Emerson
Thoreau
Fuller
Whitman
Pot Pourri
100
Emerson was described as a friendly, _________________ person, often socializing with peers like Margaret Fuller.
gregarious
100
What part of speech is "gregarious"?
adjective
100
Folks in her time would probably describe Margaret Fuller as a ______________ woman, determined in her pursuit of women's rights despite all obstacles.
tenacious
100
Ms. Dunavant described Walt Whitman as the original "hippie" given his free-thinking beliefs and easygoing ___________________ or nature.
disposition
100
What vocab word describes this cat?
loafe
200
Emerson and his contemporaries were ___________ scholars to persevere and graduate from Harvard College
tenacious
200
Thoreau moved to Walden Pond with _____________, cheerful and ready to learn more about himself in the process.
alacrity
200
Spell Ms. D's name correctly.
D-U-N-A-V-A-N-T
200
Students often find "Song of Myself" to be a ___________________ poem that was written to be intentionally confusing and baffling.
bewildering
200
What did Henry David Thoreau's father own and run?
a pencil making factory
300
Emerson was shocked after he _______________ed Whitman's Leaves of Grass, describing its contents as sensual.
peruse
300
The students claimed Thoreau was a _______________, unattractive man for his strange beard choice.
homely
300
Fuller argued against the ridiculous idea that educated women would become _________________ or unattractive to potential partners.
homely
300
What part of speech is "alacrity"?
noun
300
Where did Ms. D go to high school?
Battle Ground Academy
400
Emerson described Fuller as a ______________, baffling woman for her vivacious personality and strong will that was uncommon for her gender at the time.
bewildering
400
Some critics would say that Thoreau's goal was simply to ___________________ as a self-sufficient outdoorsman when in reality he was a mama's boy.
masquerade
400
What happened to Margaret Fuller's original publication of Woman in the Nineteenth Century?
It was pirated and sold in Europe without her knowledge
400
Our _______________ society should learn to appreciate the simple things like a blade of grass rather than greedy, materialistic things.
acquisitive
400
What is the name of our groundhog friend who lives outside Ms. Stellaci's window?
KEVIN!
500
What is Emerson's middle name?
Waldo
500
Spell this vocab word...
acquisitive
500
What was Margaret Fuller's father's profession?
lawyer
500
Whitman wrote, "I lean and ___________ at my east observing a spear of summer grass."
loafe
500
Name at least 4 key themes/beliefs of Transcendentalism
Nature, Self-reliance, free religion, abolition, humanism/the good of mankind, etc.