Unit Two -- Romanticism and Transcendentalism

ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.

1. Read it again. What is a theme? Would you know one when you saw it? Could you provide evidence to support what you say? Take a moment to post to your blog what this standard might mean, and while you are at it, what this thing called theme" is.

The theme is the main plot of a story. No the theme is summarised through the story. yes. the standard means that the student has found the theme and shows evidence of it to support his understanding.

2. What about the story did you find particularly Romantic? You may want to reread the section on Romanticism again to refresh your memory. Give at least two examples with direct evidence for each.

One part were they says how the mountains are different by the sky they are coated in the clouds which is reflecting on nature and escaping other things. it's romantic cause it shows how they looked at nature in a different way.

Another was that he was real helpful around the city he would never refused to help a person, but rather do others work than his at home. it shows Romanticism by always giving a helping hands no matter a situation

3.How does this poem illustrate all three of the main themes of Romanticism? Make sure you provide evidence for each claim you make.

1. In the beginning he talks about nature one of the romanticism themes. he talks bout death and if you are scare of it to go to outside and listen to the voice of mother nature.It also says that we came from the earth and we have to go back to it that is how nature is.

2.another was focus of imagination. that is when he thought that mother nature was talking to the writer.for imagination it also tells the reader to imagine all the dead people buried and it comforts people who are scared of dying.

3.the last one was promotion of common people which means that a regular person can achieve anything a king and other important people can. it showed that in the poem by saying that we all die the same way. It means that even a king will die and return back to the earth as any other common person.

4. Take a moment to review the Georgia Performance Standards we have studied so far:

As specifically as possible, please explain how you have addressed the above standards. You should have something to say about each.

ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation.

I have addressed this standard by providing evidence of the work i have done and showing comprehension of it.

ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.

I addressed this standard in assignment 3 when i identified the 3 themes of Romanticism.

ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.

I this standard when i had to relate the song that Mr. Siegmund played to its background,other time periods and works of literature today.

5. When you are through reading, post a 1-2 paragraph response to each piece of writing to your blog. Be sure to concentrate more on what you thought of each piece of writing.

"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Well for nature it was kinda hard to understand it but what i understood was that the writer was talking about all the special things about nature. The writing was alright and it was interesting but it was hard for me to understand it because i was not really attracted by it.

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"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I kinda like this story better because it was shorter. i also liked it because i understood it better and didn't have a hard time figuring out the answer for number 6. the themes in this story were put better into words and were easy to find

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6. Next, write explain how each piece is a good example of Transcendentalism by identifying the central themes I described earlier in the post. Use what you read above, and prove that each piece is a good example with a paragraph supported with direct evidence (one paragraph each)

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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One of the themes is that men adore that god spoke through peoples mind and their hard work, and it says this in the stories when the men is talking about the farms and how beautiful they are and the hard work the farmers put into them.It also talks about another theme in which it says that the human mind is one of the most powerful things in the world and that all the mind were connected through "oversoul". It talks about that by saying how the men imagined the stars and what would happened to them if they came in a thousand years.

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"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In this story it brings one of the themes very clear to the reader. It talks bout humans representing the hard work it says that a man is relieved and gay when he puts his heart into his work and he has done his best. Another of the themes represented in the story is that peoples mind is a powerful instrument to the transcendentalist. it explains that when it talks about how all the cultures are different and how humans do their best to make more secure places for each other.

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7. How can you apply Transcendental philosophy to the man in this video? I'm sure you could easily spend a couple paragraphs telling me how. I also know it would be easy for you to back up whatever you say with direct evidence from the texts you have already read. If you are really into it, you might read a little of Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Just choose a couple sections you think you would like.

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Well at first the man found a place where there would be no other humans around just him and nature. then he started building a house in that area before the winter came. He worked hard on his little cabin put all hit time and best into to it. when he was done building his cabin he really admire the hard work he put into to it and loved it. then before winter came he moved all his stuff to the cabin to live supposedly all the years of his life he had lefted. he lived there for about 30 years if i remember Right then he was too old to keep living on his own. he decided to move back to human society and his cabin still stands there and all the Beauty of nature around it.

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Well from what i read the man put hard work into what he really wanted. From the story's i read it also goes back to "nature" were the man was looking at the fields and he saw all the hard work the farmers put into them so the would look beautiful from the poets eye and all the luscious crops growing in them. also another part of the story was how the man decided to isolate him self from all other and stay with his own thing which to me seems like it was sorta of a religion of his own that's how i interpreted that part. from the text that goes back to were "self-Reliance were the human was on his sorta own thing that Didi not seem to other religion.