Warmup VOCAB:

• If you wanted to ALIENATE your friend, what could you do?
• What type of professional would attend a CULINARY school?
• What is something that has a NEGLIGIBLE impact on your life?
• Who is the most URBANE celebrity you can think of?

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of today you should be able to

1. Define Transcendentalism in your own words.
2. Be able to explain who RALPH WALDO EMERSON was.
3. Be able to explain how Walt Whitman’s poem The Learn’d Astronomer reflects the ideas of Transcendentalism.