Transcendentalist
Thinker/Text
Elements of
Transcendentalism
Quotation/reference from text that best exhibits
transcendentalist thought
Write a thematic statement about this
excerpt
From “Self
Reliance” by
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
From “Civil
Disobedience” by
Thoreau
From Nature:
“Where I lived”
From Nature: “the
conclusion”
Using summative assessment strategies, write a paragraph response (scored 1-4) on the following prompt: Choose one of the essays we discussed on
Monday/Tuesday & analyze/discuss how the essay is a Transcendentalist piece of literature. You must use textual evidence to support your analysis.