Writing Prompt: "It's my belief we're all crazy."

“It’s my belief we’re all crazy.” (Include at least two sensory details and at least three lines of dialogue—one of which is the example.)

Persuasive Speech

• Finish researching--find at least three sources.
• Begin outlining speech (Outline due Wednesday, Mar. 17)
• Speech due Tuesday, March 23.

Silent Reading, 20 min

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (p. 252)

Directions: Read on p. 251 the section titled Literary Focus: Allegory. As you read “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” keep an eye out for Hawthorne’s descriptions of his characters and what particular aspect of human nature he means them to represent. Fill out the chart below as you read.

An allegory is a story or a poem in which characters, settings, and events

stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities.

Characters	Key Descriptions	Actions and Words	What Character Represents
Mr. Medbourne
Colonel Killigrew
Mr. Gascoigne
Widow Wycherly

On the back of this sheet, answer questions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and Vocabulary Development (1-10) on p. 261.

Writing Prompt: Write about something you want but cannot have.

Persuasive Speech

• If not turned in last time, turn in topic and purpose.
• Find and print at least three sources.
  

Silent Reading, 20 min

finish Romantic poetry (Longfellow)

• For "The Cross of Snow" answer questions 2, 3, 4, 5 on p. 202.
• With a partner, write a poem. Use an image from nature to demonstrate a strong emotion (grief, love, hatred, etc.). Create a visual to go along with your poem.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, p. 252.
  

Silent Reading, 20 min

Romantics

• Review poetry terms.
• Read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poems (yellow sheet).
  
• For "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" identify rhyme scheme, alliteration, personification, enjambment, theme.
  
• For "The Cross of Snow" identify rhyme scheme.
  

Writing Prompt: Write about a pair of shoes.

Persuasive Speech
Today's goals:

• topic development (what will you speak about?)
  
• Find research (need a minimum of three sources)

To hand in (on a notecard)

• Topic: (the general idea you'll discuss)
• Specific purpose: (What will you persuade your audience to do or believe?)

For examples and topic ideas, refer to yellow packet.

Silent Reading, 20 min

American Romanticism, Introduction

• Read intro in the book, pp. 158-172.
• Fill out goldenrod sheet on Romantics, Transcendentalists, Dark Romantics.