1. Wednesday, Sept. 16th Please sit in your REGULARLY ASSIGNED SEATS.
As groups present, have out your “Project sheets” to follow along with their questions and answers.
You do NOT need to record their answers on your sheet; however, you MUST be attentive. Group members who talk during other’s presentations will have 50% taken from their group’s overall grade.
Be respectful. Be ready to present! 

2. Transcendentalism

3. What does “Transcendentalism” mean?
Analyze the word “transcend” – what do you think this means?

4. What does “Transcendentalism” mean?
Transcend – To go beyond the limits of something.
*Add to your vocabulary. 
Transcendentalist thinkers -- They held the view that the basic truths of the universe transcend (lie beyond) empirical knowledge (empirical: knowledge we obtain through our senses.)
Began in the mid-1800s.

5. What did the Transcendentalists Value?
EMPHASIZED
OVER
Imagination
Reason
Intuition
Logic
Spontaneity
Planning
Nature
Civilization
High Truths
Reality/ Science
Individual
Society
YES!! 
NO!! 

6. Major Themes of Transcendentalist Literature:
Self-Reliance/ Intuition
Importance of Nature
Free Thought and Expression
The Individual is Important/ Nonconformity
Confidence

7. Who were the Transcendentalists?
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
MARGARET FULLER
We will also be focusing on J.D. Salinger although many would not view him as a transcendentalist.

8. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Unitarian minister Poet and essayist
Founded the Transcendental Club
Popular lecturer
Banned from Harvard for 40 years following his Divinity School address
Supporter of abolitionism

9. Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Schoolteacher, essayist, poet
Most famous for Walden and Civil Disobedience
Influenced environmental movement
Supporter of abolitionism

10. Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Journalist, critic, women’s rights activist
First editor of The Dial, a transcendental journal
First female journalist to work on a major newspaper—The New York Tribune
Taught at Alcott’s Temple School

11. What does society expect of us
What does society expect of us?  Does society still have different expectations for men and women?  Take a look at the following jobs and determine which you think are mostly held by men, women or equally by both.  
Kindergarten Teacher
Accountant
Carpenter
Lawyer
Hairstylist
Nurse
Surgeon
Truck Driver
Firefighter
Chef
College Professor
Journalist
Personal Shopper
Realtor
Architect
Restaurant Server

12. Nature provides exceptions to every rule

13. Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

14. I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own

15. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as for the body

16. Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow

17. It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods

18. The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

19. I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

20. In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone

21. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain

22. Nature is the literature and art of the divine mind.