Today we are going to discuss the first 13 pages of Walden and what you have posted for your dialectical journals. First we are going to look at a video on "line of reasoning" (Charles) and then look at Emerson.
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/triumphnationalism/cman/text8/selfreliance.pdf
HW: 13-30
What do you know about Henry David Thoreau?
1st - Themes:
Self-Reliance
Living Simply
Social Criticism
Technology
Materialism
Life, Consciousness and Existence
Liberation from traditional economic systems
Solitude
Self-Improvement
Practical and Formal Education
Nature as Eternal Guide and Teacher
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
"To be awake is to be alive."
Live your life according to your convictions; have the courage to be different, regardless of what others say.
Living "simply" frees you of the worry about material possessions and rewards you with more time for what really counts.
Chapter 1 - ECONOMY
DEFINITION (from dictionary.com)
- thrifty management; frugality in expenditure or consumption of money materials
- the management of the resources of a community
- the prosperity or earnings of a place
Questions:
What is real wealth?
What are the necessities of life?
Do luxuries corrupt? Humans work their entire lives for luxuries.
What does it mean to be philanthropic?
Discuss Thoreau's house?
Quotes: "Cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is
required to be exchanged for it, immediately, or in the long run."
Example - house that costs $800 and which takes ten to fifteen years to pay off
"But lo! men have become the tools of their tools."
"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things
which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important
item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which
he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no
charge is made."
Transportation - "the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot." The fare of a train is almost a day's wages.
"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to
enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
ESSAY QUESTION:
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| of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to | |
| Howth Castle and Environs. | |
| Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- | |
| core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy | |
| isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor | |
| had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse | |
| to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper | |
| all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to | |
| tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a | |
| kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in | |
| vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a | |
| peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory | |
| end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. | |
| The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- | |
| ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- | |
| nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later | |
| on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the | |
| offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, | |
| erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends | |
| an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: | |
| and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park | |
| where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- | |
| linsfirst loved livvy. DIALECTICAL JOURNALS/ANALYSIS ESSAYS Effective students have a habit of taking notes as they read. This note-taking can several forms: annotation, post it notes, character lists, idea clusters, and many others. One of the most effective strategies is called a dialectical journal. The word “dialectical” has numerous meanings, but the one most pertinent is the “art of critical examination into the truth of an opinion” or reworded “The art or practice of arriving at the truth by using conversation involving question and answer.” As you read, you are forming an opinion about what you are reading (or at least you are SUPPOSED to be forming an opinion). That opinion, however, needs to be based on the text – not just a feeling. Therefore, all of your opinions need to be based on the text. The procedure is as follows: 1. Either in your textbook or in a notebook and draw a line down the center of each page of the notebook. NOTE: I expect you to publish these journal entries nightly and number them as you go. 2. As you read, pay close attention to the text. 3. Whenever you encounter something of interest (this could be anything from an interesting turn of phrase to a character note), write down the word/phrase in the LEFT HAND COLUMN making sure that you NOTE THE PAGE NUMBER. If the phrase is especially long just write the first few words, use an ellipsis, then write the last few words. 4. In the RIGHT HAND COLUMN, WRITE YOUR OBSEVRATIONS ABOUT THE TEXT you noted in the left-hand column. This is where you need to interact in detail with the text. Make sure that your observations are THOROUGH, INSIGHTFUL, and FOCUSED CLEARLY ON THE TEXT. Note, most of you will record these on google docs and list the quotation followed by your interpretation. Your analysis essay will be on Walden - make sure you read closely and publish your dialectical journals daily. Examples of dialectical journals: Moby-Dick: Ch. 107"If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anoalously did its duty." Most of Melville's novel has seemed dedicated to redefining religion and religious practices. Many allusions have been made to Jesus and many characters display characteristics that seem representative of Jesus- Pequod launching on his birthday, Moby-Dick's seeming rebirth and immortality, Ishmael's lack of parental information, Queequeg's 'miracles' and heroic saviors, and Ahab's sense of higher power. This chapter, in a sense, define's what Ishmael percieve's Jesus (the greatest carpenter) to be. A humble man who was 'no duplicate', and simply followed out his orders and purpose willingly and succesfully. Hey, perhaps every character in Moby-Dick corresponds to a character from the bible? Melville did call this a 'wicked text'...did he rewrite- maybe even mock- the holy book?
This relates to our current world: with the way we are using up our natural resources prices now are lowering (such as gas in the lower 48 reach below 2 dollars) however, the next generation will have to deal with outrageous prices and depleted oil fields. Also, global warming is another issue that the previous generation gave us and we will pass on to the next generation.
Thoreau is again referring to the uselessness of extravagance. Do the expensive "baubles" or decorations come at the expense of the many poor? He says there is no beauty in things man made that don't fulfill the most basic needs. Thoreau questions whether anything in a home is beautiful if the foundation of the house is not made from honest labor and toil. |
Period 1: AP LANGUAGE
Thursday and Friday: Students need to read Joan Didion “On Self-Respect” on page 159 in One Hundred Great Essays and Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” in The Best American Essays of the Century and write a precis.
They should also finish their essay on community service and/or Assata.
You have about 15 minutes to work on your essays today. If done work on MC questions.
We will read Susan Sontag's "Camp" and work on the precis. We will be moving on to WALDEN next week.
HW: MC questions.
Today and Monday you will be writing the synthesis essay on community service. You'll need your textbooks.
We will discuss "The White Album" in class and then move on to writing the the synthesis essay on community service in your textbook.
HW: Write precis for "The White Album"
We are going to finish "The White Album" and look over rubrics for the synthesis question.
HW: Write precis for "The White Album"
We will go over your precise and then read "The White Album" by Joan Didion.
HW: AP Classroom MC questions.
Read "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan and write a precise.
Name of author, [optional: a phrase describing author], genre, title of the work, date in parentheses (additional publishing information in parentheses or note); a rhetorically accurate verb (such as “assert,” “argue,” “suggest,” “imply,” “claim,” etc.); and a that clause containing the major assertion (thesis statement) of the work. First - AP Classroom.
An explanation of how the author develops and/or supports the thesis, usually in chronological order.
A statement of the author’s apparent purpose followed by an “in order to” phrase.
A description of the intended audience (and/or the relationship the author establishes
with the audience) and a description of his or her tone.
Today we are going to finish chapter 3 of Language of Composition, but first we need to discuss your homework, and then look at logical fallacies.
HW for Tuesday. Read "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan and write a precise.
Make sure you take notes on the following:
The Ad Hominem
The Hasty Generalization
The False Dichotomy
Begging the Question
The Slippery Slope
Relativist Fallacy
The Non Sequitur
Complex Question
Circular Reasoning
The Red Herring
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Today you will continue to write your first essay (read major grade). Below is the prompt. Think of this as the open question on the AP test but with a specific book. Please turn this in by Wednesday.
Noam Chomsky once said, “The America that black people have always known is not an attractive one.”
According to Dr. James Herron, “In the United States our identities are shaped by Race. People think of themselves 1st as white or black or native before they think of themselves as ‘American’”. This is different than other parts of the world. Using Assata’s autobiography make a case for or against whether the U.S. is a racist society and suggest a solution.
You must take a stance on the issue and create an argument using examples or evidence from Assata’s book.
RUBRIC:
Thesis - 1 point
Evidence - 1 to 4 points
Sophistication - 1 point
Today we will discuss Assata and get back into The Language of Composition chapter 2. First I'll give you some quick notes on punctuation.
Please note that you have an Assata assignment coming up and I believe some of your are behind in the reading (like really behind).
Today we will discuss Assata and get back into The Language of Composition chapter 2.
Noam Chomsky once said, “The America that black people have always known is not an attractive one.”
According to Dr. James Herron, “In the United States our identities are shaped by Race. People think of themselves 1st as white or black or native before they think of themselves as ‘American’”. This is different than other parts of the world. Using Assata’s autobiography make a case for or against whether the U.S. is a racist society and suggest a solution.
You must take a stance on the issue and create an argument using examples or evidence from Assata’s book.
RUBRIC:
Thesis - 1 point
Evidence - 1 to 4 points
Sophistication - 1 point
Today we are going to talk about Assata, write a precise on "Why We Crave Horror Movies", and look at chapter 2 of Language of Composition.
Name of author, [optional: a phrase describing author], genre, title of the work, date in parentheses (additional publishing information in parentheses or note); a rhetorically accurate verb (such as “assert,” “argue,” “suggest,” “imply,” “claim,” etc.); and a that clause containing the major assertion (thesis statement) of the work. First - AP Classroom.
An explanation of how the author develops and/or supports the thesis, usually in chronological order.
A statement of the author’s apparent purpose followed by an “in order to” phrase.
A description of the intended audience (and/or the relationship the author establishes
with the audience) and a description of his or her tone.
HW: Assata
Reading schedule:
9/3 - 14-15
9/4 - 16-19
9/5 - FINISH and dance in Haiti.
Today you will take a practice MC test. First we will finish the essay from yesterday. HW for break read to page 364, the chapter entitled ...
