TUESDAY, 1.6Take a bell ringer and work silently for 4 minutes.

Turn in any completed narratives.

Must have Final Draft & Peer Edit Sheet!!!!

1. When they perform in a play actors must be attentive to lighting signals from other actors and the use of stage props.

2. Charles Spencer Chaplin a famous slapstick comedian spent most of his life in the entertainment business.

3. Mozart learned to play the harpsichord at age four and he completed his first symphony at age eight.

4. The paleontologist exclaimed “These bones are over 200 million years old!”

5. On February 14 1988 I bought my first antique marble. Now I’m an avid collector. Anyone who likes collecting marbles should consider joining the Marble Collectors Society of America. There are about 3000 members. With your membership you get a set of pictures illustrating 380 different marbles a newsletter that tell of auctions and a pricing guide. The Marble Collectors Society has get up good exhibits of marbles at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.; the Corning Glass Museum in Corning New York; and the Museum of Glass in Milleville New Jersey.

AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTAL

ISM “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young

person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism

Romanticism

Anti-Transcendentali

sm(Gothic)

NatureIndividual Subjectivity

EmotionSupernaturalAthmosphere

Romanticism•The name for a school of thought that values feelings and intuition over reason and science. •Opposite of the revolutionary writers and the age of reason

•Frederick Douglass is considered a romantic writer

•It was an artistic, intellectual, literary movement.•Americans were trying to create a new, distinct “American” literature•Remember, America had only been officially a country for a couple of decades.

Romantic Setting/Environment

•American Romantics looked for “exotic” settings in the natural world.

•These natural/exotic environments helped writers escape the dull realities of the rationalists’s grimy, dirty, and noisy cities.

Romantic American Heroes

•As the US grew westward, the frontier life was idealized

•Writers of Romanticism argued that innocent American heroes had virtue, not sophisticated Europeans

•The good things in life were found in the American wilderness, not in cities or libraries.

The 5 “I”s of Romanticism

•Intuition•Imagination•Individualism •Inspiration•Idealism

Transcendentalism• A movement within Romanticism

• The idea that in order to reach God, the universe, or your true self, you must transcend (to go beyond) everyday human experience in the physical world.

• Proposes a belief in a higher reality than that found in sense experience or in a higher kind of knowledge than that achieved by human reason.

• Suggests that every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his/her own, through intuition

• True “reality” was found in ideas, not in the world perceived by the senses.

• A rejection of strict Puritan religious attitudes; they saw humans and natured as possessing an innate goodness.

Born Bad or Good? Puritans Age of Reason Transcendentalists

(Sinful) (Blank Slate) (Good)

Transcendentalism •The influence of romanticism is seen through the celebration of:

•Individualism•The beauty of nature•The virtue of humankind

•Writers expressed semi-religious feelings toward nature•They saw a direct connection between the universe and the individual soul

•Divinity permeated in all objects, animate or inanimate

•The purpose of human life was union with the “Oversoul” – a sort of convergence of the individual, God & Nature. •The groves were God’s first temples” – William Cullen Bryant•“In the faces of men and women I see God.” – Walt Whitman

Transcendental Beliefs

•Intuition, not reason, is the highest human faculty

•A rejection of materialism •Simplicity is the path to spiritual greatness•Nature is a source of truth and inspiration•Non-conformity, individuality, and self-reliance.

RECAP

•Romanticism is NOT about being “in love” its about valuing nature, imagination, optimism, and creativity

•A traditional romantic setting is natural•A romantic hero had virtue, “street smarts,” and honored the frontier

•Transcendentalists believe in being your true self to experience life more deeply

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, when then get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to ‘glorify God and enjoy him forever.’

Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850)• American writer, journalist, and philosopher, was part of the Transcendentalist

circle.

• Margaret Fuller’s “conversations” encouraged the women of Boston to develop their intellectual capacities.

• In 1845 Margaret Fuller published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, now considered an early feminist classic.

• “What woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely, and unimpeded to unfold such powers as were given her when we left our common home.”

• “In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.”

• “I now know all the people worth knowing in American, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”

TUESDAY, 1.13Wait for further instructions on the bell ringer.

Have your homework out on your desk.

1. NO CHANGE

plan, we’ll see if it even works, Thursday

plan – we’ll see if it even works – Thursday

plan – well see if it even works – Thursday

2. NO CHANGE

investment, that

investment, witch

investment which

 

3. NO CHANGE

Chicago, could benefit

Chicago – could benefit

Chicago that could benefit

 

4. NO CHANGE

Knoxville, Tennessee,

Knoxville Tennessee,

Knoxville, Tenessee,

 

5. NO CHANGE

pay for it, experts

pay for it, so experts

pay for it, but experts

6. NO CHANGE

decades – according

decades, according

decades; according

 

7. NO CHANGE

favorite themes: empowering

favorite themes – empowering

favorite themes; empowering

8. NO CHANGE

proposal, which

proposal which

proposal, that

  

9. NO CHANGE

program students

program – students

program that students

Restrictive Clause - THAT

•A restrictive clause  is just part of a sentence that you can't get rid of because it specifically restricts some other part of the sentence. Here's an example:

•Gems that sparkle often elicit forgiveness.

•The words that sparkle restrict the kind of gems you're talking about. Without them, the meaning of the sentence would change. Without them, you'd be saying that all gems elicit forgiveness, not just the gems that sparkle. (And note that you don't need commas  around the words that sparkle.)

Nonrestrictive Clause - WHICH•A nonrestrictive clause  is something that can be left off without changing the meaning of the sentence. You can think of a nonrestrictive clause as simply additional information. Here's an example:

•Diamonds, which are expensive, often elicit forgiveness.

•Alas, in Grammar Girl's world, diamonds are always expensive, so leaving out the words which are expensive doesn't change the meaning of the sentence. (Also note that the phrase is surrounded by commas. Nonrestrictive clauses are usually surrounded by, or preceded by, commas .) Here's another example:

•There was an earthquake in China, which is bad news.

Anti-Transcendentalists• Their view of the world lacked optimism.

• They saw a dark side to human existence

• Valued intuition over reason, saw signs and symbols in events, spiritual facts lie behind physical appearances.

• Spiritual facts are not necessarily good or harmless.

• Their view developed from the mystical and melancholy aspects of Puritan thought.

• Works explored the conflict between good and evil, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness and derangement in human psyche.

• They saw the blankness and the horror of evil within humanity.

Gold in the Mountain

Gold in the mountain,

And gold in the glen,

And greed in the heart,

Heaven having no part,

And unsatisfied men.

The Berg (a dream)

(Her standards set, her brave apparel on) Directed as by madness mere Against a solid iceberg steer, Nor budge it, though the infactuate ship went down. The impact made huge ice-cubes fall Sullen in tons that crashed the deck; But that one avalanche was all-- No other movement save the foundering wreck. 

Along the spurs of ridges pale, Not any slenderest shaft and frail, A prism over glass-green gorges lone, Toppled; or lace or traceries fine, Nor pendant drops in grot or mine Were jarred, when the stunned ship went down. Nor sole the gulls in cloud that wheeled Circling one snow-flanked peak afar, But nearer fowl the floes that skimmed And crystal beaches, felt no jar. No thrill transmitted stirred the lock Of jack-straw neddle-ice at base; Towers indermined by waves--the block Atilt impending-- kept their place. Seals, dozing sleek on sliddery ledges 

Slipt never, when by loftier edges Through the inertia ovrthrown, The impetuous ship in bafflement went down. 

Hard Berg (methought), so cold, so vast, With mortal damps self-overcast; Exhaling still thy dankish breath-- Adrift dissolving, bound for death; Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one-- A lumbering lubbard loitering slow, Impingers rue thee ad go slow Sounding thy precipice below, Nor stir the slimy slug that sprawls Along thy dead indifference of walls. 

Aurora Borealis (Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace – May,

1865)

What power disbands the Northern LightsAfter their steely play?The lonely watcher feels an aweOf Nature's sway,As when appearing,He marked their flashed uprearingIn the cold gloom--Retreatings and advancings,(Like dallyings of doom),Transitions and enhancings,And bloody ray.

The phantom-host has faded quite,Splendor and Terror gonePortent or promise--and gives wayTo pale, meek Dawn;The coming, going,Alike in wonder showing--Alike the God,Decreeing and commandingThe million blades that glowed,The muster and disbanding--Midnight and Morn. 

Dark Romanticism (Gothic Literature)

•Stressed that in opposition to the optimism of transcendentalism figures.

•Often based on the supernatural, the occult, and human psychology.

• Individuals are prone to sin and self-destruction

• Includes anthropomorphized evil in the form of Satan, ghost, and vampires.

•The natural world is dark, decaying, and mysterious.

Realism (Upton Sinclair, Henry James, Mark Twain)

• Portrayed ordinary life and characters and events in an objective, almost factual way.• Free from subjective, prejudice, idealism, or romantic color.

• Spurred by scientific and technological changes

• Writers felt the need to observe and describe their settings and characters with as much accuracy as possible

• The intuitive leap of the romantics was replaced by accurate depictions of setting, customs, manners, and speech

• Realists beliefs:• Objective, free will, sometimes optimistic, everyday settings, ordinary events,

common man characters.

TUESDAY, 1.13Wait for further instructions on the bell ringer.

Have your homework out on your desk.

1. NO CHANGE

plan, we’ll see if it even works, Thursday

plan – we’ll see if it even works – Thursday

plan – well see if it even works – Thursday

2. NO CHANGE

investment, that

investment, witch

investment which

 

3. NO CHANGE

Chicago, could benefit

Chicago – could benefit

Chicago that could benefit

 

4. NO CHANGE

Knoxville, Tennessee,

Knoxville Tennessee,

Knoxville, Tenessee,

 

5. NO CHANGE

pay for it, experts

pay for it, so experts

pay for it, but experts

6. NO CHANGE

decades – according

decades, according

decades; according

 

7. NO CHANGE

favorite themes: empowering

favorite themes – empowering

favorite themes; empowering

8. NO CHANGE

proposal, which

proposal which

proposal, that

  

9. NO CHANGE

program students

program – students

program that students

Restrictive Clause - THAT

•A restrictive clause  is just part of a sentence that you can't get rid of because it specifically restricts some other part of the sentence. Here's an example:

•Gems that sparkle often elicit forgiveness.

•The words that sparkle restrict the kind of gems you're talking about. Without them, the meaning of the sentence would change. Without them, you'd be saying that all gems elicit forgiveness, not just the gems that sparkle. (And note that you don't need commas  around the words that sparkle.)

Nonrestrictive Clause - WHICH•A nonrestrictive clause  is something that can be left off without changing the meaning of the sentence. You can think of a nonrestrictive clause as simply additional information. Here's an example:

•Diamonds, which are expensive, often elicit forgiveness.

•Alas, in Grammar Girl's world, diamonds are always expensive, so leaving out the words which are expensive doesn't change the meaning of the sentence. (Also note that the phrase is surrounded by commas. Nonrestrictive clauses are usually surrounded by, or preceded by, commas .) Here's another example:

•There was an earthquake in China, which is bad news.

Transcendentalism Socratic Seminar

Inner Circle will turn in the Seminar Prep Sheet Outer Circle will turn in the half-sheet

IN-CLASS MEL-CONRespond to the prompt in a single MEL-Con paragraph. (7-10

sentences)

This should take you no more than 10 minutes.

Anti-Transcendentalists

• Their view of the world lacked optimism.

• They saw a dark side to human existence

• Valued intuition over reason, saw signs and symbols in events, spiritual facts lie behind physical appearances.

• Spiritual facts are not necessarily good or harmless.

• Their view developed from the mystical and melancholy aspects of Puritan thought.

• Works explored the conflict between good and evil, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness and derangement in human psyche.

• They saw the blankness and the horror of evil within humanity.

Wednesday’s Class Thursday’s Class1. Grammar Practice

2. Grading MEL-Con Paragraphs

3. Finish Excerpt from Moby-Dick

4. Start Excerpt from The Scarlet Letter

• Grammar Practice

• Anti-Transcendentalism Socratic Seminar

• Anti-Transcendentalism MEL-Con

HOMEWORKRead the front page and annotate.