GREEN WEDNESDAY/ PURPLE FRIDAY

Transcendentalism 1.2

Do now: What do you consider to be dominant American Values?  List.

Objectives:

• to try and identify American Values
• consider how a founding father approached “being an American”

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Make a class list of values

3. Franklin’s aphorisms:

• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
• Lost time is never found again.
• A place for everything, everything in its place.
• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

In pairs, consider: What do these quotes suggest about Franklin’s attitude toward life?

3. Franklin’s list of virtues: In pairs, review the list.  Do you agree with all of them?  Would you remove any?  Add any?  Are they still relevant in the 21st century?

4. Begin the American Art Presentation activity NOTES

5. Summarizer

HW: Research Transcendentalism.  Write one paragraph (5-8) describing the philosophy’s main tenets.