THIS WEEK MARKS THE LAST DAY we'll spend in the library working on junior theme. A revised paper that includes three additional sources--a short story, a poem, and an artwork--by known writers and artists, of some renoun, is due one week from Monday. This week we will immerse ourselves in American transcendentalism. Next week, we will start F.S. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

MONDAY

In library to work on locating an American artwork that depcts the theme in your research paper.
HW: Read the introductory materials from our first packet of readings, "What is Transcendentalism?" Read the first 2-page cover sheet, which provides an overview of the philosophy. Then read the first 9 pages from "Chapter 1: Transendentalism, An Introduction" in that same packet.

TUESDAY

In class, we will continue reading from the same readings as last night, and will begin reading the selection from H.D. Thoreau's Walden, from "Where I Lived and What I Lived For." I will provide a primer for reading Thoreau, and we will discuss his version of transcendentalism and his popularity in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
HW: Finish reading the selection from Thoreau, including the bit from "Brute Neighbors"

WEDNESDAY

Reading and annotating HDT's "Economy," the first essay in Walden. We leave off at the bottom of page five, and at minute 23 in track one of the linked LibriVox recording.
HW: Continue reading "Economy" up through and including the top of page 15.

THURSDAY

Continuing with a close reading of Walden and "Economy." Introduction to the credo addignment.
HW: Finish reading "Economy" for class on Friday.

FRIDAY

Shifting from Thoreau to Emerson. We will watch a film-strip on Emerson, will read the brief biography about him, and will likewise read the introductory essay by Ann Woodlief, "On 'Self Reliance'"
Listen to a reading of "Self Reliance" over the weekend. We will read it again, more carefully, next week. But you should have heard the entire essay at least once by Monday.