Time will pass; will you? 37 days

remain in the fall semester.

Today’s Goals: To read an

analyze a transcendental poem

To understand and discuss ferment and reform in the 1800-1850s

The Course Calendar is updated. Essay Contests: You may want to consider the Williams

Institute Ethics Essay, Voice of Democracy , and/or Polly Rosenbaumm—these are all posted on the class website under the “Course Calendar” tab

Are you monitoring your grades? Alert us immediately to any discrepancies.

The Class Website

Monday: Grammar Lesson #4: “Coordination in the Compound

Sentence” A Day at Brook Farm

Tuesday: `The next set of annotated bibs :1 pro, 1 con and 1

visual —tii upload required Wednesday:

Emerson readings and Socratic Prep is due: “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Education”

Thursday: American Pageant, Chapter 16: “The South and Slavery

Controversy,” pages 370-384 Unit Test 1-3.5 M/C (focus Chapters 12-15)

DePaul Univ. handout Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/ Isn’t the internet a double-edged sword –

overload but wondrous information such as Meece’s Masters paper on Plato (essentialism/idealism) compared to Bergson (existentialism) then both compared to their joint disagreement with materialism (Diedrot, Feuerbach, Marx, and many current science philosophers)

American Pageant, Chapter 15: “The Ferment of Reform and Culture” Questions on Guiding Questions? - Turn in. 2nd Great Awakening and new religious sects

including Mormons Temperance Movement Institutional reforms: Education and schools,

mentally ill, prisons Abolitionism (will grow to be major movement) Suffrage movement – “Declaration of

Sentiments” and Resolutions (1848) – page 230 of Document book