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Lesson
3: The Value of Criticism
Time Required:
40 minutes
Materials:
Critique
student worksheet #4 (PDF), pen
Directions:
1. Discuss Ralph Waldo Emerson as a major critic of the 19th
century. Explain to students that in The Conduct of Life (1860,
rev. 1876) Emerson makes the following criticism in the section "On
Wealth":
"The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to
invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual
creation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched,
in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation, nor unless through
new powers and ascending pleasures, he knows himself by the actual
experience of higher good, to be already on the way to the highest.
2. Discuss the meaning of the excerpt. Ask students if they
agree or disagree. Why?
3. Discuss how criticism can be a valuable tool toward progress,
as in the case of Emerson and his contemporaries. Have students identify
how Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, or Walt Whitman might
agree or disagree with Emerson's concept of wealth.
4. Distribute Critique
student worksheet #4 (PDF) and encourage students to seek criticism
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