Introduction to Transcendentalism

Transcendentalists rejected ________ and instead valued ________.

• spiritualism; materialism

• individuality; conformity

• conformity; individuality

• materialism; spiritualism

Do you agree with the transcendentalists that beauty, truth, and spirituality are the most important values in life? Or do you think materialism, conformity, etc. are more/also important? Why?

Match the characteristic to the correct movement:

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(a) Romanticism

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(b) Transcendentalism

• Appealed to Edgar Allen Poe

• Thought you should resist all authority.

• Focus on the Divine

• Believed people are inherently good.

• Appealed to Emily Dickinson

• Believed people had a dark side.

• Thought you should follow your inner voice.

• Focus on Nature

Which of these key figures is most interesting/intriguing to you?

Amos Bronson Alcott - educator, innovator of plant-based diet

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - founded first English speaking kindergarten, owned a bookstore, publisher

Margaret Fuller - founded Women's Rights Movement, 1st female war correspondent, wrote a book

Walt Whitman - journalist & essayist, innovative poet

Emily Dickinson - innovative poet, never left home, works published after her death

Henry David Thoreau - poet, essayist, naturalist, lived in a cabin by a pond, wrote Civil Disobedience

Ralph Waldo Emerson - poet, lecturer, essayist, philosopher, founding father of Transcendentalism, wrote Self Reliance

Why did you choose this figure? What else would you like to learn about them?

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What career did Ralph Waldo Emerson almost pursue?

• Teacher

• Minister

• Sailor

• Carpenter

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What club did Emerson start?

• The Nature Poets

• The Spiritual Naturalists

• The Transcendental Club

• Votes for Women

Ralph Waldo Emerson supported ​ (a)   , ​ (b)   ​, and (c)   .

• women's rights
• the anti-slavery movement
• rights for Native Americans
• ending child labor
• starting a new church
• making healthcare free for all
• higher taxes for millionaires

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