Working on Transcendentalism Essay

 

TRANSCENDENTALISM PAPER:  Choose a major theme of Transcendentalism and explain how it is developed in Dead Poet’s Society AND two of the following writings

• Emerson “Nature”
• Emerson “Self-Reliance”
• Thoreau “Walden”
• Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”
• Whitman “The Learn’d Astronomer”

 

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR YOU TO SHOW US IN THIS PAPER

1. That you understand elements of transcendentalism and show how it applies and connects to the world outside of the texts we read.
2. That you can identify a theme and support it with evidence from multiple texts.
3. That you can organize and express your thoughts in essay format.

 

FORMAT: 

• Typed, using MLA Format (12-point font, 1-inch margins, MLA page headers)
  • Include MLA works-cited page

 

• DEADLINES:
  • Draft due for peer editing:  Start of class 10/31
  • First Draft Due to C.E. Oct. 31 (Turn in to classroom)
  • Final Draft Due:  NOVE7  (Printed Hard Copy)