Thursday 17 October 2013

The Transcendentalists

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance"

Learning Goal: RI2, Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how they develop over the course of the text

Today's Objective: Identify Emerson's theme in "Self-Reliance" and discuss how he expands upon the idea. 

What we will do today: Read the background information of Emerson, read the essay "Self-Reliance", discuss the theme and ways he develops it.  Write on our blogs about the theme and its development.

Finally - take a survey.

 

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