Romanticism with a Capital "R": November 27, 2017

Focus: What is Romanticism with a capital "R"?

1. Warming up three good things and a few Romantic questions mini writes:

• How are you affected by nature? Do you find comfort in it? Do you reflect the moods of nature? 

• What is the role of nature in your life? 

• What is meant by an individual's spiritual side? How to you define it? 

• Is there a connection between the individual's spirit and nature? If so, what is that connection? 

• What does it mean to know something intuitively? For example, has a parent or a sibling ever known something was wrong with you without having talked with or seen you? What do we mean when we say "I just know it"? 

• How do you demonstrate that you are an individual? Do you think independently of others or do you follow the crowd?

2. Visiting nature images and creating Romantic metaphors

3. Exploring the Romantic metaphor in Longfellow's poetry as a class and with a partner

• What's the central metaphor in this poem? In other word, what object stands for a larger idea, and what's that idea?
• ex: Lighthouse stands for paternal love 

• How? How do the specific qualities of the object connect to the idea? Consider the metaphor exercise we did earlier in class.

• Why? Why did the author create this metaphor? What's the larger message/theme?

4. Finalizing book clubs (size 3-5, strictly enforced)

HW:
1.  Complete your transcendentalist book approval form and purchase/check out your book NOW! You will need a copy in your warm, little hands on Tuesday, Nov 28. This will be a 10-point completion grade with a one-point deduction for every day it's late.

2. Selecting a new one-minute speech topic or revising the one that you had before break; you will deliver your one-minute speech in front of the class this Friday. The most important thing: Focus on improving one aspect of your speech delivery that you identified as a weakness before break.

3. WHAT? YOU STILL HAVE YOUR ELIC BOOK? FORK IT OVER!