Rising Action in Your Transcendentalist Novel: October 9, 2019

Focus: What conflicts are on the rise in our Transcendental novels?

1. Warming up with a little indulgence in nature, beauty, and gratitude

• As you watch, capture one beautiful line, phrase, or idea.
• Check out some of your photos and reflections from yesterday.

2. Taking 10 minutes to reflect on your book club novels using either the "Tracking Your Thinking" prompts or the Thought Log #2 questions

3. Reading your book club novel / preparing your syllabus

A thought about your syllabus...you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Think about the resource you already have in in American Lit, and feel free to use those to create your syllabus:

• Tracking your thinking prompts
• Thought Log prompts
• Transcendental connections to self reliance, living deliberately, and nature
• Throwback to the first unit: Interesting craft moves and beautiful words

HW:
1. For FRIDAY, OCT 11: Assigned book club reading and syllabus-making (your book should be two-thirds finished by then). Remember approximately how many minutes of reading per week you have committed to.

2. Take a minute to look at the sky.