Hello!
Today, we're going to talk about your reverse outlines of either Goldman or Kennedy, which you have emailed around to classmates and your professor, as well as printed out and placed in your journal.
We'll consider the six values identified by the textbook's authors to be central to American culture and life, and see how they connect with the primary sources' perspectives (like Patrick Henry and Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, but also Goldman and Kennedy).
Then, we'll look at some selections from Emerson's Self Reliance.
Your journal assignment for today (to be completed no later than 3:54 on Thursday afternoon) is this:
Choose one of the lines or paragraphs from the handout on self-reliance.
Quote it at the top of your essay. What do you think Emerson means
in just that one quotation? Do you identify with Emerson's value of self
reliance, or do you disagree? Why or why not?
Before Thursday, please make sure you reread I Hear America Singing as well as your fellow students' versions of the poem, as published in The Nation. Choose which -ing verb you want to use instead of "singing" in YOUR version of the poem--we'll work on your poems in class on Thursday, and you'll finish them before class on Tuesday, September 17.
Don't forget--you can sign up for SpeechSLAM for extra credit! You need to sign up by September 13 in order to perform!
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