PPT-Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman

American Transcendentalists 18031882 from Boston MA Essayist Lecturer Poet Nicknamed The Concord Sage Led the TRANSCENDENTAL movement Was a champion of INDIVIDUALITY and spread his religious and social beliefs via his writing and lectures. You have all studied The Civil War in history classes. Take a minute with your VERTICAL partner to discuss the following:. What effect did The Civil War have on our country as a whole?. What effect do you think it might have on literature in our country?. Secondary English Language Arts. Day 2. July 31. st. to Aug 3. rd. , 2012. Facilitated by . Heidi Beeman. Objectives. By the end of . this . institute, participants . will: . R. eview . the . CCSS, its appendices, skills and understandings. Evidence. of Hindu and . Buddhist. Thought in the works of H.D. Thoreau. Elizabeth Thompson. Framingham High School. 2011. Transcendentalism. C. irca 1830 Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were at the forefront of the creation Transcendentalism, a spiritual, political, and intellectual . Self-Reliance . to . Civil Disobedience: . Guerilla Transcendentalist Projects. Aerie Treska. English Department. Roland Park Country School. Baltimore, MD . First, some context….. AP English 11. American Literature focus. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. . Crafting the American Ideal . and. Thesis . In his poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Walt Whitman expresses his idealistic view of American patriotism and spirit through his symbolism of the lilac, star, and bird, and his celebration of Abraham Lincoln and the soldiers of the Civil War. . *Turn in any late work!. *Take out your Nature worksheets from yesterday, your piece of nature from HW, and your vocabulary Book! . *What words come to mind about your piece of nature? How would you describe it? How does it make you feel?. “John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California’s Mt. Ritter. In another essay Muir rapturously describes riding out a ferocious Sierra gale, by choice, in the uppermost branches of a on-hundred-foot Douglas fir…” (. Celebration of primeval American landscape. America as a garden-set aside by God. Unspoiled nature and expressions of the Divine. Lack of narrative detail. Limitless potential of unspoiled landscape. Poe, Irvin, Hawthorn, Emerson, . Thoreau. , Whitman, etc... Romanticism. A literary movement originally “invented” by European writers that was then adopted and popularized by American writers in the early 1800s. Self Reflections. Pick up the sheet provided and prepare to move outside for class.. Using the questions provided, generate responses in your ISN.. After 10-20 minutes, share your ideas with a group of at least 2 peers.. Henry David Thoreau. DO NOW:. List . 3 things. in your life that you do ‘. deliberately. ’.. Henry David Thoreau. 1817-1862. Schoolteacher, essayist, poet. Most famous for . Walden . (pg 204). . Civil Disobedience. Quote: . By Henry Thoreau. . Meaning . - Choice is freedom, even if the choice is to disobey. Obeying all orders, even when unjust, is being a slave.. Henry Thoreau coined the term “. and try to figure out what the term “transcendentalism” might mean.. With a partner, make . a . list on your board: . What . does a person have to . believe. in order to be a transcendentalist? . Justin Waters. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. .. History . Born May 31, 1819 in Long Island.. Second of nine children.. Served as publisher, editor, pressman, and .