Power+of+the+Human+Spirit+and+Individualism

= = == = = =Expository essay: homework for 1/21/12= using the chart you completed with your group on friday, write and essay expliang how you either agree or disagree with one of the following quotes: == =__**Essential Questions:**__=


 * Who am I?
 * How am I influenced?
 * How do the actions, behaviors and words of political, religious and social groups as well as media influence society today?
 * Why are people more prone to conforming than rebelling?

The Scarlet Letter Using a double journal entry format, respond to each group of chapters from the perspective of Pearl. Be sure to selct a quote from the as your reference to the event you are discussing.

Study Guide Questions Basic version:

Study Guide/ Classwork sheets:

Vocabulary List:

Supplimental Reading Assignments:

Performance Tasks: 1. You have been studying various pieces of literature focusing on individualism. Write a poem or song expressing individuality and/or non-conformity. Your poem needs to incorporate literary and/or poetic devices.

2. Children are easily influences by others. You are a famous psychologist and want to write a children's book, which teaches children a lesson about not being influenced by others or the importance of standing up for his/her self despite others. Your children's book must be at least twenty pages and must be illustrated. You can illustrate the book yourself, have someone else do it for you, or use a computer application like Toondo. Your work will be assessed for: its ability to convey the message, the elements of a story, dialogue and creativity.

Other Evidence: 1. Write an essay comparing and contrasting you to someone else.

2. Select an advertisement from a magazine or television. Write an essay analyzing how the advertisement manipulates the consumer into buying the product.

3. Friedrich Nietzche said, "You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." Write an essay analyzing if there is only one correct way or not.

4. Write an argumentative essay convincing your parents to allow you to go on a week vacation with your friends.

5. Write an argumentative essay that is similar to one on the state test or SATs.

6. Tests and quizzes on the readings

7. Open-Ended Questions

8. Timed Reading


 * Required and Enhancing Works:**

Nature, Self-Reliance by Emerson

When I Heard the Learned Astronomer By Whitman
 * Week of MARCH 10 to 15th**

The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Dickinson Tell the Truth but Tell it Slant by Dickinson

Richard Cory Robinson Miniver Cheevey by Robinson
 * Week of March 17th to 21st**

Mending Wall by Frost The Road Not Taken by Frost

Think as I Think by Crane The Mortgaged Heart by McCullers Sucker by McCullers

//The Scarlet Letter// by Hawthorne Men are from Mars Women are from Venus by Gray

Advertisements Civil Disobedience and excerpts from //Walden// by Thoreau

The Lottery by Jackson