Use context clues to determine the meaning of the bolded word. CATASTROPHES, including floods and earthquakes, did great damage to the farm town.

Of the three selections you read in this lesson, discuss the one story or poem that you think most closely represents the transcendentalist way of thinking. include textual evidence from both short story or poem and emerson or thoreau's essay that you use as an example. you should have no less than eight to ten sentences.