1. An American Literary, Philosophical, Political Movement
Transcendentalism
An American Literary, Philosophical, Political Movement

2. Your Life? Go to school Graduate high school Go to college Get a job
Get married
Have kids
Retire
Die

3. If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?

4. Here?

5. Here?

6. Here?

7. Here?

8. Do you like coming to school? Why or why not?

9. What is the importance of being an independent thinker?

10. Transcendentalism: Write this down!
TRANSCENDENT. 1. A: exceeding usual limits: surpassing. B: extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience
A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition
Beliefs:
God is present in every aspect of nature
Everyone is capable of connecting with God through the use of intuition
Value of the individual over society
All nature is symbolic of the spirit
Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margret Fuller,
John Muir