Monday, March 1st

TODAY'S AGENDA:

Prepare for tomorrow's interviews with Westminster Village. If you are interviewing someone else, please try to do so before Thursday so you are on point with the debrief and reflection.

1. See your groups and Google Meet links in the schedule doc in Google Classroom.
2. Let's go over the guidelines for the interviews.
3. Tomorrow: Be on time! BE EARLY! Go straight to your Meet link. Don't come to class first!
4. If you are not participating, please fill out the survey in the Google Classroom with your interview plans. THIS WILL COUNT AS TOMORROW'S ATTENDANCE.
5. Reflection due Thursday
6. Is everyone clear on logistics?
7. TEST! Go in really quickly with your group and make sure the link works!

Finish up your interpretive claim and analysis paragraphs for Harold and Maude.

• Conference with me today if you need help on this assignment. Ask for an extension if you need a few extra days.

HONORS: Peer Critique on Personal Narrative (please do this before next Monday!)

Read Part 1 (through 108) in A Tale for the Time Being by Thursday night. We will have a plot coaching check in on Friday in class.

Thursday/Friday February 25th/26th

Harold and Maude Film Analysis

If you are learning at home, and you are unable to find this film for free or prefer not to pay to rent it, you are welcome to do this same assignment with another movie that you deem to have overtly philosophical layers that you can analyze. (Harold and Maude is available on Amazon Prime. There are MANY movies that you could interpret/analyze using our philosophical lenses and inquiry questions, so no worries if you don't want to pay to rent it!)

Youth Seeking Wisdom interviews

1. Please fill out BIO by tomorrow
2. Take the survey if you haven't
3. If you are interviewing a family member, your homework this weekend is to set that interview up for some time before next Thursday.

Tuesday, February 23rd

Starter 2.23: Please share out any thoughts, questions, observations, quotes, wonderings about transcendentalism, Thoreau, Whitman, etc....

JOURNAL #12: Respond to Nick Jans' exchange with your fellow Osprey

Intertextuality! Analyze my former student Keiran's ('17) exchange with Alaska author Nick Jans (who is quoted by Krakauer on page 71-72).  

1. Does this perspective change which corner you may have been in last week for "Chris McCandless was on a transcendental odyssey" or where you might fall on this question?

AND

2. What wisdom might we glean from this communication about interpretation or intertextuality? OR What do you think about "Reader Response" theory that says that audience of a text plays an active role in determining its meaning?

AND/OR

OPTIONAL JOURNAL 12b: Read "Going Alone" by Nick Jans and add some thoughts in your journal.

WORK TIME

GET STUFF DONE!!!

PLEASE FILL OUT YESTERDAY'S SURVEY if you haven't already!!!!

OR 

OPTIONAL SESSION ON WALT WHITMAN with Jessica

1. SHARE out thoughts/experiences/criticisms
2. Which way does your beard point tonight?

• A Supermarket in California
• Defending Walt Whitman
• Ode to Walt Whitman 
• Optional Journal Entry: WRITE A (FREE) VERSE IN RESPONSE TO WHITMAN

Monday, February 22nd

Starter 2.22: Please fill out the survey regarding our "Youth Seeking Wisdom" project.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/TO-DO

• Transcendentalism Notes/Response to Walden
• Your Life on Earth JOURNAL #11
• Read and Reflect on Whitman (OPTIONAL)
• Catch up on any missing or late assignments
• HONORS: Personal Narrative Draft due for Peer Critique next Monday, March 1st
• Please communicate with me if you are writing about something super personal and would like to choose your critiquers.
• HONORS: Read A Tale for the Time Being. Our "Book Club" seminar for this will occur on Monday, March 29th. See the Honors Semester 2 syllabus for suggested reading deadlines and other important details about the Book Club expectations. Part 1 due March 5th.

QUICK HONORS CHECK IN FOR Q and A about assignment expectations!

Friday, February 19th

 Starter: FOUR CORNERS

1. Chris McCandless was on a transcendental odyssey.
2. The feeling of transcendence can be explained by brain chemistry.
3. Happiness is only real when shared.

PREVIEW: YOUTH SEEKING WISDOM project

• Who might have folks to interview? Who wants to be part of the group interviews with Westminster?
• What questions are not on the list that should be?

TO-DO/WORK TIME

• Transcendentalism Notes/Response to Walden
• Spend some time in the pages of Leaves of Grass (see OPTIONAL EXTENSION)
• Some of you: Self-Assessment
• Catch up late work
• Conference with Jessica
• HONORS: Personal Narrative! Conference with me?
• Draft for Peer Critique due March 1st
• HONORS: Read  A Tale for the Time Being 
• Part 1 (through Page 108 due February 23rd for plot clarification meeting)
• Monday's Journal #11 assignment

Thursday, February 18th

 Starter 2.18:  Please take Janae's survey.

American Transcendentalism

Readings/TO-DO

• Excerpts from Walden (Anyone want a hard copy?)
• You can work on the notes and response question if you like, but we will also have SOME time in class to do this tomorrow.
• OPTIONAL (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED): Check out a copy of Leaves of Grass and spend some time swimming around in its verse. I would sit with "Song of Myself" if I were you, but ultimately, you are beings of free will and should follow your own impulse.

Tuesday, February 16th

Starter 2.16: Please take this survey regarding your feelings about PROM. "Answer with pictures, sticky notes, memes, whatever [you] feel like."

If you received an email from me last night, please heed the call. Working on updating grades....

Into the Wild Wrap....

***RESOURCES AND TIPS for writing your synthesis paragraphs. Even if you have already begun or finished this work, please go back and do some revisions on your paragraphs based on this advice.

• REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS DUE @ MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!

OFFICE HOURS TODAY DURING CLASS! I am here to help you with your writing!

If you are finished with this work....

• Read ahead! Due Friday: Excerpts from Walden by Henry David Thoreau to prepare for our next philosophy
• HONORS: 
• Now is a great time to start working on your Personal Narrative Essay.
• It is also time to start reading A Tale for the Time Being for our book club experience.