WHAT CAN NATURE TEACH US?
(P. 347) COLLECT JOURNALS FOR A TEST GRADE. Summarize the background of Whittier and Lowell. Discuss mood, imager, meter and rhyme. Read and paraphrase the poetry of Whittier and Lowell on pp. 348-355. Check comprehension by doing all questions on p. 356. Homework: Study for a test on poetry on Thursday. TUESDAY: ELECTION DAY WEDNESDAY: Review the fireside poets and poetry terms. THURSDAY: TEST ON FIRESIDE POETS FRIDAY: Discuss the background of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the intellectual movement of Transcendentalism. NOVEMBER 8-12 MONDAY: Do pp. 33-48 in the workbook. Discuss Emerson’s excerpts from Nature and Self-Reliance. TUESDAY: Discuss Thoreau and his mentor Emerson. Using the QtA literacy stategy worksheet, students will read orally an excerpt from Walden on pp. 372-379. WEDNESDAY: Discuss civil disobedience and the examples of modern civil disobedience. Homework: Read “Civil Disobedience” on pp. 382-389. THURSDAY: Review for test on Emerson and Thoreau on Friday. FRIDAY: TEST ON
