Wednesday, Sept. 16th Please sit in your REGULARLY ASSIGNED SEATS. As groups present, have out your “Project sheets” to follow along with their questions and answers. You do NOT need to record their answers on your sheet; however, you MUST be attentive. Group members who talk during other’s presentations will have 50% taken from their group’s overall grade. Be respectful. Be ready to present! 

Transcendentalism

What does “Transcendentalism” mean? Analyze the word “transcend” – what do you think this means?

What does “Transcendentalism” mean? Transcend – To go beyond the limits of something. *Add to your vocabulary.  Transcendentalist thinkers -- They held the view that the basic truths of the universe transcend (lie beyond) empirical knowledge (empirical: knowledge we obtain through our senses.) Began in the mid-1800s.

What did the Transcendentalists Value? EMPHASIZED OVER Imagination Reason Intuition Logic Spontaneity Planning Nature Civilization High Truths Reality/ Science Individual Society YES!!  NO!! 

Major Themes of Transcendentalist Literature: Self-Reliance/ Intuition Importance of Nature Free Thought and Expression The Individual is Important/ Nonconformity Confidence

Who were the Transcendentalists? RALPH WALDO EMERSON HENRY DAVID THOREAU MARGARET FULLER We will also be focusing on J.D. Salinger although many would not view him as a transcendentalist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Unitarian minister Poet and essayist Founded the Transcendental Club Popular lecturer Banned from Harvard for 40 years following his Divinity School address Supporter of abolitionism

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Schoolteacher, essayist, poet Most famous for Walden and Civil Disobedience Influenced environmental movement Supporter of abolitionism

Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Journalist, critic, women’s rights activist First editor of The Dial, a transcendental journal First female journalist to work on a major newspaper—The New York Tribune Taught at Alcott’s Temple School

What does society expect of us What does society expect of us?  Does society still have different expectations for men and women?  Take a look at the following jobs and determine which you think are mostly held by men, women or equally by both.   Kindergarten Teacher Accountant Carpenter Lawyer Hairstylist Nurse Surgeon Truck Driver Firefighter Chef College Professor Journalist Personal Shopper Realtor Architect Restaurant Server

Nature provides exceptions to every rule

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as for the body

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain

Nature is the literature and art of the divine mind.