Nature Walking with the Transcendentalists

Connecting to but not dependent upon the American Transcendentalism course (English elective for grade 11) go to important sites of early and later American Transcendentalists, especially Long Island (Whitman's birth house and walking routes, beaches, coves, etc.). Margaret Fuller (Nantucket), Walden Pond and Concord (Thoreau and Emerson), and Amherst (Emily Dickinson). Explore the value of nature, the value of walking (and "poking around") and connect to short texts from these writers and others influenced by them (new and older).