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so you can check what we did while you were gone... or asleep.
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Happy B day! Today, we wrote some poetry in the style of William Carlos Williams. Check out the video below. SSR Watch the video below and then begin reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" (p. 798 in the textbook) and fill out Character development chart (passed out in class). Both the chart and the story are below the writing prompt in the assignment. ASSIGNMENT: "The Yellow Wallpaper" Literary Technique Paragraph Put Thoreau's ideas on trial. If you missed, your assignment is to write a three paragraph essay outlining what you think the pros and cons outlined in your given argument of Thoreau's ideas are.
Worked on analyzing small sections of Thoreau's text. See Mr. Restad for your copy of a short piece to analyze. Finished Civil Disobedience Vocab and online response started on Friday.
Started discussing civil disobedience. On Google Classroom respond to the following prompt: “Do you believe it is ever right to deliberately break a law? When, why, and what are the limits?”
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Finished ACT Vocab 2 and the Google Classroom Self-Reliance assignment. Picture day. If you missed, retakes are October 24th. Organized our notes on "Self-Reliance" using this paragraph structure graphic organizer. SSR
Finished annotation and took notes on paragraphs in "Self Reliance", breaking each paragraph into whether it discusses
We're building to write a response to the following question on our Google Classroom assignment. In a paragraph that explains Emerson’s view on the importance of being self-reliant, and evaluate one of the reasons people aren’t self-reliant. Junior councilor orientation.
SRR Catch up on any missing assignment AND/OR redo any assignments Quizlet "Top ACT Vocab (A-C) Unit 2" Checked out this cool lyric annotation site: genius.com then learned about annotation, which is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXgr7_3Kw4
Then read and annotated and discussed this poem: The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveller hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Today we look at art from the American Romantic Period.
If you were gone, just focus on the fact that the Romantic writing we're going to read focuses on
Finished and turned in the "Way to Rainy Mountain" assignment on Google Classroom.
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