Transcendentalist Unit Projects

Everything for the Transcendentalist Unit is due at the end of class tomorrow! Remember to finish your Transcendentalist Project (below), Chart, Walden Packet, Instructional Book Page, and Research Paper Revisions. All of these assignments can be found on this blogpost.

Transcendentalist Project!

Instructions after the jump!

Create a Transcendentalist Playlist!

·Choose at least one song that specifically relates to each Transcendentalist ideal.

·Write a paragraph (6-8 sentences) of “liner notes” for how each song represents the Transcendentalist ideals. (Total of 6 PARAGRAPHS)

· Be prepared to share with a group to create an entire Transcendentalist CD.

Ideals:

• Non-Conformity
• Self-Reliance
• Free Thought
• Confidence
• Importance of Nature
• Spiritual is greater than Material

HONORS ONLY! Standard EXTRA CREDIT! Create a Picture of Transcendentalism!

·Choose two lines of text from one or more texts that embrace Transcendentalism. The lines can be from one of the texts we have read or from other texts that embrace Transcendentalist ideals. For example,

Ø“Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding

Ø“Hero” Mariah Carey

Ø“Blowin’ in the Wind” Bob Dylan

Ø“Clouds” Janet Jackson

Ø“Real Live Woman” Trisha Yearwood

Øpoems by Walt Whitman

Øpoems by Gerry Spence

Øpoems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

ØSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson

ØBlue Heron by Avi

Øwritings by John Muir

Øwritings by Annie Dillard

·Find a scene in nature to post your writing. Use a camera/camera phone to take an artistic picture of the words. Do this for each quote.
Email your picture to me and I will the winning cover printed. elizabethheck@ccs.k12.nc.us

·In your album groups, you will choose one of your photographs to be used as the album cover.

For example,

Philip Larkin Poem

Shel Silverstein Poem