LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of today’s lesson you should be able to

• Explain in your own words these two things
  • How Walt Whitman’s poem “The Learn’d Astronomer” is similar thematically to Emerson’s essay “Nature.”
  • How both can be seen as examples of Transcendentalist thought.

 

IN CLASS TODAY

1. Practice Vocab Quiz (and quick check of worksheets)
2. Presentations (2)
3. Debrief on 5 questions from yesterday
4. Comparison of Learn’d Astronomer with Nature.