September 8, 2015
E.Q: Collaborate with my peers to determine meanings of a text.
Collaborate with my peers to create a formulaic paragraph based on the assigned reading.
Obj: I can collaborate with my peers to determine meanings of a text.
I can collaborate with my peers to create a piece of writing based on a text.
Starter:
Unpack the quote
Nature centres into balls,
And her proud ephemerals,
Fast to surface and outside,
Scan the profile of the sphere;
Knew they what that signified,
A new genesis were here.
Put this quote into your own words.
Vocabulary:
Use this document to follow along with the vocab for this unit.
Make sure to make a copy of it in your folder, and make the appropriate additions.
Activity:
1. Literature Circles
In your assigned literature circles you will read the first 3 and 1/2 pages of Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Start at the paragraph: "The eye is the first circle" and read through the paragraph "How often must we learn this lesson?"
Alternate readers throughout and don't forget to annotate when necessary using Scrible.
When you are done reading, complete the task for your designated role.
Summarizer
Discussion Director
Literary Luminary
Vocab Enricher
Connector
When you are done, share the information with your group.
2. Collaborative TPEQEA assignment
With the members of your lit circle respond to the following question in a TPEQEA paragraph:
Compare Emerson's attitude towards change to Thoreau's view in Civil Disobedience.
Closure:
Which one quote best explains this section of Circles?
Justify why you selected that quote.
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