Krakauer uses to introduce each chapter. Those quotes from other sources - sometimes chosen by McCandless sometimes not, seem to set up ideas that will be explored in the chapter. 

Write down a portion of that external source and then explain why you think Krakuaer included that specific qutote.  How does it relate to the chapter? The book as a whole? McCandless?  

- For any of the passage, you might consider what it suggests or reveals about the essential questions that Krakauer is concerned with in this book; or, consider how it nudges the reader  towards considering an idea or experience that helps to explain, McCandless's  behavior. 


- Take the opportunity to understand...don't stop at "He is so opinionated..." or "She is so cold.." or "He is so dramatic"..."She is such a know-it-all..." You can start there, it's natural, but then start to ask why this person is that way. Imagine, perhaps, that you are a counselor or a friend who is truly trying to understand a complex person.


“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? ...Why does it (government) not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“I believe,—“That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays


“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

In-class discussion ch 1-3

HW: 

nto the Wild- Jon Krakauer

Assignment #2- Chapters 4-5 (25-46)

Vocabulary

On this or a separate sheet of paper, write down the word, part of speech, and definition.

oxymoronic (39)

denuded (41)

Discussion Questions

As you read, answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper. Be thoughtful and thorough in your answers.  You don’t need complete sentences, but complete answers.  Each response is worth 2 points.

1.      How is Krakauer able to corroborate (strengthen or support with other evidence) the events in the Detrital Wash?

2.      Refer back to the first map in the book for the events of the summer of 1990.  Then refer to the map on page 24.

a.      What happened in October 1990?

b.      November 1990?

c.      December 1990?

d.      What stymies McCandless’s passage to the Gulf of California and what “miracle” occurs on December 9, 1990?

e.      What happens on January 1, 1991?

3.      Who cares for McCandless in Slabs?  What are they like?  What sort of care do they offer Chris?  What is Slabs?

4.      Krakauer spins McCandless as being infatuated with Jack London.  Who is Jack London and what does Krakauer say about McCandless’s infatuation with him?

A taste of Transcendetalism...

Read the two poems by  Emerson and Ol' Uncle Walt.

Group # 1: What images do you notice?
What themes, central ideas do they suggest were important to Emerson and Whitman, respectively? 
Do you see any overlap with Romantic ideals? 
Given what you know about Chris McCandless so far, do you see any overlap between Chris's ideas and those of Whitman and Emerson? 

Is solitude or commmunity more important for happiness?

Are they mutually exclusive? 

How does one find a balance between quiet and solitude and conversation and community? 

Do you feel you have a balance between the two in your life?

Group #2...Discuss your responses to the questions you worked on last night.

Looking forward to tomorrow's work (in-class reading and questions):

Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer

Assignment #2- Chapters 4-5 (25-46)

Vocabulary

On a separate sheet of paper, write down the word, part of speech, and definition.

oxymoronic (39)

denuded (41)

Discussion Questions

As you read, answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper. Be thoughtful and thorough in your answers.  You don’t need complete sentences, but complete answers.  Each response is worth 2 points.

1.      How is Krakauer able to corroborate (strengthen or support with other evidence) the events in the Detrital Wash?

2.      Refer back to the first map in the book for the events of the summer of 1990.  Then refer to the map on page 24.

a.      What happened in October 1990?

b.      November 1990?

c.      December 1990?

d.      What stymies McCandless’s passage to the Gulf of California and what “miracle” occurs on December 9, 1990?

e.      What happens on January 1, 1991?

3.      Who cares for McCandless in Slabs?  What are they like?  What sort of care do they offer Chris?  What is Slabs?

4.      Krakauer spins McCandless as being infatuated with Jack London.  Who is Jack London and what does Krakauer say about McCandless’s infatuation with him?