Into the Wild Intertextual Analysis Essay
AFTERNOON CLASS: Covid testing down the hall!
WEDNESDAY WORKBLOCK: Finish film and develop your thesis statement.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Thursday, February 17th
Starter: Do you have Netflix?
JOURNAL #12: KEIRAN/NICK JANS EXCHANGE
1. Was Chris McCandless on a transcendental odyssey? Do you agree more with Keiran or Nick Jans?
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 the audience of a text plays an active role in determining its meaning?
OPTIONAL JOURNAL 12b: READ NICK JANS piece that he sent to Keiran, “Going Alone” here! Is he more “transcendentalist” than Chris? Add some thoughts of response to your journal entry.
LIT CIRCLE SELF-REFLECTION:
1. How well did you participate in the literature circle experience? Were you prepared each time? Did you participate fruitfully? How did the analytical process go for your group?
2) What did you get out of this experience? Discuss the importance of the discussion groups in helping to form your interpretations of this novel. Be specific.
PREVIEW OF INTERTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ESSAY
Monday, February 14, 2022
Monday, February 14th and Tuesday February 15th
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Starter: Mary Oliver, “Of Love”
I have been in love more times than one,
thank the Lord. Sometimes it was lasting
whether active or not. Sometimes
it was all but ephemeral, maybe only
an afternoon, but not less real for that.
They stay in my mind, these beautiful people,
or anyway beautiful people to me, of which
there are so many. You, and you, and you,
whom I had the fortune to meet, or maybe
missed. Love, love, love, it was the
core of my life, from which, of course, comes
the word for the heart. And, oh, have I mentioned
that some of them were men and some were women
and some—now carry my revelation with you—
were trees. Or places. Or music flying above
the names of their makers. Or clouds, or the sun
which was the first, and the best, the most
loyal for certain, who looked so faithfully into
my eyes, every morning. So I imagine
such love of the world—its fervency, its shining, its
innocence and hunger to give of itself—I imagine
this is how it began.
-Mary Oliver, from Red Bird (Beacon Press, 2008).
Could LOVE be the meaning of life?
FOUR CORNERS
Time in nature can lead to spiritual awakening.
In order to live our best lives, we should live simply with fewer material possessions.
TRANSCENDENTALISM
LESSON: American Transcendentalism
READ: Excerpts from Walden
OPTIONAL: Leaves of Grass
NOTES/RESPONSE: Transcendentalism and Walden
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Thursday, February 11th
Starter: Ashley survey
Gratitude as a source of happiness and meaning?
TED Talk: Want to be happy? Be grateful.
Gratefulness brainstorm on post-its:
Make a good size list of things you are grateful for. Try to go beyond the obvious things. EVERY BRILLIANT THING!!!
TELL THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU APPRECIATE THEM!!!!
Write some postcards or letters to express gratitude to other humans that add value to your life. Get specific and lift their spirits! In doing so, the idea is that your own spirit gets lifted as well!
Journal #10:
Respond to the TED talk. What are you taking away from these ideas? Do you buy the concept that gratefulness yields happiness and not the other way around? Is there a place for any of this in your own personal philosophy of Happiness and Meaning?
AND/OR
Reflect on your own relationship with gratitude. How does gratefulness impact your own life and your own happiness?
WORK TIME
Read Into the Wild (next lit circle February 17)
Read ahead on Transcendentalism” Excerpts from Walden (due Tuesday, February 15th)
Monday, February 7, 2022
Monday/Tuesday February 7th-8th
Harold and Maude Socratic Seminar
Is Harold and Maude an existentialist film?
What are the roots of Harold’s angst and alienation? How do his ideas about happiness and meaning evolve as a result of his relationship with Maude? How does his character change?
Has Maude achieved Eudaimonia at the end of her life (deathbed question)? Would Aristotle see her as having cultivated virtue and the Golden Mean? Or do you see her as more of an existentialist? Or something else?
What message is this movie trying to transmit? What might it be trying to teach us about Happiness and Meaning? How does it impact you personally?
Identify 2-3 impactful quotes from the film and explain their literary significance.
Generate 2-3 questions to bring to the Socratic seminar.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Friday, February 4th
DEBRIEF LIT CIRCLE, DISCUSS QUESTIONS
NEXT WEEK…Harold and Maude Seminar Preview
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Tuesday, February 1st
LECTURE: Aristotle’s Philosophy of Happiness and Meaning
JOURNAL #8: How are Aristotle’s ideas on Happiness and a Meaningful Life resonating with you? What do you reject? What questions does it raise for you?
JOURNAL 9: Virtue Reflection
Identify some of the ways you are exercising virtue in your life, using the table of Virtues and Vices and/or the 24 Character Strengths from Positive Psychology. Use artistic representations to illustrate your thoughts and annotate your drawings.
Choose 3 strengths that you feel guide you or are inextricably bound to your personal moral code. How does each add happiness/meaning to your life?
Choose 3 you wish to improve in, in order to live a more happy and meaningful life. Explain how strengthening these attributes could lead to a more fulfilled sense of being.
WORK TIME:
Exhibition Prep
OR: Read Into the Wild and work on pre-write for Lit Circle #2
OR: (optional): Do additional research on positive psychology and how it might play a role in helping us lead a happier and more meaningful life
OR: Honors NHD
OR: Conference with Jessica
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