Today we spent some quality time learning about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement. We read From Education up to page 106, end of the second paragraph. The goal here is to familiarize yourself with archaic language, keeping in mind that even Emerson's contemporaries found his writing "impenetrable". For example, can you explain this sentence: "And yet the familiar observations of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor was more jeopardous than its continuance."? The continuance of that kind of text might put you in bad humor and be universally jeopardus to your powers of observation altogether. See there it is again - the FUN of learning!
Next we discussed the intro to the essay, and I secretly lamented that so few of you have even begun your introductions. This weekend was not a holiday, people! The essay is still due on Tuesday.
Homework: essay and vocab unit four.
We will work on the essay for the majority of the next class and peer-edit Friday.
See ya!
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