1. Warm-uP: Unit 3 Questions discussion
All you need is your handout with the unit 3 questions which you received yesterday.
When time starts, you will choose one station around the room that corresponds with a question you answered.
You will have 2 minutes to discuss the question with peers at that station, then you will rotate.
Please be sure you discuss all 6 questions you chose!

2. Word Sort Work with your group to sort the words in the bag.
You may group them in any way that makes sense to you.
Discuss your groupings and what big ideas/themes they may represent.

3. Thinking about unit 3… Discuss the TED talk questions from yesterday.
What are some main ideas/themes that we will focus on in unit 3?

4. American romanticism
Romanticism was a response to the industrial revolution and scientific advancement.
Romantics valued feeling, imagination, and common sense over reason and logic.
Romantics valued poetry above all other works of the imagination.
They contrasted poetry with science, which they viewed as a destroyer of truth.
Tried to reflect on the natural world in order to see truth and beauty.

5. Characteristics of romanticism
Values feeling over reason
Places faith in the imagination
Shuns civilization and seeks nature
Prefers innocence to sophistication
Fights for individual’s freedom and worth
Trusts past wisdom, not progress
Reflects on nature to gain spiritual wisdom
Finds beauty and truth in supernatural or imaginative realms.
Sees poetry at the highest work of the imagination
Is inspired by myth, legend, and folklore.

7. The 5 Is of Romanticism Idealism Imagination Individuality Inspiration
Intuition

8. Famous romantic poets Henry wadsworth Longfellow (“The Rainy Day”)
Emily Dickinson (“Hope is the thing with feathers”)
Walt Whitman (“O Captain, my captain!”)
Edgar allan poe (“The raven”)

9. For Homework
Please finish the chart.