1. Pick up the directions for the “American Dream Collage” from the front table. We will begin with this after we read for 10 minutes. Today’s Agenda: 1.Your Goals and the Path Ahead: The American Dream Collage HMWK: Begin planning and creating your American Dream Collage! DUE Thursday, January 15 th. 5 JANUARY 2015

2. Take out your Alternative Reading Materials (ARMs). After we are done reading, we will follow the agenda for today. Make sure you are ready to take some notes and seek the inner truths of the cosmos! Just like Spongebob! Today’s Agenda: 1.Mr. Ingham’s American Dream Collage Example 2.Transcendentalist Essentials and Spongebob Squarepants 3.Self-Awareness Survey (the Activator for Transcendentalism) HMWK: Begin planning and creating your American Dream Collage! DUE Thursday, January 15 th. 6 JANUARY 2015

3. After we read for 10 minutes, we will continue to free our minds from the perceptions of those around us and become our truest selves! Today’s Agenda: 1.Complete Self-Awareness Survey (the Activator for Transcendentalism) 2.Transcendentalist Notes and Quotes HMWK: Begin planning and creating your American Dream Collage! DUE Thursday, January 15 th. 7 JANUARY 2015

4. When we are done reading, we will again watch Spongebob Squarepants and determine the extent of his Transcendental experience! Today’s Agenda: 1.Complete Transcendentalist Notes and Quotes 2.Re-watch Spongebob: A Quiz on Transcendentalism! HMWK: Begin planning and creating your American Dream Collage! DUE Thursday, January 15 th. 8 JANUARY 2015

5. Acquire your assigned laptop and login. We will be reading today, and after we do so, we will follow the agenda to the right of these words. Today’s Agenda: 1.Re-watch Spongebob: A Quiz on Transcendentalism! 2.Time to Work on the American Dream Collage HMWK: Begin planning and creating your American Dream Collage! DUE Thursday, January 15 th. 9 JANUARY 2015

6. As always, we will read. Then, we will examine Emerson’s thoughts regarding “Self- Reliance” and delineate its application in our own lives. Today’s Agenda: 1.“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson 2.Begin reading and annotating “The American Scholar” by Emerson for Monday, 1/12/15 HMWK: Read and annotate “The American Scholar” by Emerson for Monday, 1/12/15 Begin planning and creating your American Dream Collage! DUE Thursday, January 15 th. 9 JANUARY 2015