Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendentalist essays are staples in many American literature classrooms. "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" became the foundation of Emerson's philosophical view and values. These informational texts can be tools in analyzing argument, figurative language, text structure, author's purpose, main idea, and historical context. To facilitate this study, I've also included fillable .pdfs, Google Forms, and Google Slides. And to help students synthesize these texts, I've included 1