Name ___Nancy Hernandez___

Period ___4___

Transcendentalism Web Quest

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as
soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think about the quotation listed above while you answer the following
questions in this webquest.
Step one: Gain a basic understanding of Transcendentalism
1. What authors are associated with this movement?
Ednah Dow Cheney, Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller
2. What century did this movement take place in?
19th Century

3. The Transcendentalists stood at the heart of The American Renaissance-the flowering of our nation's thought in __literature__, __poetry__,
__painting__, __sculpture __, __architecture __, and __music__ in the period
roughly designated from __1835__-__1880__.
4. What area of the U.S. did this movement begin in?

5. Emerson attempted to define the philosophy in simple terms as "What is

popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it
appears in 1842." But it is much larger and more complex than that. How
is it described further along in this paragraph?
6. What was the Transcendentalist club?
A club formed in 1836 by Henry Hedge, George Putnam, George Ripley,
and Emerson met at a hotel to talk about deeper and broader views.

How/why/where did it develop?

How: Henry Hedge and his friends got together. Why: Because they
thought that the present state of America was very unsatisfying. Where:
at the Willards Hotel.
7. How difficult was it to become a member of this club?
It was very difficult because there was a lot of men that were very smart
and talented. They were all competing all the time.
8. Who called the first-ever meeting of this club?
Henry Hedge
Step two: Explore several figures from the Transcendentalist
movement.
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson :
Waldo Emerson is truly the center of the American transcendental movement,
setting out most of its ideas and values in a book, nature Published in the
year 1836.
10.Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was a man that had many talents who worked to work
up his life and craft. He was born in 1817. He thought that nature was the
ultimate truth.

Step 3: Transcendental Art

11.
Your mission is to find a piece of artwork
(painting/photography/etc) that represents Transcendentalism in some
way. Copy/paste the artwork into this document and explain in at least
2 sentences how this art represents Transcendentalism.