PPT-HENRY DAVID THOREAU

18171862 Thoreau age 39 At 37 Concord MA Walden Pond Reconstructed cabin Pond in winter Need for wildness When I ask for a garment of a particular form my tailoress tells me gravely They do not make them so now not emphasizing the They at all as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates. Secondary English Language Arts. Day 2. July 31. st. to Aug 3. rd. , 2012. Facilitated by . Heidi Beeman. Objectives. By the end of . this . institute, participants . will: . R. eview . the . CCSS, its appendices, skills and understandings. Bell Work. Create a list of famous nonconformists. How did the individuals you listed depart from the norms of their time? Were they punished for their actions? Were they able to win others to their point of view?. Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience. What is Civil Disobedience. The refusal to comply with certain laws or pay taxes and fines as a peaceful form of political protest. Most commonly known through social activists. Self-Reliance . to . Civil Disobedience: . Guerilla Transcendentalist Projects. Aerie Treska. English Department. Roland Park Country School. Baltimore, MD . First, some context….. AP English 11. American Literature focus. 1817-1862. Thoreau, age 39. At 37. Concord, MA. Walden Pond. Reconstructed cabin. Pond in winter. Need for “wildness. ”. When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my . tailoress. tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates. Celebration of primeval American landscape. America as a garden-set aside by God. Unspoiled nature and expressions of the Divine. Lack of narrative detail. Limitless potential of unspoiled landscape. An exploration of the pond in Concord, MA where the Transcendentalist author lived and recorded his thoughts.. The . Hollowell. Farm. The . Hollowell. Farm. Thoreau uses the . Hollowell. Farm to showcase his belief that purchasing property actually “burns” the new owner. He suggests that one should liberate oneself from the desire to own something because it is better to leave . A 19. th. century literary and philosophical movement, based in New England, claiming that the individual conscience and intuition are key to finding truth, rather than the basic senses and logical reason.. Henry David Thoreau. DO NOW:. List . 3 things. in your life that you do ‘. deliberately. ’.. Henry David Thoreau. 1817-1862. Schoolteacher, essayist, poet. Most famous for . Walden . (pg 204). . Civil Disobedience. (1849,1866). spirit. man. nature. Self-reliance. Individualism. Solitude. Non-conformity. Anti-institutionalism. Nature x Art. Anti-materialism. Anti-enlightenment. Spiritual improvement. What is this from? . What does it mean?. “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations . [. seizing something without right]. , pursuing invariably the same Object evinces . [shows] . a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism . David Henry Hwang. David Henry Hwang (1957-) was born in Los Angeles and grew up in San Gabriel, as the first generation of a Chinese American fundamentalist Christian family. His father, a banker, immigrated to the US from Shanghai in the late . Best Walking by Henry David Thoreau A life of principle. A. n American author, essayist, poet, Transcendentalist and naturalist. He is best known for his book . Walden. , a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, .