Collection 3: The Individual and Society
T"o be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essential Question: How do different writers explore the connection between nature and the individual?
Collection Objective: SWBAT make a claim about the way writers interpret the individual's relationship with the natural world and support the claim with evidence from Collection 3 texts in order to participate in a debate/philosophical chairs.
Performance Task: SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of the collection by using textual evidence to support their opinions on a philosophical chair assessment.
Introduction to Collection 3:
SWBAT: provide their opinions of the roles that individuals have in nature.
1. Nature Coffee House
2. Collection Quote Analysis
3. The Individual and Society pg. 175 in the textbook: Focus Notes
Essential Question: How do different writers explore the connection between nature and the individual?
Collection Objective: SWBAT make a claim about the way writers interpret the individual's relationship with the natural world and support the claim with evidence from Collection 3 texts in order to participate in a debate/philosophical chairs.
Performance Task: SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of the collection by using textual evidence to support their opinions on a philosophical chair assessment.
Introduction to Collection 3:
SWBAT: provide their opinions of the roles that individuals have in nature.
1. Nature Coffee House
2. Collection Quote Analysis
3. The Individual and Society pg. 175 in the textbook: Focus Notes
Objective 1:
SWBAT: write a poem analysis that focuses on the use of literary elements that contribute to the poem's theme by completing a poetry analysis hand-outs.
I. Pre-Reading:
a. Walt Whitman Biography (hand-out)
b. Vocabulary Preview
II. Close Reading:
a. "I Celebrate Myself" by Walt Whitman
b. Read and Annotate
c. "Song of Myself 33" by Walt Whitman
d. Read and Annotate
III. Post Reading:
a. SWBAT: write a poem analysis that focuses on the use of literary elements that contribute to the poem's theme by completing a poetry analysis hand-out.
SWBAT: write a poem analysis that focuses on the use of literary elements that contribute to the poem's theme by completing a poetry analysis hand-outs.
I. Pre-Reading:
a. Walt Whitman Biography (hand-out)
b. Vocabulary Preview
II. Close Reading:
a. "I Celebrate Myself" by Walt Whitman
b. Read and Annotate
c. "Song of Myself 33" by Walt Whitman
d. Read and Annotate
III. Post Reading:
a. SWBAT: write a poem analysis that focuses on the use of literary elements that contribute to the poem's theme by completing a poetry analysis hand-out.
Objective 2:
SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of Thoreau's "Walden" by summarizing his experience and what he learned as a result of his Walden experiment.
I. Pre-Reading:
a. Henry David Thoreau Biography (Hand-out)
b. Vocabulary Preview
II. Close Reading:
a. from "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau pg 207
b. Read and Annotate
III. Post Reading:
a. SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of Thoreau's "Walden" by summarizing his experience and what he learned as a result of his Walden experiment.
SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of Thoreau's "Walden" by summarizing his experience and what he learned as a result of his Walden experiment.
I. Pre-Reading:
a. Henry David Thoreau Biography (Hand-out)
b. Vocabulary Preview
II. Close Reading:
a. from "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau pg 207
b. Read and Annotate
III. Post Reading:
a. SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of Thoreau's "Walden" by summarizing his experience and what he learned as a result of his Walden experiment.
Objective 3:
SWBAT: create a motivational poster with the use of one of Emerson's quotes from "Nature" or "Self-Reliance" or a poster to promote the preservation of nature by using one of Thoreau's quotes from "Walden."
I. Pre-Reading:
a. Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography (Hand-out)
b. Vocabulary Preview
II. Close Reading:
a. from "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hand-out)
b. Read and Annotate
c. from "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hand-out)
III. Post Reading:
a. SWBAT: create a motivational poster with the use of one of Emerson's quotes from "Nature" or "Self-Reliance" or a poster to promote the preservation of nature by using one of Thoreau's quotes from "Walden."
SWBAT: create a motivational poster with the use of one of Emerson's quotes from "Nature" or "Self-Reliance" or a poster to promote the preservation of nature by using one of Thoreau's quotes from "Walden."
I. Pre-Reading:
a. Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography (Hand-out)
b. Vocabulary Preview
II. Close Reading:
a. from "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hand-out)
b. Read and Annotate
c. from "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hand-out)
III. Post Reading:
a. SWBAT: create a motivational poster with the use of one of Emerson's quotes from "Nature" or "Self-Reliance" or a poster to promote the preservation of nature by using one of Thoreau's quotes from "Walden."
Performance Task:
SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of the collection by using complete sentences and textual evidence to support their opinions on a philosophical chairs assessment.
Objective 4:
SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of the collection by using complete sentences and textual evidence to support their opinions on a philosophical chairs assessment.
I. Pre-writing:
a. Philosophical Graphic organizer
II. Speaking:
a. Speaking Rubric
III. Post-Writing
a. Writing Reflection
SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of the collection by using complete sentences and textual evidence to support their opinions on a philosophical chairs assessment.
Objective 4:
SWBAT: demonstrate knowledge of the collection by using complete sentences and textual evidence to support their opinions on a philosophical chairs assessment.
I. Pre-writing:
a. Philosophical Graphic organizer
II. Speaking:
a. Speaking Rubric
III. Post-Writing
a. Writing Reflection