In Class

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American Literature WednesdayWeek Seven

• In Class
• Focus What is the Harlem Renaissance All About?
• Introduce Vocabulary Lesson 5
• Who is Walt Whitman Anyway?
• I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman
• Social Change Project Updates and Revisions

• Homework
• I Hear Arapahoe Singing Blog Entry on the
  Class Blog
• Vocabulary Exam on Friday

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What are five things that you notice or infer
about Walt Whitman by looking at this picture?
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American Literature WednesdayWeek Seven

• TPCASTT I Hear America Singing
• T Title (questions and brainstorming on the
  title)
• P Paraphrasing (put each stanza into your own
  words)
• C Connotations (look carefully at diction word
  choice and any use of figurative language, such
  as metaphors and symbols also, listen for
  interesting sound devices such as alliteration
  and rhyme)

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American Literature WednesdayWeek Seven

• TPCASTT I Hear America Singing Part Two
• A Attitude (what is the speakers tone?)
• S Shift (is there any shift in tone?
  Where/why?)
• T Title (revisit the titleany new meaning?)
• T Theme (whats this poems larger message?)

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American Literature WednesdayWeek Seven

• Social Change Proposals
• Look through our comments and ask clarifying
  questions, if needed
• Update / Change / Revise your proposal as
  needed in the remaining time
• Have you made first contact? If so, now whats
  the next step. If not, why?

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American Literature FridayWeek Seven

• In Class
• Focus What is the Harlem Renaissance All About?
• Vocabulary Quiz Lesson 5
• Independent Reading
• Revisit Thesis Statements
• I Hear Arapahoe Singing - Your thoughts
• Social Change Project Updates

• Homework
• Finish Wikispace Updates / Connections
• Revise Thesis Statements to return on Monday
• Mr. Ruggles Student Teaching Reflection Blog
  Post
• March 16th Independent Reading Project Due

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American Literature FridayWeek Seven

• Thesis Statement Homework - Revisited
• Type a thesis statement for a four paragraph
  essay (you're not actually going to write the
  essay--we're just working on thesis statements)
  in which you address a significant theme in
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Sample In The Narrative of the Life of Frederick
  Douglass, Douglass reveals the double-edged
  nature of knowledge while knowledge can erode
  the soul by destroying ignorant bliss, it can
  also drive people to successfully command their
  own futures.
• Red The point I would make in my first body
  paragraph
• Blue The point I would make in my second body
  paragraph

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American Literature FridayWeek Seven

• Updating Your Wikispace
• Login to your personal wikispace
• Your job
• Make two specific connections between FD and your
  personal philosophy statements
• Use two quotes to back up your two connections
• Add two hyperlinks to outside sources that relate
  to your connections with FD and your personal
  philosophy
• Include two pictures into your personal
  philosophy
• Cite your two pictures and anything else you use!

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American Literature FridayWeek Seven

• Social Change Proposals
• Conference with one of us
• Make first contact (Phone call/TBD)
• Whats the timeline?
• Who is doing what? Specific steps
• When are they doing it? Write down in planner
• When will it be completed? Decide on a due date
• NEW DUE DATE March 18th and 20th (Presentations)