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TeacherServe® from the National Humanities Center - 0 views

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NEH religion nature environment AfAm AmLit

shared by KM Anderson on 18 Jun 09 - Cached
  • KM Anderson on 18 Jun 09
     
    huge portal site including large 1.) Divining Am: Religion in Am History 2.) Nature Transformed: The Environment in Am Hist 3.) Freedom's Story: Teaching Af Am Lit and Hist
KM Anderson

Departments > History > Thoreau Course - 0 views

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Thoreau teaching.resources quotes

shared by KM Anderson on 11 May 10 - Cached
  • 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
KM Anderson

On Teaching Thoreau - 2 views

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Thoreau teaching.resources

shared by KM Anderson on 11 May 10 - Cached
  • The overarching theme for all that follows could be summed up thus: go beyond discussion; do what Thoreau did; react and respond in the moment; then compare your responses to his. Through such means, you may start a conversation with Thoreau that crosses centuries.
  • - Thoreau was an intellectual who could work with his hands.
  • - He was a writer.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  •   - He was an observer of nature and our greatest nature writer.
  • - He lived for a time at Walden Pond.
  • - He advocated the embrace of solitude and simplicity.
  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    good ideas
  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    Excellent advice from an experienced (and local) teacher re intro'ing Thoreau to hs students.
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