Learning Targets: By the end of today you should be able to

• Define, in your own words, the basic beliefs of a TRANSCENDENTALIST

In class:

1.  Using writer’s notebook, journaled to this prompt:  Describe a time when you had to choose whether or not to follow the crowd or to blaze your own path?  What was the situation?  Which did you choose?  How did it work out for you?
2. Read this intro to transcendentalism.
3. Time permitting:  I gave this lecture  The Beginnings of an American Culture