Brief Discussion (building background on Emerson)
Video on Emerson- record 5 take-aways in your journal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSPuY4RONjo
Journal Prompt- Self Reliance (header)
According to Emerson and Thoreau, what does it mean to be self reliant? How will you become self reliant? Will you? Should you?
-10 minutes (goal 2 paragraphs)
Read/Write - From Walden (pg. 261-262 "In Conclusion")
Find the following quotes within your reading today and respond to them. Write a sentence explaining what he "literally" meant. Then write a second sentence or two explaining the deeper meaning. That's two sentences for each of the following quotes:
1. I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.
2. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for then I could see both the moonlights and the mountains.
3. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he imagines he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
4. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Computer/Missing Work- work on any missing assignments