There are many famous thinkers who helped form the transcendental movement. Do a presentation either on one of the thinkers in the movement, or on a group of them. Examples include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott. This presentation could explore either their personal life, their work or both.
Quite a few transcendentalists were women, an important fact considering it would be almost 100 years before women could vote in the U.S. The presentation could focus on how female transcendentalists influenced the movement, how they went outside of societal norms of women, and how they have influenced female philosophers and writers since. Famous female transcendentalists include Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson and Lydia Maria Child.
Transcendentalists created some of the most endearing and famous literary works in American literature, such as Thoreau's Walden, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and the poems of Emily Dickinson. A presentation could focus on how literature was used to explore and further the ideas and beliefs of transcendentalism.
The roots of transcendentalism were founded in a break with its founders and the Unitarian church. The Unitarian church believed that God could be found through reason, while the transcendentalists believed God could not be experienced intellectually. A presentation could focus on the religious aspects of the transcendentalist movement.