1. Warming up by finalizing your recent blog posts and leaving comments to your blogging buddies
- What transcendentalist concepts are you seeing that are relevant to you?
- What's being transcended, and how?
- What overall transcendentalist patterns are you noticing?
2. Exploring modern transcendentalist communities (some are actual places; some are cyber spaces)
- What are the goals of each community?
- Which transcendentalist concepts (self-reliance, strong connection to nature, living deliberately, redefining "essential," and civil disobedience) are celebrated in these communities?
- Do any of these communities appeal to any part of you? Why or why not?
3. Discussing transcendentalist concepts in grid groups OR designing your own transcendentalist utopia
Grid group option: Create six questions (Level 2 and/or 3) that provoke thoughtful discussion of transcendentalist concepts. Discuss and jot down notes, grid-group style. Click HERE for the grid.
Design your own transcendental utopia option: With your group, create an illustration/map of a transcendental community of your design. Include your mission, your core (transcendental) values, and some details about how your society works.
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus-creating for tomorrow. Remember that your book must be finished by tomorrow.
2. Work on your final speech by writing/outlining, preparing your media, and practicing every night. Be ready to deliver it on Friday, Dec 16. Do not be absent this day.
3. If you've been absent or behind, take some time to update your Transcendentalist blog posts. I will start grading them after school on Thursday, Dec 15.
2. Work on your final speech by writing/outlining, preparing your media, and practicing every night. Be ready to deliver it on Friday, Dec 16. Do not be absent this day.
3. If you've been absent or behind, take some time to update your Transcendentalist blog posts. I will start grading them after school on Thursday, Dec 15.
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