Transcendentalism 

Resources:

• Unit Goals for Transcendentalism

• Transcendentalism Overview

• Poetry Overview

• Literary Devices

• Strategies for Annotation 

• Study Guide

• Musical Connections Project

• Walden Video Game

Supplemental Videos:

• Thoreau's Political Theory

• Emerson's Literature

• Civil Disobedience Examples

• MLK on Civil Disobedience

• Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

• Crash Course on Nonviolent Peace Movements

• American Transcendentalism Documentary 

• Northern Nights, Starry Skies Documentary 

• Nature Meditation

• Does Social Media Lead to Social Conformity?

• Does Standardized Testing Kill Individuality?

Supplemental Readings:

• Thoreau's Tax Arrest

• Gandhi on Civil Disobedience

• MLK on Unjust Laws

• Mental Health Rewards of Embracing Minimalism

• Nature Immersion Health Benefits

• Kristen Stewart as a Nonconformist

• Lady Gaga as a Nonconformist

• The Data Behind Investing in a Tiny House

• Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"

Primary Souces:

ESSAYS:

• Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"

  • • *Civil Disobedience Modified Reading Level

• Thoreau's "Where I Lived"

  • • *Where I Lived Modified Reading Level

• Emerson's "Nature"

  • • *Nature Modified Reading Level

• Emerson's "Self Reliance"

  • • *Self Reliance Modified Reading Level

• Fuller's "Women in The 19th Century"

  • • *Women in 19th Century Modified Reading Level

• Fuller's "The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain"

• Peabody's "Plan of the West Rosbury Community"

• Thoreau's "Slavery in Massachusetts"

POEMS:

• Whitman's "When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer"

• Whitman's "O Me! O Life!"

• Emerson's "The Rhodora"

• Thoreau's "I Am The Autumnal Sun"