Starter 1.21: Take data survey real quick! Please and thank you:)
Announcements and TO-DO:
- First Lit Circle Meeting now TUESDAY! Let's look at what this entails: Into the Wild Literature Circle 2021
- A Note on the Philosophy Journal: My expectation was that you would be keeping your journals all in one doc, whether a physical journal or ONE Google Doc, to be shared with me once. I keep these docs in a folder and read them from time to time. I realize that Google Classroom makes them feel like all separate assignments, and that is the nature of the platform. I am going to continue to post them how I have been so the proper due dates show up in your To-Do lists. If you have been doing them separately, please compile them into one Google Doc. Share it with me by email. And each time you complete the assignment, just "Mark as Done." I am returning all the disjointed ones to you so that you can do so.
- February 8th! WOO-HOO! Are there questions about the shift back to hybrid?
- HONORS: Your essay assignment is now posted in the Google Classroom. Please check it out when you have time. We will meet about it next week.
- Please make sure your lecture notes on existentialism concepts are complete. We will be applying these to our interpretation of various texts, so make sure you understand!
- OPTIONAL Q&A/discussion after class about existentialism, Sartre, Sisyphus and/or anything else you want to work out or philosophize about!
- TODAY: Journal #6
- Carl Sagan and Maya Angelou: Interpretation and Intertextuality
- See Google Classroom for details.
Definitions
Interpretation:
- the action of explaining the meaning of something. (source: Oxford Languages)
- the act of explaining, reframing, or otherwise showing your own understanding of something. (source: vocabulary.com)
Intertextuality:
- the relationship between texts, especially literary ones. (source: Oxford languages)
- "Intertextuality refers to those interrelationships among texts that shape a text’s meaning. The recognisable echoes of other texts in a text intensify the experience of the text by adding layers of meaning." (source: English Textual Concepts)
- Read first paragraph of Wikipedia's explanation.
TASKS FOR TODAY
- Watch Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
- Read Maya Angelou's "A Brave and Startling Truth"
- Complete Journal. Interpret and make Intertextual Connections!
- Optional Q&A on Existentialism
- READ Into the Wild! Keep the prewrite in mind!