Starter 10.2:  Read the following verse from Walt and reflect about the ideology contained therein.  (What does Walt value/believe?)

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?

Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. 

Mini-Lecture:  American Transcendentalism

Resource:  Tenets of transcendentalism

(If this philosophy resonates with you, look into it further.  It is certainly an ideology that you could choose to represent in your rhetoric project.)

Assignment:  Transcendentalist Thoughts

Discuss:  Do we still see transcendental ideology in the American experience today?

• Brainstorm examples

HOMEWORK
Read and Annotate "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau (due Monday)
This is a seminar text, so I expect you to annotate accordingly.