Instructions:
In 2 pages, define the term Transcendentalism using evidence from your weeks readings and the documentaries provided. Responses should consider metaphysical beliefs and perspectives as well as how Transcendentalism defines the life well-lived. Responses should utilize evidence from two different essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, two different works by Henry David Thoreau, and one of our videos assigned for this unit
Instructional Materials:
Read the following from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Edition, Vol. 1:
Ralph Waldo Emersons (500-503) Nature (503-532), The American Scholar (532-545), and Self-Reliance (546-563).
Henry David Thoreaus (879-882) Resistance to Civil Government (882-897) and selections from Walden (899-969)
Videos:
The 54-minute documentary The American Transcendentalists.
The 54-minute documentary Emerson: The Ideal in America.
The 45-minute documentary In Search of Thoreau.
