Class Discussion & Ranking

Students worked in self-selected groups to discuss Transcendentalism & Today.  Our focus was to consider how the tenets of Transcendentalism might be present in our lives today--or not.  After discussing a variety of questions, students selected what they considered to be the best part of their conversations and shared those ideas with me.  Far and away--many of them reflected on how they couldn't believe that they felt they couldn't live without their phones.  Shelter? Check.  Family? Check. IPhone 6+? Need that thing. NOW.  Hopefully, their discussions led them to have the sort of meaningful pauses Transcendentalists love.

Here they are in action:

Ask your student about Transcendentalism: do you think you could live up to the Transcendentalists' expectations?