9.3/9.4
• Due: Emerson essays.
Annotated. In tracker as
“Emerson”
• warm-up: Quiz procedures
• quiz: Vocab. 1
• post quiz: review “Ground
Zero”
• seminar: debriefing round
and Socratic round for
Emerson texts
• close: prepare for seminar
THU/FRI
• Upcoming:
9.8/9.9: Scarlet Letter seminar
9.10/9.11: TSL in-class test / Modes 1 quiz
9.16/9.17: Modes 1 test
9.25/9.28: The Awakening ch. 1-13 quiz
9.29/9.30: Vocab. 2 quiz
10.1/10.2: The Awakening ch. 14-26 quiz
10.7/10.8: Modes 2 quiz
10.9/10.12: The Awakening ch. 27-39 quiz and
seminar
10.13/10.14: The Awakening essay
10.15/10.16: Modes 2 test
9.3/9.4 quiz: Vocab. 1 quiz
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A note on how grades work.
70% of your grade will be decided by formal assessments.
30% by informal.
Vocab. quiz is informal.
It is 20 questions thus 20 points.
To give you an idea, your summer reading test is 100 formal points.
You’ll have at least three formal, 100 point tests this quarter and probably
3-4 vocab. quizzes.
• So, what is more important . . .
• Vocab. quizzes should be an easy 20 points, every other week or so. But if
you do poorly on one, don’t sweat it.
9.3/9.4 quiz: Vocab. 1 quiz
• Usual quiz procedure.
• (Quiz in folder, follow instructions on board or pick up thing next to
folder.)
• Post quiz p. 161 answer the following:
• Comprehension 1, 3
• Purpose and Audience 1
• Style and Structure 3, 5
9.3/9.4 activity: Summarize/paraphrase
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Create a summary for “Ground Zero”
Create a paraphrase for “Ground zero”
What’s the difference?
According to College Board “in a paraphrase, students list key points in
their own words. In a summary, they present in their own words the gist of
the text.”
Begin by numbering the paragraphs.
Choose a partner.
Working in pairs, write a one-sentence summary of each paragraph. Then
transform your paraphrased sentences into a holistic summary.
Now that you’ve worked with this text, modify the practice to create
paraphrases into summaries of Emerson’s texts. Work faster on this.
9.3/9.4 activity: debriefing
“Nature”
1. Opening question: How do transcendentalists view their relationship with nature?
2. Core question: How does nature “fit equally well” a good or bad mood (1)?
3. Core question: What does Emerson mean when he says “a perennial festival is
dressed” (7-8)?
4. Core question: What does Emerson mean when he claims that “all mean egotism
vanishes” when he’s in nature (12)?
5. Core question: “In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in
the streets or villages” (17-18). What transcendentalist belief does this quote
represent?
6. Core question: Explain the “occult relation” that exists between man and nature (21).
7. Closing question: In what way does the themes of the text relate to TSL?
9.3/9.4 notes: Seminar prep
• So that was a debriefing seminar.
• We’ve done a few of those.
• Would you now like to try and Socratic seminar?
• Students ask questions of each other in a discussion focused on a
topic. The questions initiate a (hopefully) natural conversation that
can extend to ideas beyond the initial topic.
• The purpose of doing this is to clarify concepts, create new concepts
and challenge old concepts.
• So we can do another debriefing with the other Emerson text OR we
can try a Socratic seminar. Your call.
9.3/9.4 notes: Socratic seminar/Emerson
• Opening question (1 question)
• Introduces a broad generalization that looks into the text for an answer
• Introduces and explores topics, ideas, and themes
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Core questions (2-4 questions)
Require content-specific information
Seek an examination and/or clarification of central points
Explore cause-effect relationships
Call for interpretation and exploration
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Closing question (1 question)
Establishes relevance
Asks for a connection with the real world
Directs an application to self
9.3/9.4 activity: Debriefing seminar/Emerson
“Self-Reliance”
1. Why is imitation suicide?
2. Explain the metaphor “kernel of nourishing corn” (3-4).
3. What is Emerson’s definition of “great men” (8).
4. Explain “whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist” (12).
5. According to Emerson, what is “sacred” (14)?
6. To what effect does Emerson use exemplification in the third paragraph?
7. “ ‘Good and bad are but names’ ” (22) (like Ralph and Waldo???). What does
Waldo mean?
8. Emerson claims that the “other terror that scares us from self-trust is our [ . . . ]
past” (37-38). How does he mean?
9. Why does Emerson slay “statesmen and philosophers and divines” (41)?
10. What is Emerson’s tone?
11. What are the dominant rhetorical strategies Emerson employs to develop his
position?
12. State what Emerson’s position on the development of an individual is.
9.3/9.4 notes: TSL Socratic seminar prep
• Opening question (1 question)
• Introduces a broad generalization that looks into the text for an answer
• Introduces and explores topics, ideas, and themes
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Core questions (2-4 questions)
Require content-specific information
Seek an examination and/or clarification of central points
Explore cause-effect relationships
Call for interpretation and exploration
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Closing question (1 question)
Establishes relevance
Asks for a connection with the real world
Directs an application to self
9.3/9.4 notes: TSL Socratic seminar prep
• Prepare a set of at least four typed seminar questions and answers.
You will need to have one opening question, 3-4 core questions, and
one closing question.
• Please keep your answers separate from you questions (in other
words, don’t answer the questions on the same page)
• Each answer to each question should be approximately 150 words.
• Next class I will detail how you will be graded for you seminar.
9.3/9.4
CLOSE and HW
• Read 191-198 exemplification. Take notes as needed.
• Read “Make That a Double” by Sedaris on p. 218-220.
• Complete your Socratic seminar prep for the TSL seminar. Bring TSL.
Seminar next class.