1. “A Time to Break Silence,” and Transcendental Debate

2. In class essay: Read the prompt- your organized outline will help!!
Incorporate 5 vocabulary words into your essay! You may have your vocab books for this.
Goal: Intro, 2 body paragraphs, conclusion
Look to new rubric (the older one is good too, this one is more appropriate for rhetorical analysis)

3. Debate Stimuli Emerson’s “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”
Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government”
King’s “A Time to Break Silence”
Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle
Extra- research, poem, song lyrics

4. Debatable Topics: Transcendentalism
One should be willing to risk a fine, punishment, or even jail for a moral or political principle.
One’s spiritual well being is more important than one’s financial well being.
One’s imagination is more important than reason and logic.
Society and its institutions corrupt the purity of the individual.
Civil protest is the most effective way to promote change.
It is important to have a close relationship with nature.

5. Group Task:
Find evidence from your stimulus pieces to support both sides of each issue.
Decide: who is your group leader and the person to open your argument?