Emerson

Today - we are going to hear your themes and summaries of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience".

Then we will move onto Emerson

see - Shmoop: https://www.shmoop.com/american-romanticism/
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.


On page 375 answer questions 1, 4, 5 and 6.