PPT-HENRY DAVID THOREAU and WALDEN POND

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 . 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. 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 . Do Now:. Take out your packet from yesterday.. Homework:. Get an . Into the Wild . book. Content Objective. : . Students will gain understanding . . on how to complete the “controlling idea” question and an understanding on literary elements of personification, tone , diction, and conflict.. 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. Rigdon. “Nature” Emerson. “Self-Reliance” Emerson and . Walden Thoreau . Walden. Thoreau. “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau. Walt Whitman. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 20. 20. 20. 20. 20. 30. 30. 30. 30. The Seven Steps of the Research Process. Walden Pond State Reservation, MA. . Found my topic while on vacation. View of Walden Pond, Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, . Massachusetts. . 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file.. 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). . 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 . 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, .