Before Bell:

Staple your rough draft and works cited page together. Have your timeline out on your desk.

• Vocab Unit 3 Choosing the Right Word

Warm Up:

Answers1. Abominated2. Tenuous3. Nominal4. Ascribing5. Inadvertent6. Sangfroid7. Proclivity8. Sedition9. Peculation10. Vitriolic11. Adventitious12. Acculturation

13. Vitriolic14. Commiseration15. Tenuous16. Abominated17. Sangfroid18. Circuitous19. Ferment20. Expedite21. Wheedle22. Enjoined23. Expiate24. Noncommittal25. Circuitous

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What is Romanticism?

Where did it take historical influences from?

What is special about Fireside Poets?

What figurative language is found in their poems?

Review of Romanticism

Key Ideas of Transcendentalism

• Emphasized living the simple life

• Stressed a close relationship to nature (We Find Truth here!)

• Celebrated emotions and the imagination

• Stressed individualism and self-reliance (Non-Conformist)

• God is present in everything

Transcendental Webquest• You will work with a partner to

complete the steps of the transcendental webquest

• Utilize Chromebooks and search the web for your answers

Modern Day Transcendentalists1. Virginia Wolf2. Sylvia Plath3. Madonna4. Bob Dylan5. John Lennon6. Van Gogh7. Gandhi8. James Dean9. Kurt Cobain10.Abraham Lincoln11.Nelson Mandela12.MLK Jr.13.Rosa Parks

14. Stalin15.Albert Einstein16.Socrates17.Bill Gates18.Henry David Thoreau19.William Wallace20.Galileo21.Karl Marx22.Picasso23.Andy Warhol24.Malcolm X25.Johnny Depp26.Benjamin Franklin

Closure:1.What are your findings?

2. What connections can you make in todays world to transcendental thought?

3. HW: Bring in a piece of nature for Wednesday’s class

POP QUIZ: Fireside Poets and Romanticism Intro!

• Use your book p. 344 to answer question 13-20

• Turn your quiz into the back tray when you finish

• After quiz open books to p. 311 read about transcendentalist find 5 interesting facts to share about them on a sheet of paper!