1. Welcome! October 24th, 2017 Tuesday
Do Now
Get out your weekly Bell Ringer sheet and begin working on Tuesday’s assignment. Once the bell rings, you will have five minutes to guess the meaning of the word. Make sure you explain your thinking!
Remember: Do Now's are INDEPENDENT and QUIET exercises. Thank you 

2. Read the following sentence and guess the meaning of the word subjugate based on the context.
The substitute teacher found it a challenge to subjugate a classroom full of twenty-five rowdy students.
To subjugate is to bring something or someone under domination or control, especially by conquest.
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3. Journal Heading At the top of your paper, you need: Your name 10/24/16
CP10 American Lit/Block
“Self-Reliance”

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
Today we’re reading another piece by Ralph Waldo Emerson. As I read, listen closely and underline, circle, or otherwise mark any parts where you feel yourself getting lost or not understanding. Don’t worry, we’ll stop after each paragraph and break them down together. 

5. Reading Questions
Once you’re finished, work on your IXL for the week: D.3 and D.4
What does Emerson mean by “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that…though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till”? Explain your thinking.
Why does Emerson say “let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark”?
Why did Emerson choose the quotes at the beginning to start his essay? What do they add to his piece?
What does Emerson say about society and its effects on the individual? Do you agree? Why or why not?
Do you agree with Emerson’s statement that “To be great is to be misunderstood”? Explain.
Connect Emerson’s essay to two different tenants of Transcendentalism. Be sure to back up each connection with textual evidence! 