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KM Anderson

Measuring Worth - Relative Value of US Dollars - 2 views

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Thoreau money money.across.time year.money.converter

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  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    by Consumer Price Index, Thoreau's house ($28) would have cost about $794 today; by skilled labor wages, approx $12K.
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KM Anderson

Emerson's Thoreau - 0 views

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thoreau Ralph.Waldo.Emerson

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  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    Emerson's eulogy for Thoreau, published in The Atlantic. Click through to last page for some unpublished quotes and E.'s account of walking in the wilderness with T.
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The Forester - 0 views

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Thoreau Alcott

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  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    Bronson Alcott's tribute to Thoreau, published in Atlantic, written while Thoreau was dying.
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YouTube - Bird Songs - 0 views

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sound birdsong Thoreau

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  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    so far the only one I can get to work at school
  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    birdsong tracks for Silent Discussion re Thoreau quotes
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Schech's Place: History & Thoreau - 0 views

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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

Teaching Thoreau - 1 views

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Thoreau AmLit teaching.resources to.read

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  • KM Anderson on 11 May 10
     
    includes great list of kids' books re Thoreau
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Departments > History > Thoreau Course - 0 views

www.lsrhs.net/...thoreauscabin

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
KM Anderson

Join us for more discussion on the EC Ning - 4 views

NING EC AmLit

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David Hackett Fischer - 1 views

www.brandeis.edu/...person.html

Fischer to.read Am.history

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  • KM Anderson on 22 Jun 09
     
    his Albion's Seed is a must-read
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Death of a Salesman (1996) (TV) - 0 views

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film Arthur.Miller

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  • KM Anderson on 19 Jun 09
     
    Warren Mitchell as Willy Loman
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