Monday, April 3, 2017

Emerson and Thoreau

Obj: I can recognize the strengths and weaknesses of my partner's essay. I can read a text closely and answer analysis questions.

1. Sharing essays
2. How can we tighten our language?

  • Edit paragraph
  • Confusing antecedents

3. What is Transcendentalism?
4. Discuss "big ideas" from Emerson's Nature
5. Read Thoreau and divide up 2nd reading Q's

 HW: Read Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne and complete 1st and 2nd reading questions
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