MOVED Day 77 (12/4): Thanatopsis

Warm Up:
Review "Thanatopsis"

Standards:
ELAGSE11-12RL2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE11-12RL9 Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century foundational works (of American Literature, British Literature, World Literature, or Multicultural Literature), including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.

Essential Questions:

1. How do form and meaning work together to create powerful writing?
2. How can we take writing apart (i.e., analyze) without destroying this carefully interwoven fabric?

Agenda:

• Discussion: Meaning and Form in Poetry and Beyond
• Read "Thanatopsis"
• Discuss "Thanatopsis"

Homework:

• Review "Thanatopsis" for quiz tomorrow