1. QuickWrite: Summarize the following quote in your own words. Then, respond to the quote itself. How does this quote relate to what you've read in Into the Wild so far?
The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again.
It came into him, life; it went out from him, truth.
It came to him, short-lived actions; it went out from him, immortal thoughts.
It came to him, business; it went from him, poetry.
It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought.
It can stand, and it can go.
It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires
Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing.
-Excerpt from The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Transcendentalism: What is it?
3. Chapters four and five
Homework:
1. Vocab for chapters 4-7 due tomorrow
The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again.
It came into him, life; it went out from him, truth.
It came to him, short-lived actions; it went out from him, immortal thoughts.
It came to him, business; it went from him, poetry.
It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought.
It can stand, and it can go.
It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires
Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing.
-Excerpt from The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Transcendentalism: What is it?
3. Chapters four and five
Homework:
1. Vocab for chapters 4-7 due tomorrow