English 321 – Masterpieces in Young Adult Literature

Grant T. Smith, Ph. D.

Invincible Louisa – Internet Exercise

Directions: Before or while reading Invincible Louisa, use the internet to become familiar with the following:

· Bronson Alcott

· Temple School

· Abolition

· Transcendentalism

· Brook Farm Experiment

· Pilgrim’s Progress

· Medical practices in the mid-19^th century

· Fruitlands

· Henry David Thoreau

· Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your responses need not be lengthy—just enough to demonstrate that you understand the event, person, movement, etc.