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BINGO

Use these words to fill in your bingo sheet

imagery

religious reasons

"lover of nature"

transcendentalism

theory

tricked

occult

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concord, MA

pessimism

decorum

egotism

connate

transcendentalist

indubitably

the Oversoul

God

1800

slavery

realistic

sublime

real truth

civil

American thinker

transcendental club

"Nature"

individual

1836

blithe

essayist

wrap up

If you had to summarize transcendentalism to someone else, what would you say?

What Caused Transcendentalism to End?

4 Beliefs of Transcendentalism

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  • Real truth can only be understood by transcending logic
  • The Oversoul- belief in spiritual entity or force that connects all living things
  • Belief in the individual (self-reliance,conformity, the human spirit
  • Nature
  • The start of writing more realistic stories
  • growth of pessimism as slavery divided the nation
  • Civil War coming

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • turn to page 238
  • read the "Meet the Author" section and make sure to pay attention to the vocabulary.
  • continue to read the selection, "Nature"

  • Emerson believed that nature is everything from the universe to God
  • Nature is a theory, science is the key to unlock this theory, and mankind does not know enough about science to unlock the mysteries and theories of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Warm-Up

Journal Time!

  • Recognized as our first truly American thinker
  • he was a philosopher, poet, and essayist
  • Transcendentalism was significantly known after Emerson founded the Transcendental club
  • his first book was Nature, published in 1836

Based on previous knowledge, What do you think transcendentalist writers wrote about?

  • A Transcendentalist is a person who accepts the ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships
  • These people were connected through a group known as the Transcendental club
  • The leader of the club was Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is Transcendentalism?

  • A simple idea that people think about themselves and the world which exists beyond reason and experience
  • This movement started because of the rejection of certain religious reasons

Transcendentalism (1800-1830)

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