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Home Page: Stanton and Anthony Papers Online - 3 views

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    looks like an ongoing project
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    Used in my classroom when students needed an original source. Worled great!
KM Anderson

On Teaching Thoreau - 2 views

  • 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.
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  •   - 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.
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    good ideas
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    Excellent advice from an experienced (and local) teacher re intro'ing Thoreau to hs students.
KM Anderson

Replica of Thoreau's Cabin - 2 views

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    inside and outside shots of house replica
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    This replica stands closer to the main road at Walden Pond. There is a marker at the house site, as well.
KM Anderson

Departments > History > Thoreau Course - 0 views

  • 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.
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  • 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.
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    how a history teacher build a replica of T's house at Walden: excellent
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    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

Teaching Thoreau - 1 views

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    includes great list of kids' books re Thoreau
KM Anderson

Schech's Place: History & Thoreau - 0 views

  • Every month, I send out excerpts from Thoreau's Journal to an e-mail list. If you wish to subscribe to the monthly digest,
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    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
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    Excellent teaching resources here.
KM Anderson

Thoreau's Walking - 1 - 0 views

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    quotes from here used to introduce Thoreau to class
KM Anderson

Measuring Worth - Relative Value of US Dollars - 2 views

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

Emerson's Thoreau - 0 views

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    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.
KM Anderson

The Forester - 0 views

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    Bronson Alcott's tribute to Thoreau, published in Atlantic, written while Thoreau was dying.
KM Anderson

YouTube - Bird Songs - 0 views

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    so far the only one I can get to work at school
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    birdsong tracks for Silent Discussion re Thoreau quotes
KM Anderson

Thoreau's Walking - with annotated text - 0 views

  • "... in the distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing and prayer.
KM Anderson

MEET MR. THOREAU COURSE CURRICULUM - 1 views

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    tons of ideas here
KM Anderson

How Christian Were the Founders? - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    of interest?
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