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Schech's Place: History & Thoreau - 0 views

schechsplace.tripod.com/ht.htm

Thoreau teaching.resources quotes to.read

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  • Every month, I send out excerpts from Thoreau's Journal to an e-mail list. If you wish to subscribe to the monthly digest,
  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    see far below for "Thoreau's Journal Drippings" or email him and ask for it: bill_schechter@lsrhs.net // EXCELLENT and thoughtful resources, study questions, and ideas for intro'ing HS students to Thoreau by a veteran teacher of Thoreau in a nearby hs
  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    Excellent teaching resources here.
KM Anderson

HistoryBuff.com - 2 views

www.historybuff.com

journalism newspapers AmLit resources

shared by KM Anderson on 18 Jun 09 - Cached
  • This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time.
  • KM Anderson on 18 Jun 09
     
    uber site w/ free resources; it's .com but says it's a nonprofit
KM Anderson

Departments > History > Thoreau Course - 0 views

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Thoreau teaching.resources quotes

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  • 1. How can one find truth and, specifically, the meaning of life? Can you find it by reasoning? How would you define "reason"? 2. What is the relationship between these two words: "religion" and "spirituality"? Are they the same? 3. If you belive in God, how do you understand the problem of salvation? How does one find God? How is one to be "saved"? How does one find a place in Heaven? 4. Have you ever had a "religious experience"? Where and when? 5. How would you describe your own personal relationship to nature? 6. Do you support the current environment movement? If so, why?
  • A SELECTION OF THOREAU QUOTATIONS (FOR REFLECTION & THE JOURNAL)
  • What is religion? That which is never spoken.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls.
  • Any melodious sound apprises me of the infinite wealth of God.
  • In wildness is the preservation of the world.
  • When I hear a robin sing at sunset, I cannot help contrast the magnanimity of nature with the bustle and impatience of man.
  • It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
  • In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they shall fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
  • The ways by which you get money almost without exception lead downward.To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    how a history teacher build a replica of T's house at Walden: excellent
  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    this is the material of Bill Schechter, a teacher (now retired) in the hist dept at Lincoln-Sudbury (MA) High School, located near to Thoreau's Concord. Look elsewhere on the LSRHS site for more excellent material from Mr. Schechter re Thoreau
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