Week of December 3rd

Monday, Dec. 3rd (T)
· Due: Excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson and study questions.
· Class: Discussion of “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”; Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.”

Tuesday, Dec. 4th (W)
· Due: Study for vocabulary quiz. Start reading the Thoreau packet.
· Class: Vocabulary quiz on Unit #4. Emerson, aphorisms, and trends in Transcendentalism.

Wednesday, Dec. 5th (H)
· Due: Excerpt from “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau and study questions.
· Class: Discussion of the reading. Introduce Transcendentalist scrapbook; practice with cartoons.

Thursday, Dec. 6th (F)
· Due: Excerpt from “Resistance to Civil Government” by Henry David Thoreau and study questions.
· Class: Discussion of the reading; Emerson to Thoreau; more Transcendentalist trends.

Friday, Dec. 7th (S)
· Due: Draft of two artifacts (minimum) for your scrapbook.
· Class: Share and peer edit; “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

Monday, Dec. 10th (U)
· Class drops today.

Tuesday, Dec. 11th (M)
· Due: Finished Transcendentalist scrapbook.
· Class: Introduction to The Scarlet Letter.