Transcendentalism 1.1
Do Now: how was writing the summer reading letter? What is a strength? What is a weakness?
Objectives:
- get to know peers in class
- practice inference
- identify personal beliefs
Agenda:
1. Do now
2. With a partner, try to make sense of each six word memoir.
- Moving again. Goodbye strangers. Hello strangers.
- Leap! Catch football. Crunch. Goodbye scholarship.
- Mistaken verdict. Life sentence. I'm appealing.
- Little brother. Big game. Last laugh. (Eli Manning)
- Actually, I never had a mother.
- Bleached blonde. Everyone knew. Never cared.
- Small hand in mine. Hello suburbs!
3. Write your own six-word memoir, summing up your life so far.
4. Introduce the “This I Believe” assignment (samples here)
5. Listen/read samples
6. Brainstorm ideas
7. Summarizer
HW: Read Ben Franklin Handout
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