2: The Transendentalists (approx 3 weeks)

Learning Targets:
I can decode literature that is not written in late modern English
I can use evidence to support an argument
I can express beliefs of great importance  

Concord Trip to kickoff Transcendentalists
Have students self-select into creative/analytical/practical groups for Concord .
Question: Who are the Transcendentalists and why do they matter? (Do they matter?)\
Read Transcendentalist Essays:
Emerson, Nature
Expert— Erica Wheeler—Soulful landscape workshop
Emerson, Self-Reliance
Thoreau—options (Differentiated by choice/readiness. Some groups are more and less supported)