1. Pick up a copy of the ACT practice test. It is a full length version of the English section. Ms. B will discuss how this is to be completed and when it will be due! Today’s Agenda: 1.Full Length ACT English – What to do and how it should be done! 2.Questions about the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge 3.Review Transcendentalism through YOUR Experiences 4.Tomorrow’s TEST!!! What do you need to do to be fully prepared? HMWK: Find time for the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge… if you can stomach it! You have until 2/23/15! Make sure you are prepared for a brief TEST on Transcendentalism! You will need to use all of the readings to pass it, which ALL of your should be able to do! 26 JANUARY 2015

2. Unpacking the Experience: 1.) What did this experience do for you? Was it worth the time? 2.) What troubles/issues did you encounter? How did you react to them? 3.) How did this affect those you commonly walk with? 4.) How should this idea be changed for future classes? 26 JANUARY 2015 Today’s Agenda: 1.Full Length ACT English – What to do and how it should be done! 2.Questions about the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge 3.Review Transcendentalism through YOUR Experiences 4.Tomorrow’s TEST!!! What do you need to do to be fully prepared? HMWK: Find time for the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge… if you can stomach it! You have until 2/23/15! Make sure you are prepared for a brief TEST on Transcendentalism! You will need to use all of the readings to pass it, which ALL of your should be able to do!

3. Transcendental Tenets: View of Man – View of Nature – Guide to Truth – Today’s Agenda: 1.Full Length ACT English – What to do and how it should be done! 2.Questions about the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge 3.Review Transcendentalism through YOUR Experiences 4.Tomorrow’s TEST!!! What do you need to do to be fully prepared? HMWK: Find time for the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge… if you can stomach it! You have until 2/23/15! Make sure you are prepared for a brief TEST on Transcendentalism! You will need to use all of the readings to pass it, which ALL of your should be able to do! 26 JANUARY 2015

4. What we have read:  “The American Scholar” by Ralph Waldo Emerson  From “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson  Chapter 2 of Walden: “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” by Henry David Thoreau  From “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau Today’s Agenda: 1.Full Length ACT English – What to do and how it should be done! 2.Questions about the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge 3.Review Transcendentalism through YOUR Experiences 4.Tomorrow’s TEST!!! What do you need to do to be fully prepared? HMWK: Find time for the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge… if you can stomach it! You have until 2/23/15! Make sure you are prepared for a brief TEST on Transcendentalism! You will need to use all of the readings to pass it, which ALL of your should be able to do! 26 JANUARY 2015

5. You should have the following items ready to go, for your will need them on the test:  Both of the readings you were required to annotate for class;  The textbook from beneath your chair opened to pages ;  A pen, not a pencil, to write your responses with for this test;  Your mind, packed with transcendent thoughts and ideas. Today’s Agenda: 1.Test on Transcendentalism! 2.Time to Read (10 Minutes to Silently Read A.R.M.) HMWK: Find time for the Transcendental Sequestration Challenge… if you can stomach it! You have until 2/23/15! 27 JANUARY 2015