Assignments

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1 Scary Short Story 7 PM	2	3 Describe a time when you ran away (literally or figuratively) from one of your problems. How did it feel to escape, where did you go, and why did you go there? What happened when you returned? 12:25 PM	4	5 "Rip Van Winkle" 7 PM	6 In your opinion, what makes a poem...a poem? Explain and justify your response. 12:25 PM Which animation do you feel best represented your personal insights into Whitman's poem? How did you feel about the other readings and animations? Explain your choice. 12:25 PM	7
8 Whitman, Dickinson, and you 7 PM	9	10 What values are formed through a relationships with nature? Consider the question from the following viewpoints: a farmer, a city dweller, a suburbanite, and yourself. 12:25 PM "Nature" and "Self-Reliance" Comprehension Check questions 1-3 12:25 PM	11	12 "Nature" and "Self-Reliance" 7 PM	13 Under what circumstances would you be willing to go to jail for a moral or political principle? Provide a brief description of the principle and of your feelings about it. Alternatively, explain why you wouldn't be willing to commit civil disobedience under any circumstances. 12:25 PM	14
15 "Resistance to Civil Government" 7 PM	16	17 "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Comprehension Check 12:25 PM What associations do the Fourth of July and Independence Day evoke? How do you think an enslaved person might have answered the same question in 1852? In what ways might Fourth of July celebrations have been ironic to those who were enslaved? 12:25 PM	18	19 "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Writing to Sources 7 PM	20 Elegant Discomfort 12:25 PM	21
22 "A Pair of Silk Stockings" 7 PM	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	1 Inappropriate photos and videos 12:25 PM Cyber Bullying Scenarios (Group work) 12:25 PM Why should you avoid exchanging inappropriate photos and videos? 12:25 PM	2	3 Internet Safety Infographic 7 PM	4 "Life on the Mississippi" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Comprehension Check Questions 12:25 PM "Life on the Mississippi" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog" 12:25 PM	5