Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Emerson

 
11/30 - Emerson - "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" (page 369)  

 see - Shmoop: https://www.shmoop.com/american-romanticism/
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance"

Learning Goal: RI2, Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how they develop over the course of the text

Today's Objective: Identify Emerson's theme in "Self-Reliance" and discuss how he expands upon the idea. 

What we will do today: Read the background information of Emerson, read the essay "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" discuss a theme in each and ways he develops it.


On page 375 answer questions 1, 4, 5 and 6.

 

https://waldrep.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/8/8/16887134/11_emerson_self-reliance_and_nature.pdf

 


 
Review for Test on Romanticism
1 – Be able to discuss with examples how Emerson (Nature and Self-Reliance)  and Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience fit the ideas of Transcendentalism.  You will need to be able to pick out  a theme for each essay and use specific examples.

 

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