Monday, October 14

Bienvenue! La classe commence encore pour les 6 semaines numéro deux

(WHAT THE HECK, I MIGHT AS WELL TEACH TWO THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY--FRENCH AND ENGLISH. MOST OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER EVEN STUDIED A WORD OF FRENCH CAN UNDERSTAND THAT, RIGHT?

Transcendentalism

Read Whitman's When I Heard the Learned Astronomer

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;	5
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. Yang Male Principle    Logic, analysis as a way of knowing    Sun    Dry    Red    3 Yin   Female Principle      Intuition      Moon      Moist      Blue      4 Yang    Male principle       Sun       Analysis, logic       Dry       Red       3 Yin   Female principal      Moon      Intuition      Moist      Blue      4 Now, give me an exegesis of the poem based on the ideas above HOMEWORK FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT Each one of you is to do research on Transcendentalism and contribute two sentences (three max!) to the document found at the Googole Doc found below. You will need to do some research on the Internet to see what you can find. The neat thing about this assignment is that you will find things that no one in this school knows about because you will become the experts on this matter. Synergy is what we’re talkin’ about here, baby. Collaboration gives us more information that any one person can accumulate. Go to this Google Doc: Transcendentalism--1st Period Go to this Google Doc:  Transcendentalism--2nd Period