Emerson: “Self Reliance”

1. Emerson: “Self Reliance” 14 March 2013 Miss Rice Dare to be different!

2. Warm-Up • If you did not know that “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” was a transcendental work, would you categorize it as so? Why? • List the characteristics of transcendentalism that you see in the poem and examples of each one. *Please take out vocab. paragraph to be collected.

3. Agenda • Suffixes • Comma Rules • Longfellow • Emerson

4. CP Objectives 3/14 • To learn and review comma rules. • To understand how Emerson’s biographical information informs his work. • To find transcendental characteristics in “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls.” • To relate Emerson’s biographical information to the themes of “Self Reliance.” • To contribute equally in small group. • To analyze segments of “Self Reliance” and understand the work’s themes. • To make modern day connection to “Self Reliance.” • To reinforce knowledge of new vocabulary.

5. Students of the Week • Block 2 • Shaina: Not afraid to ask questions, always prepared, shares opinions • Block 4 • Monica: Responsible (made up all work from when she was out), positive attitude, helpful

6. Suffixes • ful • Full of _____ • Adj. • ic • Having characteristics of _____ • Adj. • ing • Verb form (present participle)

7. 7. Using commas with quotations • Commas set off a quotation from words used to introduce or identify the source of the quotation. • ***A comma following a quotation goes inside the closing quotation mark.

8. 7. Using commas with quotations • Use a comma beforethe quotation marks and after a phrase that introduces a quotation. • A comma following a quotation goes insidethe closing quotation mark. • Do not use commas if you are endinga quotation with a question mark or exclamation point. • Add commas to a-d *Short quiz early next week *Comma Rules practice ALL SECTIONS due Monday

9. Can you find the comma mistake?

10. Homework • “This I Believe” presentation due tomorrow • Technology compatibility • Leave it with us • Give us your rubric tomorrow • Vocab. unit 3 test tomorrow • Comma WS Sections 1-8 due Monday • Get notecards and folder!

11. “I am a part of all that I have seen.”

12. Dare to be different!

17. Man Living Amongst Animals • Grizzly Man and Timmy the Fox: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEo7W5Oib8M

18. Warm-Up • If you did not know that “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” is a transcendental work, would you categorize it as so? Why? • List the characteristics of transcendentalism that you see in the poem and examples of each.

19. “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” • Themes • Cyclical • Life and death are natural • Everyone dies • Returning to the earth

20. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • 1807-1882 • Born in Portland, Maine • Lived near the ocean

21. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Most popular poet after Robert Frost

22. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Taught at Harvard for 18 years

23. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Appealed to a general audience • Spoke to the common man

24. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Offers comfort about life and death • Woooooo!

25. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Criticism • Sentimental • Optimistic

26. Longfellow and “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” • 72 when he wrote it • 3 years from his death • Returns to his boyhood in Portland when he loved listening to the sounds of the waves • Water symbolized life to Longfellow

27. Ralph Waldo Emerson Born in Boston to a family that was poor but cultured - he was one of six children His father died of TB when Emerson was 8 and his mother opened a boarding house

28. Ralph Waldo Emerson His aunt, Mary Moody Emerson, took his father’s place - she emphasized self-sacrifice and drove the Emerson boys to achievement Emerson entered Harvard at age 14 as an indifferent yet well-read student

29. Ralph Waldo Emerson He became a minister, like the eight generations of Emersons before him (unitarian) His life was a series of attempts to establish his own identity against his background of expectations Eventually he stepped down from the pulpit after his wife died from TBat the age of 19and along with his grief came a disbelief in some of the central doctrines of his religion

30. Ralph Waldo Emerson He eventually remarried and his new wife had 4 children Unfortunately, his eldest son Waldo died at the age of 5 from scarlet fever

31. Ralph Waldo Emerson He eventually took up writing and lecturing He expressed the advantages of a young land - its energy, opportunity, and freedom - more than anyone before him Appealed to both intellectuals and the common man because he focused on humanity He is considered on of the leaders of the Transcendentalist movement In his later years, Emerson suffered from severe memory loss

32. “Self Reliance” • “Self Reliance” mood and modern connection • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Senkf92xmnc • Great themes, but somewhat dry • Therefore, we will get the main ideas from excerpts

33. “Self Reliance” Group Work • Groups picked using playing cards • Read • Define • Meaning • Key Ideas (everyone writes this in) • Modern Connection (song- school appropriate) • Poster • Names • Meaning • Key Ideas • Definitions • Bio. Connection • Song • Illustration Roles: -Researcher -Illustrator -Presenter -Translator (optional)

34. Group Materials • One laptop • One dictionary • One orange literature book • Markers • Poster paper

35. Vobackulary • If we have time…

36. Homework • “This I Believe” presentation due tomorrow • Technology compatibility • Leave it with us • Give us your rubric tomorrow • Vocab. unit 3 test tomorrow • Comma WS Sections 1-8 due Monday • Get notecards and folder!