PPT-American Culture I Henry David Thoreau’s

Civil Disobedience 18491866 spirit man nature Selfreliance Individualism Solitude Nonconformity Antiinstitutionalism Nature x Art Antimaterialism Antienlightenment Spiritual improvement. 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. 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 . 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. 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). . 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 . Henry Ford’s Idea. Henry Food had the idea to create an automobile that everyone could afford. To make this dream come true, he utilized the assembly line, and hired those he considered dedicated to their work. A strict, but fair employer, Ford paid a higher wage to his employees with their agreement to maintain high productivity. . 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 . M. Butterfly. David Henry Hwang. Born in Los Angeles in 1957.. Studied drama at Yale & Stanford.. Wrote . M. Butterfly. in 1988; it premiered on Broadway starring John Lithgow and BD Wong.. B. ecame the first Asian American to win a Tony Award.. 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, .