Transcendentalism+in+Walden

In class we considered 11 passages from Walden that represented various aspects of Transcendentalism. To begin each student read one passage and jotted down a note-some form of analysis, description, defining, questioning, etc. After three short minutes, the students passed the passage on to the next student and the process repeated itself. By the end of the activity, every student had read and commented on every passage. The result is below in the PDF "Transcendental Philosophy in Walden-Quotes and Notes." After this process, we came together as a class and considered how Thoreau had started with a fact or physical reality and then "transcended" to an understanding or truth. The notes are also linked [|here] .