Wednesday, February 12th

Into the Wild film

Intertextual Claim Response Assignment
(See page 2 of this document for possible prompts and example claims)

Here is the example I spoke of, where the student analyzed the meaning of the belt.  Please don't copy her, but feel free to make an unconventional claim such as this.  Notice the sophistication of the claim itself!

For your reference:  Mini-workshop on interpretive claims 

Soundtrack Resources

Lyrics from the soundtrack

See Genius as well:

Society

Guaranteed


Google Film Criticism on this movie? If you do this, CITE the source!

HOMEWORK? When you finish your paragraph, read “Yes, We Have no Nirvanas” by Kurt Vonnegut, located on pages 37-43 in your reader. This is homework if you don't get to it!

Tuesday, February 11th

Let's see how other artists add layers of meaning to Chris McCandless's story! 




Into the Wild Film Response (due at the end of class tomorrow)

Monday, February 10th

Welcome, Janae!

Please turn in your Into the Wild reflection/synthesis assignment by midnight tonight!

Thursday, February 6th

Final Lit Circle Meeting:  NEW GROUPS

Copy this Modified Protocol

When you finish with your group meeting, you can have time to work on the Reflection/Synthesis assignment.  On Page 2 on this doc.  

DUE AT MIDNIGHT ON MONDAY February 10!!!

Wednesday, February 5th

FOUR CORNERS

• Striving for material success gets in the way of a spiritual quest for truth.
• Chris McCandless was on a transcendental odyssey.

Read Osprey Keiran Eagen’s intertextual email exchange with Nick Jans
*Note: Nick Jans is the author in Chapter 8 (p.71-72) who criticized Chris and Krakauer’s coverage of him.


JOURNAL 2.5: CHRIS AS TRANSCENDENTALIST?
Reader Response: Do you agree with Keiran or with Nick Jans? Was Chris McCandless less competent than a boy scout? Or was he on a transcendental path that is worthy of our study?


GET READY FOR TOMORROW’s FINAL LIT CIRCLE!

Tuesday, February, 4th

Starter 2.4: Write a haiku that attempts to capture one "thought snapshot" of your personal relationship with nature and/or another philosophical perspective. 

Haiku mini-lesson:

5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables

Traditionally contains a kigo, a reference to the season it is set in (FEEL FREE TO BREAK THIS RULE!)

Maybe next lifetime

I could be a butterfly 

Who glides through this fog 

'Tis freezing outside

Too frigid for transcendence?

Nature Walk postponed:(

Transcendentalist Principles and Response to Walden

WORK TIME

• Transcendentalist Principles and Response to Walden
• Into the Wild: Prep for final lit circle Thursday
• HONORS: Cat's Cradle? Essay work? Let's circle up for a check-in!

Monday, February 3rd

Self-Assessment: Digital Comp Book and Class Participation

Who went forest bathing this weekend?

Discuss:

What are our takeaways from the forest bathing article and the lit circle questions? What are humans getting out of their time in nature?  How might our culture impact our personal relationships with nature? How does this play out with Chris?

Lesson:  Transcendentalism

Reading Assignment: Excerpts from Walden

JOURNAL 2.3 Thoughts on Transcendentalism:  How does transcendentalism speak to you personally?  Which pieces resonate and which do you reject? Why? Choose at least one quote from the Thoreau reading OR the Powerpoint lesson and react to it in the context of your response.