1. Before Bell : Staple your rough draft and works cited page together. Have your timeline out on your desk.

2. Vocab Unit 3 Choosing the Right Word Warm Up:

3. Answers 1.Abominated 2.Tenuous 3.Nominal 4.Ascribing 5.Inadvertent 6.Sangfroid 7.Proclivity 8.Sedition 9.Peculation 10. Vitriolic 11. Adventitious 12. Acculturation 13. Vitriolic 14. Commiseration 15. Tenuous 16. Abominated 17. Sangfroid 18. Circuitous 19. Ferment 20. Expedite 21. Wheedle 22. Enjoined 23. Expiate 24. Noncommittal 25. Circuitous

4. http://youtu.be/RIXkVPHwN1E What is Romanticism? Where did it take historical influences from? What is special about Fireside Poets? What figurative language is found in their poems? Review of Romanticism

5. Key Ideas of Transcendentalism Emphasized living the simple life Stressed a close relationship to nature (We Find Truth here!) Celebrated emotions and the imagination Stressed individualism and self-reliance (Non- Conformist) God is present in everything

6. Transcendental Webquest You will work with a partner to complete the steps of the transcendental webquest Utilize Chromebooks and search the web for your answers

7. Modern Day Transcendentalists 1.Virginia Wolf 2.Sylvia Plath 3.Madonna 4.Bob Dylan 5.John Lennon 6.Van Gogh 7.Gandhi 8.James Dean 9.Kurt Cobain 10.Abraham Lincoln 11.Nelson Mandela 12.MLK Jr. 13.Rosa Parks 14. Stalin 15.Albert Einstein 16.Socrates 17.Bill Gates 18.Henry David Thoreau 19.William Wallace 20.Galileo 21.Karl Marx 22.Picasso 23.Andy Warhol 24.Malcolm X 25.Johnny Depp 26.Benjamin Franklin

8. Closure: 1.What are your findings? 2. What connections can you make in todays world to transcendental thought? 3. HW: Bring in a piece of nature for Wednesday’s class

9. POP QUIZ: Fireside Poets and Romanticism Intro! Use your book p. 344 to answer question 13-20 Turn your quiz into the back tray when you finish After quiz open books to p. 311 read about transcendentalist find 5 interesting facts to share about them on a sheet of paper!