Period 6/7 "To Build a Fire"

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/BuiFir.shtml

Period 6/7: "Sucker" Story

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/sucker-by-carson-mccullers-SEP.pdf

The End...My Only Friend...The End

Journal #40: Read the excerpt from Self-Reliance. Identify the "exemplary statement" and discuss the works overall message as it relates to the over-arching themes of Transcendentalism.

Please remember that journals are due Tuesday after Memorial Day, and all assignments will close that day.

#39: Transcendentalism, Providence and music videos

For Journal #39...try to analyze the musical works above in the context of New England Transcendentalism and the idea of American "providence."

Journal #38

Please read Emerson's aphorisms on page 222, choose one or a few to write about as Journal #38. Then, please also read Hawthorne's feelings on Emerson and Transcendentalism (hint: he's kinda against it) on page 223.

Baloo the Transcendentalist

For Journal #37 describe the ways in which Baloo's teachings mirror the themes of the "Economy" chapter.

Mini Research Expectations

1. Paper will have CREDIBLE sources used to back a central thesis based on the given prompt for TS
2. These sources will be cited both in a WORKS CITED page at end of the paper AND as parenthetical documentation within the confines of the paper itself.
3. The Works Cited sources should be formatted as either MLA or APA citations (including the source text).
4. Sources should ALSO be introduced through "narrative attribution."
5. There should be a central thesis that evinces your opinion on the given prompt.
6. There should be a divisive, hooky introduction.
7. The paper should be free of the type of grammatical, mechanical errors in grammar and construction discussed through the course of the year (i.e. second person, passive voice, parallelism errors, verb tense errors).

"Meaning of Text" Philosophy

Where does the meaning of a text exist?

Classical: everything a reader needs to know about a text is contained within. Ideas are author-driven

Modern: Ideas exist in the text AND in the CONtext of the reader (allows for cultural values, expectations, etc)

"Horizon of Expectations" -- Readers own expectations in context of work's context (time period, structure, etc)

i.e. Huckleberry Finn will mean something different to you in 20 years than it does today, because you will have more life experiences, you will be reading for pleasure, your sensibilities will be altered, I'll be out of the picture

http://www.costalfilm.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-i-have-been-saying-class-for.html

React to all these resources as Journal #36

Umm...not for nuthing, but you need this

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

HL Gates Documentary about Early America

Watch Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. on PBS. See more from Finding Your Roots.