{"id":172,"date":"2016-07-06T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/tsag2016\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:48:28","slug":"henry-at-the-woods-teaching-thoreau-to-21st-century-high-schoolers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/tsag2016\/friday-july-8\/henry-at-the-woods-teaching-thoreau-to-21st-century-high-schoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry at the Woods: Teaching Thoreau to 21st-Century High Schoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Nancy Manning | \u00a9 Nancy Manning 2016<\/p>\n<h3>I.  Unit One <\/h3>\n<h4>Essential Question:  How do individuals shape society?<\/h4>\n<h5>1. Summer Reading Lists:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, <em>Into the Wild<\/em>, and free choice by an Amer. author (H)<\/li>\n<li><em>Into the Wild<\/em> and free choice by an American author (CP)<\/li>\n<li><em>Into the Wild <\/em>article (C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>2. Transcendentalists:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>RWE and HDT (bios, SIN and non-fiction terms\u2014see attached) (H\/CP\/C)<\/li>\n<li>Emerson excerpts from **\u201cNature\u201d and \u201cSelf-Reliance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Thoreau excerpts from **<em>Walden<\/em> and \u201cCivil Disobedience\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>3. VISIT BY THOREAU (Richard Smith) (see attached questions)<\/h5>\n<h5>4. Anti-Transcendentalists:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Hawthorne, Poe, and Bierce  (fiction terms) (H\/CP\/C)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYoung Goodman Brown,\u201d \u201cThe Cask of Amontillado,\u201d and \u201cThe Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>5. Grammar\u2014POS, capitalization, sentences, punctuation, run-ons, fragments (H\/CP\/C)<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<h5>6. Vocabulary\u2014Units 1-3 (H\/CP\/C)<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<h5>7. Unit Assessment\u2014Transcendentalism Project (see attached) (H\/CP\/C)<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<h5>8. Unit Project\u2014PowerPoint presentation on The Short Story ((H\/CP\/C)<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<h3>II.  Unit Two<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>Essential Question:   How do individuals shape society?<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Frederick Douglass\u2019s <em>Narrative <\/em>excerpt:  \u201cMy Bondage, My Freedom\u201d (learning to read) (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Ben Franklin\u2019s <em>Autobiography <\/em>excerpt (Moral Perfection) (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Mark Twain\u2014<em>Huck Finn<\/em>  (H, CP) excerpts (C)\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Whirligig<\/em> (C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Grammar\u2014usage, s\/v agr (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Vocabulary\u20144-7 (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Unit Assessment\u2014Essay on how society is affected by choices (see attached) (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Midterm Exam<\/h2>\n<h3>III. Unit Three<\/h3>\n<h4>Essential question:  How does society shape the individual?<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Poetry by Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman (poetry terms) (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Dead Poets Society<\/em> (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Harper Lee\u2019s <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Grammar\u2014verb tenses (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Vocabulary\u2014Units 8-10 (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Unit Assessment\u2014Poetry Essay (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Unit Project\u2014PowerPoint presentation on Poetry (H\/CP\/C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>IV.  Unit Four<\/h3>\n<h4>Essential Question\u2014How does society shape the individual?<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ray Bradbury\u2019s <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> (CP\/C)<\/li>\n<li>Arthur Miller\u2019s <em>Crucible<\/em> (H)<\/li>\n<li>Grammar\u2014objects, phrases and clauses, and pronouns (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Vocabulary\u2014Units 11-14 (H\/CP\/C)\n<\/li>\n<li>Unit Assessment\u2014Essay on the Final Exam about how society shapes individuals  (see attached) (H\/CP\/C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>FINAL EXAM<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Nancy Manning | \u00a9 Nancy Manning 2016 I. Unit One Essential Question: How do individuals shape society? 1. Summer Reading Lists: Fahrenheit 451, Into the Wild, and free choice by an Amer. author (H) Into the Wild and free choice by an American author (CP) Into the Wild article (C) 2. 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