Friday, January 18, 2013

"Self-Reliance"

". . . envy is ignorance . . . imitation is suicide;"
                                                                                          Ralph Waldo Emerson

1.  INDEPENDENT READING -- Some of you are finished with both your books for this grading period and have asked me to go to the library.  We will forgo independent reading today . . . . and I would remind you to start looking for your next selections for second semester which is quickly approaching.  
      
     NOTE:  Be sure to share your Goodreads book review URL with me.

2.  Article of the Week #13 is due --  Annotation, summary, and your response.

3.  "Self-Reliance" -- Please take out your copy of "Self-Reliance."  You have completed all pages -- notes, questions, activities.  With a ONE PARTNER review these pages for Emerson's main ideas.  We will then have a quiz on this reading.  You may take this quiz with your study partner.

In addition to the quiz questions, on the back of the paper please write a paragraph which comments on your opinion of "Self-Reliance."  What is your response to this essay?  Begin your paragraph with:

                                In the essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson _________________

TUESDAY:  Wrapping up book reviews on Goodreads.

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