PLC / Tribe: Shortened Class
1. Warming up by taking inventory of your material possessions
Start a new post on your transcendentalist blog in which you try the following:
- Make a list of the material possessions you use on a daily basis.
- Which ones are essential to you? Put these in bold or a different font color.
- How did you define "essential" as you were doing this exercise?
2. Meeting the Man Who Quit Money
- What is essential to Suelo?
- What is deliberate about his lifestyle?
3. Reading the excerpt from Walden
- How does Henry David Thoreau define "essential"? In other words, what do humans need to live a fulfilling life?
- What must humans transcend in order to live a fulfilling life, and how do we do this?
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus-creating for tomorrow. Keep in mind the feedback you received on your first and second syllabi.
2. Work on your final speech by gathering evidence (personal stories, others' stories, historical events, parts of literature that we've read, interviews, images). Bring all collected evidence to class this Friday for your last in-class day of speech preparation.
3. Click HERE if you'd like to preview the rubric for your transcendentalist blog posts. Your blog, as well ALL MAKE-UP WORK / REVISIONS FROM THE LAST 6 WEEKS must be completed by 3:00 pm on Thursday, December 14. Please note: This will be one of the few assignments that you will not be able to revise or take extra time on because we are at the end of the semester.
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