Prep for Thoreau/Emerson Project

Thoreau:

1. Real name is David Henry Thoreau, not Henry David Thoreau

2. Born July 12, 1817

3. Died May 6, 1862

4. Transcendentalist

5. Author of Civil Disobedience 

6. Philosopher

7. Author of Walden 

8. Naturalist

9. American Writer

10. Individualist anarchist

Emerson

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. Born May 25, 1803

3. Died April 27, 1882

4. Transcendentalist 

5. Influenced New Thought Movement of 1800s

6. Wrote the essay Nature

7. Made a speech called The American Scholar

8. Born in Boston, Massachusetts 

9. Formal schooling started at Boston Latin School

10. Later went to Harvard

sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau