PPT-By Henry David Thoreau

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. 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?. 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. and Composition. Tuesday, February 3. rd. , 2015. Partner-Score Homework. Due: Read and Annotate. Thoreau . – . On the Duty of Civil . Disobedience. Reminder: . Be honest and accurate in your scoring. 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. By: Evan, Evan, Ben, and Jordan. Squatting. Thoreau did not own the land he built his house on. Instead, he was squatting – using an unoccupied space that he didn’t have permission to use.. He squatted for over 2 years . “John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California’s Mt. Ritter. In another essay Muir rapturously describes riding out a ferocious Sierra gale, by choice, in the uppermost branches of a on-hundred-foot Douglas fir…” (. 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. John Henry was about three days old,. Sittin. ’ on his Papa’s knee.. He picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel;. said, Hammer’s . gonna. be the death of me, Lord, Lord.. Hammer’s . gonna. Beheading. Learning Objective: . To learn why Henry VIII beheaded some of his wives.. Activity 1 – Engage:. Write in your Books the title and date and underline with a ruler.. Start Here. Write down 3 reasons why you think Henry VIII wanted a son.. (You may need extra paper!). expedient (n.) – an easy and quick way to solve a problem . standing (adj.) – lasting or permanent . liable (adj.) – likely to be affected or harmed by something Vocabulary to teach (may include direct word work and/or questions) . 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 . 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, .