Name ______Date ______Period ______

Introduction to Transcendentalism: Art Prediction Activity

Directions: Observe and analyze the following examples of Romantic art. What do you notice about each painting? What do you think the Transcendentalists valued? How do they see nature, and the role of mankind in nature?

Evidence
What do you observe? / Inference
What information can you gather from your observation? What does this evidence reveal about Transcendentalism?

Name ______Date ______Period ______

Introduction to Transcendentalism: Music Prediction Activity

Directions: Observe and analyze the provided song lyrics. While the music was not written during the American Transcendental movement, each song embodies key ideas regarding Transcendental values. What do you notice about each song? What do you think the Transcendentalists valued?

Evidence
What do you observe? / Inference
What information can you gather from your observation? What does this evidence reveal about Transcendentalism?

You Gotta Be

Des’ree

Listen as your day unfolds
Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears
Stand up and be counted
Don't be ashamed to cry
You gotta be
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard
You gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm
You gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day
Herald what your mother said
Readin' the books your father read
Try to solve the puzzles in your own sweet time
Some may have more cash than you
Others take a different view
My oh my heh, hey
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard
You gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm
You gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day
Don't ask no questions, it goes on without you
Leaving you behind if you can't stand the pace
The world keeps on spinning
You can't stop it, if you try to
This time it's danger staring you in the face
Oh oh oh Remember
Listen as your day unfolds
Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears
My oh my heh, hey, hey
You gotta be
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard
You gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm
You gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard
You gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm
You gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day

My Way

Anka, Paul (Frank Sinatra)

And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend I'll say it clear
I'll state my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
Regrets I've had a few
But then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
Yes there were times I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all
And I stood tall and did it my way
I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say not in a shy way
Oh no, oh no, not me
I did it my way
For what is a man what has he got
If not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way
Yes it was my way

All That’s Known

Spring Awakening

All that's known
In History, in Science
Overthrown
At school, at home, by blind men
You doubt them
And soon they bark and hound you-
Till everything you say is just another bad about you
All they say
Is "Trust in What is Written"
Wars are made
And somehow that is wisdom
Thought is suspect
And money is their idol
And nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their Bible
But I know
There's so much more to find-
Just in looking through myself
And not at them
Still, I know
To trust my own true mind
And to say: there's a way through this
On I go
To wonder and to learning
Name the stars and know their dark returning
I'm calling
To know the world's true yearning-
The hunger that a child feels for everything they're shown
You watch me-
Just watch me-
I'm calling
And one day all will know
You watch me-
Just watch me-
I'm calling, I'm calling.
And one day all will know