Monday - We will be going outside for class today, weather permitting. The students will be handed a worksheet that will make them think deeply about their relationship with nature. After answering their personal questions, they will get into groups and discuss their answers. After that, the students will create their own definition of transcendentalism and what it means to them at this early point in the unit. Explain and handout homework assignment. Go over double-entry journals.
Tuesday/Wednesday - Comparing group transcendentalism definitions to UShistory.org's definition. Read and review "Nature" by Emerson and write double-entry journals. Read an analyze "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman. Students will be asked to write down answers to questions on the poem in their journals. Discuss. HW - Read "Beauty" by Emerson and write down five entries to double-entry journal Thursday - DO NOW - What part of "Beauty" did you connect most with? Explain. Review "Beauty" by Emerson by having students get into groups and share out their double-entry journals. Background on Emerson. Open discussion on the similarities and differences between "Nature" and "Beauty" by Emerson. Friday - Review five tenants of transcendentalism. How to to be a transcendentalist in today's world. Come up with a transcendentalist activity and then find its contemporary counterpart. Begin watching The Dead Poets Society.
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