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Junior Honors students are currently reading a book that supports our goals for the Transcendentalism Unit.  Throughout their reading, students are tracking whether or not the main character exhibits the main tenets of Transcendentalism that we studied:

1.  Non-conformity
2.  Self-reliance (solitude)
3.  Importance of Nature
4.  Free Thought
5.  Confidence

They are reading ONE of the following books:




Throughout their reading, in addition to focusing on answering whether or not the main character is a Transcendentalist, students are analyzing particular aspects of the writing to help make their determination.  These include, but are not limited to:

1.  characterization of main character
2.  setting
3.  characterization of minor characters and thereby, comparing them to the main character
4.  structure and syntax
5.  quote selection
6.  theme