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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Each and All" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Each and All" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Eros" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Eros" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Fable" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Fable" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Forerunners" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Forerunners" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Insight" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Insight" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Merops" (Articulate Speech) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Merops" (Articulate Speech) by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and the audio of the poem "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "The Apology" Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "The Apology" Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "The Humble Bee" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "The Humble-Bee" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "The Snow Storm" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and the audio of the poem "The Snow-storm" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "The Sphinx" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem The Sphinx" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Thine Eyes Still Shined" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Thine Eyes Still Shined" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: "Waldeinsamkeit" (Forest Solitude) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Waldeinsamkeit" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Beauty of the Everyday

For Students 9th - 10th
Ralph Waldo Emerson taught us about the presence of nature and something a little divine inside all of us; simultaneously helping usher in what was considered, "America's intellectual declaration of independence." [10:52]
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eBook
University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and search for thirty poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, taken from the book "Early Poems." Includes a brief biography of Emerson.
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Website
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum

For Students 9th - 10th
By using music and various writings, students will explore the advantages and disadvantages of conforming to society's expectations at this site.
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Website
Eserver

E Server: The Thoreau Reader: Introduction to the Works of Thoreau

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent article detailing the major events of the life and works of Henry David Thoreau. Complete with links to Thoreau's most famous works and interesting details about his life.
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Activity
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Ralph Waldo Emerson Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson/activity for students in honor of the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. From ReadWriteThink's calendar from May 25, 2007. Provides web links, a bibliography, and lesson plans.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge His of Eng and Am Lit: Place of Emerson in Amer Letters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This chapter from vol. XV of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is the starting point of an extensive resource for students who wish to study the life and works of this major American literary figure. Includes...
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eBook
University of Michigan

Making of America: Ralph Waldo Emerson, by A. Bronson Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Michigan offers this reproduction of Bronson Alcott's work as part of their Making of America series. A search feature allows users to search using boolean operators or a proximity search as well as more basic keyword.
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eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Emerson the Individualist

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library, this website contains the online text of the 1903 work by Benjamin DeCasseres titled, "Emerson the Individualist."
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Lesson Plan
Other

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist Philosopher

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Information and lesson ideas pertaining to the famous American thinker. The yellow, left side of the page contains teaching ideas, and the white, right side of the page contains background.
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Website
Texas A&M University

American Transcendentalism Web

For Students 9th - 10th
A scholarly site with many articles about American transcendental authors, their work, and philosophy.