Personal Fulfillment is about becoming the

best possible version of yourself

Definitions of personal fulfillment and ideas about
how to accomplish it changed throughout history
These various collections of ideas are known as
literary schools of thought

 A school of thought refers to the sources of inspiration,

attitudes, interests, and social concerns that are common to

particular generation or group of people.

We discussed three literary schools of thought during this

unit:

1. Neoclassicism (1700s)
2. Romanticism (early 1800s)
3. Transcendentalism (early 1800s)

Neoclassicism
Phillis Wheatley
An Hymn to the
Evening
To Captain H.D. of
the 65th Regiment
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography

Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Henry Wadsworth Henry David Thoreau
Longfellow
My Life
A Psalm of Life My Prayer
The Tide Rises,
The Tide Falls

 Franklins Autobiography is a first-person narrative in which

Benjamin Franklin explores his personal perspectives on

significant moments about his life.

Franklin writes about the experiment he designed to see if

he could achieve moral perfection

He develops thirteen virtues, or characteristics, of a good

person, including: temperance, silence, order, frugality, and

resolution

He frequently conveyed his wisdom using aphorisms, short,

catchy statements that express general truths about life.

 There are five characteristics of Romantic writing:

1. An interest in common people and/or childhood

experiences

2. Strong senses, emotions, or feelings,

3. An awe of nature

4. A belief in the importance of imagination

5. A celebration of the individual experience

 A Psalm of Life is a poem that celebrates the joy of life

and encourages readers to live life to the fullest.

Longfellow conveys strong emotions and feelings when he

exclaims: Act,--act in the living Present! Heart within, and

God oerhead!

He suggests that our lives could inspire the generations

that follow us through a metaphorical image of leaving

footprints in the sands of time

The speaker of the poem believes that through inspiration,

even common, everyday people can become great.

 This poem is about a lone stranger who hurries

across the beach as the ocean ebbs and nighttime

falls.
The speaker shows an interest in the individual
experiences of common, everyday people,
represented by the nameless traveler in the poem
The poem contains several instances on sensory
imagery to describe the sea, which calls and calls
in the darkness

 In persuasive writing, we identify a specific

audience.
We state a central claim, which we support with
specific examples.
We avoid distracting the audience from our central
message.
We aim to engage the reader with persuasive
writing strategies, such as rhetorical questions.