Transcendental Take-Aways: October 23, 2019

Focus: What are your transcendentalist book club take-aways?

1. Checking in with how you're doing today

2. Returning the big Transcendental questions and brainstorming

• Write the Transcendental question you have selected at the top of a fresh sheet of paper in the WRITING section of your notebook.

• You have ten minutes with your book clubs to discuss your questions. You do not need to have the same question as the other members of your group.

• As you listen and discuss, jot down ideas on that same sheet of paper.

• Spend about 5 more minutes individually reflecting on your question:

• Which scenes, characters, setting, symbols, and other highly specific elements from your book might help you answer this question?

3. Seeking specific evidence

• Grab 5 notecards.

• Flip back through your book and find five quotations that relate to your Transcendental question.

• Span the whole book; some quotations should be from the beginning, middle, and end of your novel.

• Write one quotation on each notecard, and be sure to include the page number, speaker, and context (a little plot summary).

• Paste each notecard at the top of its own sheet of paper in your WRITING section.

HW:
1. For Tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct 23: 

• Finish today's activity if you did not finish in class.
• If you'd like to revise your personal essay, please set up a conference with me by this date.

2. Friday, Oct 25: Be ready to compose your literary essay in class this day. You are welcome to type or handwrite.