Watch the following video and then answer the three questions:
Please list 3 things that you think Transcendentalism will be about:
1.
2.
3.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Part 2: I is the new Trend
Watch the following video and answer the 4 questions:
Define each of the following key terms for Transcendentalism and then make a correct sentence using each one:
(1)intuition, (2)individuality, and (3)integrity
1. A. Definition
B. Sentence
2. A. Definition
B. Sentence
3. A. Definition
B. Sentence
4. This rapper says, "In the end, you wanna be your own trend." What do you think that means?
Define each of the following key terms for Transcendentalism and then make a correct sentence using each one:
(1)intuition, (2)individuality, and (3)integrity
1. A. Definition
B. Sentence
2. A. Definition
B. Sentence
3. A. Definition
B. Sentence
4. This rapper says, "In the end, you wanna be your own trend." What do you think that means?
Part 3: Transcending
Watch the following video, read the song lyrics, and then answer the 2 questions:
(Written by Ryan Wisniewski and Phil Maeder):
Don't think of me as Emerson or Henry D. Thoreau,
The mind and earth my temple, to nature I must go.
Let divinity of soul be my only guide,
From this awful sad society, now I must go and hide.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
I'm like Emile Hirsch from "Into the Wild",
Born and raised at Walden Pond, I am an only child.
The part will always outweigh the sum,
Transcendentalism will always be number 1.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
Civil disobedience is what I've come to preach,
Love for the individual a message I did teach.
If with my strict ideology, your viewpoints just don't agree,
Then live in homes, I'll be alone; transcendentalism's the life for me.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
1. The song makes a funny play on the word "dental" by pointing out that "transcendental" doesn't have anything to do with an office visit to get one's teeth cleaned. So if that's not what it means, what in the world does "transcend" mean after all? Define the word, and use it in a sentence:
A. Definition
B. Sentence using the word correctly
2. What did the Transcendentalists believe in and what did they believe it "transcended?" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism)
(Written by Ryan Wisniewski and Phil Maeder):
Don't think of me as Emerson or Henry D. Thoreau,
The mind and earth my temple, to nature I must go.
Let divinity of soul be my only guide,
From this awful sad society, now I must go and hide.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
I'm like Emile Hirsch from "Into the Wild",
Born and raised at Walden Pond, I am an only child.
The part will always outweigh the sum,
Transcendentalism will always be number 1.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
Civil disobedience is what I've come to preach,
Love for the individual a message I did teach.
If with my strict ideology, your viewpoints just don't agree,
Then live in homes, I'll be alone; transcendentalism's the life for me.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
TranscenDental, won't offer root canals.
TranscenDental, won't ever touch those mouths.
1. The song makes a funny play on the word "dental" by pointing out that "transcendental" doesn't have anything to do with an office visit to get one's teeth cleaned. So if that's not what it means, what in the world does "transcend" mean after all? Define the word, and use it in a sentence:
A. Definition
B. Sentence using the word correctly
2. What did the Transcendentalists believe in and what did they believe it "transcended?" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism)
Monday, January 24, 2011
Part 4: Nature
Watch the following video and then answer the first question. Then look at the picture below and answer the second question.
1. What are the four main themes of the "Over-soul?" Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-soul (3rd paragraph)
A.
B.
C.
D.
2. Write a 5-7 sentence paragraph in which you describe a time that you learned something important from nature.
1. What are the four main themes of the "Over-soul?" Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-soul (3rd paragraph)
A.
B.
C.
D.
2. Write a 5-7 sentence paragraph in which you describe a time that you learned something important from nature.
Part 5: Self Reliance
Watch the following video:
Then read an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance and answer the 3 questions at the end.
"There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till...
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being...
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,—“But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil’s child, I will live then from the devil.” No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it...
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude...
For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend’s parlor. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause—disguise no god, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs...
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them...
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood! Misunderstood! It is a right fool’s word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
1. What is Emerson's most important theme (main idea)?
2. Give one example that he uses to illustrate his theme.
3. Write a 5-7 sentence paragraph about a time when you had to rely completely on yourself.
Then read an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance and answer the 3 questions at the end.
"There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till...
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being...
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,—“But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil’s child, I will live then from the devil.” No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it...
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude...
For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend’s parlor. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause—disguise no god, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs...
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them...
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood! Misunderstood! It is a right fool’s word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
1. What is Emerson's most important theme (main idea)?
2. Give one example that he uses to illustrate his theme.
3. Write a 5-7 sentence paragraph about a time when you had to rely completely on yourself.
Part 6: Civil Disobedience
Watch the 2 following videos:
Thinking about these videos, read the following excerpt from Civil Disobedience and then answer the 2 questions at the end:
"Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to have this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. It must help itself; do as I do. It is not worth the while to snivel about it. I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
1. If you had to go jail for a cause you believed in, what would that cause be?
2. Why?
Thinking about these videos, read the following excerpt from Civil Disobedience and then answer the 2 questions at the end:
"Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to have this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. It must help itself; do as I do. It is not worth the while to snivel about it. I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
1. If you had to go jail for a cause you believed in, what would that cause be?
2. Why?
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