Senior Project Stuff and Transcendentalism

Announcements:

1. Senior Project Calendar:  You need to plan on attending all your other classes through March, but NOT in April.
2. AHS advisors will be announced on January 26
   • If you have an outside advisor, that’s fine, but you’ll also have an in school advisor.  We can talk about what this looks like for SPAM meetings when they start.
3. REMEMBER:  Check ins for Senior Project are happening next week!  The stuff we assigned you at POLS should be largely done by then.

Starter 5- We need this for adviser matching!
GOOGLE DOC List of research questions and summary/project idea

Coach End of Solitude

1. What's the thesis?
2. Share your favorite lines, and why you liked them.
3. Go through paragraph by paragraph and summarize the main ideas.  This is your chance to clear up any confusion.
4. Share seminar questions, come up with two really good ones as a group, give them to Lori on a post it.

Transcendentalism/Romantics Lecture

1. Transcendentalism/Romantics Ppt

 
Review Seminar Prep Guidelines

1. Read and annotate
2. What’s the thesis for each document?
   1. Self Reliance
   2. Solitude
   3. Pine Forest
3. Write a TEA paragraph for each essential question, pulling from all the seminar texts and Into the Wild (you may use “The End of Solitude” too) for evidence
4. Write 2-3 seminar questions.  These could be questions you don’t know the answer to, or questions that you think would spark a healthy discussion.
5. Due, in ONE DOCUMENT, on Thursday, 1/21.  Plan your time well.  You will need to have all documents READ by Tuesday, 1/19.  We will coach the documents that day.

 
Essential Questions

1. To what extent have our technological advancements and changes in societal structures exacerbated feelings of loneliness and prevent opportunities for solitude?
   
2. To what extent is it important to be self-reliant?
   
3. What obstacles prevent us from cultivating self-reliance and solitude?
   
4. What main claims from Emerson and Thoreau about self-reliance vs. conformity and solitude v. society apply to the ways in which we interact and “connect” in today’s world?
   
5. What are the benefits of solitude and self-reflection? Time in nature?
   
6. To what extent do Thoreau, Emerson and McCandless’s ideas serve as a guide for how you want to live your own life? Which ideas resonate with you? Which do you reject?

 
Read “Self-Reliance” by Emerson

HOMEWORK:

1. DUE TUESDAY, 1/19-  Read and Annotate: 
   1. Self Reliance
   2. Solitude
   3. Pine Forest
2. DUE THURSDAY 1/21- Seminar prep packet with thesis statements, EQ TEA paragraphs, and seminar questions.