Warm up 10/30 Reflect on your behavior in your composition books:

How am I contributing to an effective learning environment in this class?

What negative behaviors do I need to avoid?

Early American Art

The power of nature

Read quote from Emerson, one of the American Transcendentalists

Look

up the vocabulary word assigned to your table. Highlight and annotate an important idea in the quote.

Into the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. . . .

Independent Think/Write -will be collected in 5

minutes

write a paragraph on connections to Into the Wild

discuss how Chris McCandless may have been influenced by this literature and why did he highlighted Thoreau quote found in epigraph of Chapter 6.

Share with class

5 min

Introduction to Geo Project

Look at Map in the beginning. Look through book to locate other maps. Go to second page, write in due date for components of project. For tonight begin to research geographic location. Write first paragraph IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Cite one source used to research geographic data about your location. THIS IS DUE TOMORROW

Open books to Chapter 7

As you listen write down a word in on your paper for word wall

On the Cover: Write the word, Inside right side: the definition Inside left: a sentence using the word.

Homework: Finish Chapter 7 and write first paragraph on your assigned geographic location for Geo-Project, cite source using MLA style.