1. Warm-Up Please read and annotate “the tide rises, the Tide falls.”
Complete the paraphrasing activity.
On the back, please skip straight down to the chart.
Identify two romantic characteristics
Use textual evidence to show how you see those in the poem

2. Transcendentalism characteristics
The individual is the most important
Non-conformity is key – follow your own path
Be self-reliant
Believes that man is naturally good
Nature = god
Being alone in nature is the way to creativity and oneness with the universe
Wealth and things are not important
Eliminate stress
Carpe diem

3. Create a venn diagram or t-chart
Compare and contrast the ideas of the romantics and the transcendentals.
What characteristics do they have in common?
What characteristics are different?

4. Transcendental writers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Read, annotate, and respond to the two poems.
Tomorrow, we will look at their work in more detail.