Brighton High School
iPad Policy, Procedures, and Information
iPad Program
The focus of the iPad program at Brighton High School is to provide tools and resources to the 21st Century Learner. Excellence in education requires that technology be seamlessly integrated throughout the educational program. Increasing access to technology is essential for that future, and one of the learning tools of these twenty-first century students is the iPad computer.
General Precautions
The iPad is school property and all users will follow this policy and the Brighton acceptable use policy for technology.
• Cords and cables must be inserted carefully into the iPad to prevent damage.
• iPads must remain free of any writing, drawing, stickers, or labels that are not the property
of the Canyons School District.
• Care should be taken to avoid placing too much pressure and weight on the iPad
screen.
Screensavers/Background photos
• Inappropriate media may not be used as a screensaver or background photo.
• Presence of guns, weapons, pornographic materials, inappropriate language, alcohol, drug, gang related symbols or pictures will result in disciplinary actions.
• Passwords are not to be used.
Sound, Music, Games, or Programs
• Sound must be muted at all times unless permission is obtained from the teacher for
instructional purposes.
• Internet Games are not allowed on the iPads. If game apps are installed, it will be with
Brighton staff authorization.
• All software/Apps must be district provided. Data Storage will be through apps on the iPad and email to a server location.
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Saving to the iPad/Home Directory
Students may save work to the home directory on the iPad. It is recommended students e-mail documents to himself or herself for storage on a flash drive or District server. Storage space will be available on the iPad—BUT it will NOT be backed up in case of re-imaging. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that work is not lost due to mechanical failure or accidental deletion. iPad malfunctions are not an acceptable excuse for not submitting work.
Originally Installed Software
The software/Apps originally installed by BRIGHTON must remain on the iPad in usable condition and be easily accessible at all times. From time to time the school may add software applications for use in a particular course. The licenses for this software require that the software be deleted from iPads at the completion of the course. Periodic checks of iPads will be made to ensure that students have not removed required apps.
Inspection
Students may be selected at random to provide their iPad for inspection.
Acceptable Use
The use of Brighton technology resources is a privilege, not a right. This policy is provided to make all users aware of the responsibilities associated with efficient, ethical, and lawful use of technology resources. If a person violates any of the User Terms and Conditions named in this policy, privileges may be terminated, access to the school district technology resources may be denied, and the appropriate disciplinary action shall be applied. The Brighton Student Code of Conduct will be applied to student infractions.
Violations may result in disciplinary action up to and including suspension/ expulsion for students. When applicable, law enforcement agencies may be involved.
Students are Responsibilities for:
• Using computers/devices in a responsible and ethical manner.
• Obeying general school rules concerning behavior and communication that apply to iPad/computer use.
• Using all technology resources in an appropriate manner so as to not damage school equipment. This “damage” includes, but is not limited to, the loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, mis-deliveries or service interruptions caused by the student negligence, errors or omissions. Use of any information obtained via Canyons District’s designated Internet System is at your own risk. Canyons District specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services.
• Helping Brighton protect our computer system/device by contacting an administrator about any security problems they may encounter.
• Monitoring all activity on your account(s).
• Students should always turn off and secure their iPad in the mobile lab after they are done working to protect their work and information.
• If a student should receive email containing inappropriate or abusive language or if the subject matter is questionable, he/she is asked to print a copy and turn it in to their respective assistant principal.
Student Activities Strictly Prohibited:
• Illegal installation or transmission of copyrighted materials
• Any action that violates existing Board policy or public law
• Sending, accessing, uploading, downloading, or distributing offensive, profane, threatening, pornographic, obscene, or sexually explicit materials
• Use of chat rooms, sites selling term papers, book reports and other forms of student work
• Messaging services-EX: MSN Messenger, ICQ, etc
• Internet/Computer Games
• Use of outside data disks or external attachments without prior approval from the administration
• Changing of iPad settings (exceptions include personal settings such as font size, brightness, etc)
• Downloading apps
• Spamming-Sending mass or inappropriate emails
• Gaining access to other student’s accounts, files, and/or data
• Use of the school’s internet/E-mail accounts for financial or commercial gain or for any illegal activity
• Use of anonymous and/or false communications such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger
• Students are not allowed to give out personal information, for any reason, over the Internet. This includes, but is not limited to, setting up internet accounts including those necessary for chat rooms, Ebay, email, etc. Participation in credit card fraud, electronic forgery or other forms of illegal behavior.
• Vandalism (any malicious attempt to harm or destroy hardware, software or data, including, but not limited to, the uploading or creation of computer viruses or computer programs that can infiltrate computer systems and/or damage software components) of school equipment will not be allowed
• Transmission or accessing materials that are obscene, offensive, threatening or otherwise intended to harass or demean recipients.
• Bypassing Canyons School District web filter through a web proxy
Legal Propriety
• Comply with trademark and copyright laws and all license agreements. Ignorance of the law is not immunity. If you are unsure, ask a teacher or parent.
• Plagiarism is a violation of the Brighton’s Code of Conduct. Give credit to all sources used, whether quoted or summarized. This includes all forms of media on the Internet, such as graphics, movies, music, and text.
• Use or possession of hacking software is strictly prohibited and violators will be subject to punishment. Violation of applicable state or federal law will result in criminal prosecution or disciplinary action by Canyons School District.
Student Discipline
If a student violates any part of the above policy, he/she will be lose iPad privileges.
iPads Left in Unsupervised Areas
Under no circumstances should iPads be left in unsupervised areas or removed from room 322.
REPAIRING OR REPLACING YOUR iPAD COMPUTER
Students will be held responsible for ALL damage to their iPads including, but not limited to: broken screens, cracked plastic pieces, inoperability, etc. Should the cost to repair exceed the cost of purchasing a new device, the student will pay for full replacement value. Lost items such as covers and cables will be charged the actual replacement cost.
Student Name (Please Print): _____________________________________________________
Student Signature:___________________________________________Date:_______________
Parent Name (Please Print): ______________________________________________________
Parent Signature: ___________________________________________D
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Syllabus
English 11b Honors Disclosure
Mrs. Larson
Karen.Larson@canyonsdistrict.org
This course covers grammar and vocabulary study along with selected literature from novel, drama, tragedy, short story, and poetry. Students will write in journals and respond to readings. Emphasis will be on the multi-paragraph writing unit.
Expectations
• Each student is required to bring a steno pad to class every day for journal writing and be prepared with a pencil and pen, paper and material that we are working on in class.
• Cheating, whether on assignments, quizzes, or tests is totally unacceptable. Anyone found cheating will receive no credit. If an assignment has been copied from another student, this will also apply to the person who “lent” the work to the student. All work required for this class is to be done by the student.
• Homework is to be turned in at the beginning of class. Any work not turned in at the proper time is considered late. Work turned in after the deadline will receive half credit, with a full grade mark-down each day after the deadline.
• Please keep all of your graded work until the end of the trimester. If there is an error in a grade, the work will be used to help make the correction.
• No food, pagers, phones, hats, electronics, (iPods, MP3 players, etc.) are allowed in class.
• Any students seen doing work from another class will have that work confiscated and will receive a zero on the English assignment for the day.
• It is expected that all students will treat each other with respect, especially during class discussions. Anyone who shows disrespect to either the teacher or any classmate, either verbally or through physical gestures, will be asked to leave and must resolve the matter with school administration. There will not be any rude, hurtful, harmful comments, nor any swearing, crude language, or anything inappropriate in the classroom.
• Students are allowed to use the hall pass three times a trimester.
• Any student who does not maintain a B- (80%) average will be removed from the Honors program at the end of the trimester.
If you have any problems or concerns, please contact me. I am available before and after school Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Please feel free to email me at Karen.Larson@canyonsdistrict.org or call at (801) 826-5800.
Student Materials: Students are required to have a steno pad that is brought to class each day for journal writing. Another requirement is submitting a “marked” book. The book must start clean at the beginning of the unit. Therefore, each student will need to purchase the required reading book (The Great Gatsby). The cost for this book will be $_____________ and will be paid at the main office by ____________.
Grading Policy
In this class, grades are earned by the student, not given by the teacher. Grades are based on in-class work, assignments and homework, quizzes and tests, projects and preparation. Grades are based on the following scale:
94-100% A 83-80% B- 67-69% D+
93-90 A- 79-77 C+ 66-64 D
89-87 B+ 76-74 C 63-69 D-
86-84 B 73-70 C- 59 and below F
50% Assignments 30% Writing 20% In-Class Work
Students and parents can monitor grades and attendance by checking Skyward. Any student who discovers an error on his/her grade when viewing Skyward should speak with me. Mid-term grades will be issued to each student and progress and attendance notices will be sent throughout the trimester as needed.
For questions concerning plagiarism, please see the attached English Department Policy.
Attendance Policy and Make-Up Work
This class follows Brighton High’s attendance policy. As per Brighton High School’s attendance policy, failure to attend class may result in a loss of credit for this course.
After an absence, it is the student’s responsibility to obtain make-up work. All make-up work, including tests and quizzes, must be completed within five days of the absence. Tests and quizzes may need to be made up before or after school.
Occasionally, I will have students in the class correct the work of other students. I will also hang students’ work (poems, projects, etc.) in the classroom. Students will also peer edit each other’s papers. This practice has an important educational purpose in that it allows students to review assignments and consider opinions that may be different than their own.
Videos and Internet
Your signature of the disclosure statement also indicates that you are allowing your student to watch a few PG or PG-13 rated videos in class. If your student does not wish to watch a film, the student will need to make alternate arrangements with me before the class views the film.
At least once during each trimester, there will be Internet work. Parent signature on this form indicates that the student has parental permission to use the Internet in class on classroom assignments.
Please return this portion to the teacher. The signature indicates that you have carefully read the disclosure and are aware of the classroom procedures and policies and realize the resulting consequences. It also gives parental release for your student to view movies and use the Internet.
_____________________________________________________ _____________
Student name—PLEASE PRINT Period
_____________________________________________________ ______________
Parent/guardian signature Date
____________________________________________________
Student signature
Parent/Guardian Contact Information:
Father: Home Phone: Cell: Work:
Email:
Mother: Home Phone: Cell: Work:
Email:
Guardian: Home Phone: Cell: Work:
Email:
Mrs. Larson
Karen.Larson@canyonsdistrict.org
This course covers grammar and vocabulary study along with selected literature from novel, drama, tragedy, short story, and poetry. Students will write in journals and respond to readings. Emphasis will be on the multi-paragraph writing unit.
Expectations
• Each student is required to bring a steno pad to class every day for journal writing and be prepared with a pencil and pen, paper and material that we are working on in class.
• Cheating, whether on assignments, quizzes, or tests is totally unacceptable. Anyone found cheating will receive no credit. If an assignment has been copied from another student, this will also apply to the person who “lent” the work to the student. All work required for this class is to be done by the student.
• Homework is to be turned in at the beginning of class. Any work not turned in at the proper time is considered late. Work turned in after the deadline will receive half credit, with a full grade mark-down each day after the deadline.
• Please keep all of your graded work until the end of the trimester. If there is an error in a grade, the work will be used to help make the correction.
• No food, pagers, phones, hats, electronics, (iPods, MP3 players, etc.) are allowed in class.
• Any students seen doing work from another class will have that work confiscated and will receive a zero on the English assignment for the day.
• It is expected that all students will treat each other with respect, especially during class discussions. Anyone who shows disrespect to either the teacher or any classmate, either verbally or through physical gestures, will be asked to leave and must resolve the matter with school administration. There will not be any rude, hurtful, harmful comments, nor any swearing, crude language, or anything inappropriate in the classroom.
• Students are allowed to use the hall pass three times a trimester.
• Any student who does not maintain a B- (80%) average will be removed from the Honors program at the end of the trimester.
If you have any problems or concerns, please contact me. I am available before and after school Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Please feel free to email me at Karen.Larson@canyonsdistrict.org or call at (801) 826-5800.
Student Materials: Students are required to have a steno pad that is brought to class each day for journal writing. Another requirement is submitting a “marked” book. The book must start clean at the beginning of the unit. Therefore, each student will need to purchase the required reading book (The Great Gatsby). The cost for this book will be $_____________ and will be paid at the main office by ____________.
Grading Policy
In this class, grades are earned by the student, not given by the teacher. Grades are based on in-class work, assignments and homework, quizzes and tests, projects and preparation. Grades are based on the following scale:
94-100% A 83-80% B- 67-69% D+
93-90 A- 79-77 C+ 66-64 D
89-87 B+ 76-74 C 63-69 D-
86-84 B 73-70 C- 59 and below F
50% Assignments 30% Writing 20% In-Class Work
Students and parents can monitor grades and attendance by checking Skyward. Any student who discovers an error on his/her grade when viewing Skyward should speak with me. Mid-term grades will be issued to each student and progress and attendance notices will be sent throughout the trimester as needed.
For questions concerning plagiarism, please see the attached English Department Policy.
Attendance Policy and Make-Up Work
This class follows Brighton High’s attendance policy. As per Brighton High School’s attendance policy, failure to attend class may result in a loss of credit for this course.
After an absence, it is the student’s responsibility to obtain make-up work. All make-up work, including tests and quizzes, must be completed within five days of the absence. Tests and quizzes may need to be made up before or after school.
Occasionally, I will have students in the class correct the work of other students. I will also hang students’ work (poems, projects, etc.) in the classroom. Students will also peer edit each other’s papers. This practice has an important educational purpose in that it allows students to review assignments and consider opinions that may be different than their own.
Videos and Internet
Your signature of the disclosure statement also indicates that you are allowing your student to watch a few PG or PG-13 rated videos in class. If your student does not wish to watch a film, the student will need to make alternate arrangements with me before the class views the film.
At least once during each trimester, there will be Internet work. Parent signature on this form indicates that the student has parental permission to use the Internet in class on classroom assignments.
Please return this portion to the teacher. The signature indicates that you have carefully read the disclosure and are aware of the classroom procedures and policies and realize the resulting consequences. It also gives parental release for your student to view movies and use the Internet.
_____________________________________________________ _____________
Student name—PLEASE PRINT Period
_____________________________________________________ ______________
Parent/guardian signature Date
____________________________________________________
Student signature
Parent/Guardian Contact Information:
Father: Home Phone: Cell: Work:
Email:
Mother: Home Phone: Cell: Work:
Email:
Guardian: Home Phone: Cell: Work:
Email:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Transcendentalism and "Nature"
Name________________________________Date___________________Period________________
Transcendentalism and “Nature”
With your group, research and create a definition of American transcendentalism. With this definition in mind, read the excerpt from “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. With your group, find four examples of how American transcendentalism helped form Emerson’s views. In the columns below, write the example (include paragraph numbers) and explain what this concrete detail reveals about transcendentalism.
Column One Column Two
Example (CD, including paragraph number) What does this reveal about
transcendentalism?
Transcendentalism and “Nature”
With your group, research and create a definition of American transcendentalism. With this definition in mind, read the excerpt from “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. With your group, find four examples of how American transcendentalism helped form Emerson’s views. In the columns below, write the example (include paragraph numbers) and explain what this concrete detail reveals about transcendentalism.
Column One Column Two
Example (CD, including paragraph number) What does this reveal about
transcendentalism?
"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, -- master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.
Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, -- master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.
Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
"Nature" Assignment
Read "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (post just before this one). Fold a piece of lined paper (like a hot dog bun) and title the left column "text." Find five phrases or quotes from "Nature" and write them in this column. Remember to include page numbers. In the right hand column, title it "response." In this column you will write your interpretation of the phrases from the "text" column. Be sure to make a personal connection.
"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, -- master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.
Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet. The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, -- master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.
Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Huck Finn: My Access Essay
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
MyAccess Final Essay
Write the essay on www.myaccess.com. Your user name is your first name (as it appears on Skyward) with your student ID #, no space in between. Example: JONATHAN1234567. Your password is your last name preceded by 999. Example: 999SMITH.
Your essay submission must be accepted by MyAccess in order to receive a grade. (Hint: If My Access will not accept the submission, you probably have not written enough sentences in each paragraph.) Remember that My Access due dates are firm; absences do not excuse you from submitting the essay by the due date.
Try to get at least a 5 score on each writing trait. If you achieve at least a 5 score on EACH & EVERY writing trait, you do not have to make another submission; that score will be entered on each submission, unless you wish to make more submissions. A 5 on each trait is not a perfect score.
If you do not achieve at least a 5 or above, you must make at least one more submission, and your score MUST improve in order for it to be accepted.
If your second submission does not receive at least a 5 on EACH AND EVERY writing trait, you must make at least one more submission, and your score MUST improve in order for it to be accepted.
Truth and Lies
“Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.” --Sophocles
Is it always necessary to tell the truth, regardless of the consequences, or are there times when it is permissible to tell a lie? What “rule” should guide a person in determining when to tell the truth or to tell a lie?
Write a multi-paragraph essay in which you articulate your position on this issue. Be sure to support your position with relevant examples and arguments from literature, history (including politics) and personal events.
1st paragraph: opening paragraph, introducing your topic and your thesis
statement.
2nd paragraph: support your thesis with an example from Huckleberry Finn.
3rd paragraph: support your thesis with an example from history or politics
4th paragraph: support your thesis with a personal example or event
5th paragraph: concluding paragraph
As you write, remember your essay will be scored based on how well you:
• Develop a multi-paragraph response to the assigned topic that clearly
communicates your thesis to the audience.
• Support your thesis with meaningful reasons and sufficient details.
• Address the readers’ concerns, opposing viewpoints, or counterarguments.
• Organize your essay in a clear and logical manner, including an
introduction, body, and conclusion
• Use well-structured sentences and language that are appropriate for your
audience.
• Edit your work to conform to the conventions of standard American English.
MyAccess Final Essay
Write the essay on www.myaccess.com. Your user name is your first name (as it appears on Skyward) with your student ID #, no space in between. Example: JONATHAN1234567. Your password is your last name preceded by 999. Example: 999SMITH.
Your essay submission must be accepted by MyAccess in order to receive a grade. (Hint: If My Access will not accept the submission, you probably have not written enough sentences in each paragraph.) Remember that My Access due dates are firm; absences do not excuse you from submitting the essay by the due date.
Try to get at least a 5 score on each writing trait. If you achieve at least a 5 score on EACH & EVERY writing trait, you do not have to make another submission; that score will be entered on each submission, unless you wish to make more submissions. A 5 on each trait is not a perfect score.
If you do not achieve at least a 5 or above, you must make at least one more submission, and your score MUST improve in order for it to be accepted.
If your second submission does not receive at least a 5 on EACH AND EVERY writing trait, you must make at least one more submission, and your score MUST improve in order for it to be accepted.
Truth and Lies
“Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.” --Sophocles
Is it always necessary to tell the truth, regardless of the consequences, or are there times when it is permissible to tell a lie? What “rule” should guide a person in determining when to tell the truth or to tell a lie?
Write a multi-paragraph essay in which you articulate your position on this issue. Be sure to support your position with relevant examples and arguments from literature, history (including politics) and personal events.
1st paragraph: opening paragraph, introducing your topic and your thesis
statement.
2nd paragraph: support your thesis with an example from Huckleberry Finn.
3rd paragraph: support your thesis with an example from history or politics
4th paragraph: support your thesis with a personal example or event
5th paragraph: concluding paragraph
As you write, remember your essay will be scored based on how well you:
• Develop a multi-paragraph response to the assigned topic that clearly
communicates your thesis to the audience.
• Support your thesis with meaningful reasons and sufficient details.
• Address the readers’ concerns, opposing viewpoints, or counterarguments.
• Organize your essay in a clear and logical manner, including an
introduction, body, and conclusion
• Use well-structured sentences and language that are appropriate for your
audience.
• Edit your work to conform to the conventions of standard American English.
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