Calvin and Hobbes/ Music

Go to google and find a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that shows a Transcendental idea. Post it in your blog.

Homework: Look at your favorite comic. Find an example that shows a Transcendental idea. Post the comic and explain how it expresses the idea.

Homework Part II: Find a song that shows the ideas of Transcendentalism. Post the lyrics. Bring in the song to play in the class.

Annotated Bibliography

Go to this link

Read the information about Annotated Bibliography. Today, decide on a topic for the Year Long Civil Disobedience Project with your group. Each person should find one source and do one annotation with the summary, assessment and reflection. Post it in the blog.

American Literary Periods

How is the Colonial Period different from the Romantic Period? What are some characteristics of Transcendentalism? How did the Historical Context affect these Literary Periods?

The Glass Menagerie

Put the script from yesterday into a PDF file and email it to me.

Next, as a group answer the Pre-Show discussion questions. Post the answers in a blog with everybody's first name on the blog.

Civil Disobedience Project

Pick your group. Brainstorm three ideas. Post the three ideas. Link to one .edu or .gov article for each idea. Cite the article using MLA format.

Common Themes

Go to wordle.net

Copy and paste the essay by Thoreau, the speech by Martin Luther King Jr. and the song by Rage Against the Machine into wordle. The words that are the biggest are the most common words. What do you think this says about the themes of their writing? How do they all connect?

Teen Suicide

Why do so many teenagers commit suicide? Find a .gov or .edu site that has information about teenage suicide; make a link to it in your blog.

Crucible Poem

Read three poems. Post one comment on each.