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.