"Self-Reliance"

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive.

NOTE:  Two book reviews are due Tuesday, January 21st.  Be sure to follow the rubric and be sure your book review on Goodreads shows paragraphing according to the rubric's guidelines. I should see distinct paragraphs when I open your review.  Provide some space between each paragraph.

* "The Wanderer" -- Yesterday you wrote a paragraph in your ENGLISH JOURNAL interpreting this painting.  Please share your response today.

*Please go to your Google docs and open the View Only folder for this class.  In the folder you will find a copy of  "Self-Reliance."  Please MAKE YOUR OWN COPY so you can annotate it.  Complete the questions at the bottom after we have discussed the essay.

*"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Emerson was a leader of the movement in the early 1800's called Transcendentalism.  Transcendentalism emphasized the importance of the individual, advocating self-reliance.  Self-reliance meant that each individual must depend on his or her own judgment and experience as a guide for living.  Emerson believed strongly in the need for every person to develop his or her potential as an individual and in the need to think independently. 

HOMEWORK:  Post your two book reviews on Goodreads.  Fill out the form for the book review URL under "Important Links" on my blog.