PPT-Henry David Thoreau Walden & Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau DO NOW List 3 things in your life that you do deliberately Henry David Thoreau 18171862 Schoolteacher essayist poet Most famous for Walden pg 204 . th. Century to 21. st. Century. Elizabeth Thompson. Framingham High School. 2011. Definition. The concept of civil disobedience originates from Thoreau’s 1849 essay . Civil disobedience – a refusal to obey governmental laws as a form of nonviolent protest. Vanessa Arnold &. Annie newberry. Passive Resistance, The Insanity Plea, Civil Disobedience, and Mob Rule. Literary and Legal Terms. Transcendentalism: A literary and philosophical movement “based on the premise that truth is innate in all of creation and that knowledge of it is intuitive rather than rational.”. 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?. Evidence. of Hindu and . Buddhist. Thought in the works of H.D. Thoreau. Elizabeth Thompson. Framingham High School. 2011. Transcendentalism. C. irca 1830 Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were at the forefront of the creation Transcendentalism, a spiritual, political, and intellectual . 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 . 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.  .  . Write your thesis (either the original you included in your timed write, or a revision). Write your reasons for your stance.. Because….  . Because….  . Because….  . Because…. Review the example of Civil Disobedience you brought for this assignment. Decide which side of the T-chart you think this example exemplifies. Civil Disobedience. Quote: . By Henry Thoreau. . Meaning . - Choice is freedom, even if the choice is to disobey. Obeying all orders, even when unjust, is being a slave.. Henry Thoreau coined the term “. English II. Context Clues. The team was . elated. when they won the trophy. . make (someone) ecstatically happy.. During the demonstration, a . skirmish. broke out and the police were called to restore order. . 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 . 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, .