LEARNING TARGET: Be able to summarize, in your own words, the meaning of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “NATURE” (or at least the excerpt we read in class).

IN CLASS:

1. If we didn’t get to it yesterday in your class:  I gave this lecture  The Beginnings of an American Culture
   1. NOTE: the purpose of this  lecture is more background for understanding the context of the Transcendentalists.  Not anything where you have to memorize details.  Some of this will pop up on your SECOND SEMESTER EXAM.
2. We read (close reading) and analyzed a selection from Emerson’s “NATURE”.

 

 

 

 

 

Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that revered nature and stressed that truth goes beyond what we can experience with our senses. Intuition is key.