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Transcendentalism Project 2.0 - Examining Transcendental Thought in Pop CultureDirections: Using your understanding of Emerson’s beliefs based on your characteristics of Transcendentalism, your excerpt from Nature, and his aphorisms, you will look for examples of transcendental thought in popular culture and explain why the example reflects transcendental beliefs. You may choose any example (up to two) of pop culture you like, such as: comic strips, songs, sitcoms, television dramas, children's cartoons, movies, commercials, etc. Complete the following chart. This counts as a quiz grade, so you must be specific, clear, and neat. Make sure you use complete sentences in your explanation. Any evidence of cheating/plagiarizing will result in the grade of a zero.Pop Culture Item Name(s): ________________________________________Examples of Transcendental Thought: Complete the following chart to display your understanding of transcendentalism as a philosophy. What is the characteristic? What quote or example are you analyzing? How does the quote or example depict the characteristic? Explain. CharacteristicQuotation and ExamplesExplanation Characteristics of Transcendentalism:Very progressive – like rebellious teens, transcendentalists opposed many beliefs of their fore-fathers, the Puritans. Idealists/dreamers – concerned with that which is beautiful, good, and nobleTruth seekers who questioned everythingIntellectuals (focused on the “deep” questions in life, i.e. Who/what is God? What is man’s relationship to God? What is man’s relationship to nature?) Interested in educational innovations (new styles of learning)Valued individualism/self-reliance and equalityValued a person’s right to privacy and a private relationship to GodSympathetic to the suffering in the world – seeks improvementBelieved that man could communicate directly with God – God is in the world and accessibleAbolitionistsPro-women’s rightsForgiving – philosophically speaking, they felt that it’s not where you are, but where you are going that matters in life – it’s okay to make mistakes and be human – emphasis placed on the process of learning life lessons and improving Believed in living closer to nature RUBRIC – Pop Culture Choice: The item(s) you picked to analyze is an appropriate piece of pop culture that clearly represents transcendentalism philosophy (10 points). Characteristics: You have picked five different characteristics of transcendentalism that are present in the pop culture item. Each characteristic is a tenant of transcendentalism belief (10 points).Quotations and Examples: You have provided unique examples for each characteristic of transcendentalism from one or two genres of popular culture. You have make a complete and detailed description of the examples or quotations from popular culture resources (40 points)Explanation: Accurately describes several dominant characteristics of transcendentalism and accurately relates how they are used in the example or quotation (40 points) Tina’s Groove - Peanuts – ................
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