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Video Comprehension Questions: Who was excluded from the ideals of individualism and the "self-made man" that structured Franklin's beliefs? Context Questions: How did Franklin construct his own life as a model for others to follow in his Autobiography? To what extent did Emerson share with Franklin a desire to serve as a model to his fellow Americans? How were Emerson's ideas about the importance of individual experience different from Franklin's? Exploratory Questions: How do Franklin's ideal of success and his notion of the "self-made man" conflict with or grow out of Puritan theology? How have Franklin's ideals influenced later American writers? How did later Americans challenge and transform the model of the "self-made man"? What is American literature? What are its distinctive voices and styles? How do social and political issues influence the American canon? Video Comprehension Questions: What is Transcendentalism? Context Questions: When he embarked on his project to arrive at "moral perfection," what did Franklin stress as the most important virtues to cultivate? How do Franklin's "thirteen virtues" compare to the kinds of virtues Emerson seems to espouse? Exploratory Questions: How did Franklin's Autobiography influence later writers of autobiography? How did his book transform the autobiographical genre in America? What characteristics of a literary work have made it influential over time? Video Comprehension Questions: According to Emerson, what kind of relationship exists between individuals and nature? What is "nature" for Emerson? Context Questions: How did Franklin organize his own time? How did Franklin's advocacy of schedules and efficiency influence the way Americans think about and structure industry and labor? How did Emerson challenge the assumptions behind Franklin's ideas about efficiency and industry? Exploratory Questions: Emerson is often described as the writer with whom every other American writer has had to come to terms. What impact did Emerson's philosophy and transcendental ideals have on writers like Fuller, Thoreau, Whitman, or Dickinson? How did Emerson change ideas about individualism and about the artist's role in American society? | |  This tool builds multimedia presentations for classrooms or assignments.   An online collection of 3000 artifacts for classroom use.   Download the Instructor Guide PDF for this Unit. | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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