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Drawing of Thoreau's cabin by his sister Sophia

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Lesson 1: The life and times of Thoreau

Lesson 2: Thoreau's philosophy of government

Lesson 3: Thoreau's writing style

Lesson 4: Imprisonment and individuality

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Image Credits

KenKifer.com. "Analysis and Notes on Walden
Henry Thoreau's Text with Adjacent Thoreauvian Commentary." Copyright October 2003. http://kenkifer.com/Thoreau/

“On Civil Disobedience”

Introduction to “On Civil Disobedience”
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/lesson2_intro.htm

The entire text of “On Civil Disobedience”
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Thoreau/CivilDisobedience.html

First excerpt of “On Civil Disobedience” for Lesson Two
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/lesson2_reading.htm

Second excerpt of “On Civil Disobedience” for Homework ‘passage’ in Lesson Two
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/lesson2_hw.htm

Third excerpt of “On Civil Disobedience” for Lesson Three
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/lesson3_reading.htm

Fourth excerpt of “On Civil Disobedience” for Lesson Four (referred to as Reading #4)
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/lesson4_reading.htm

Thoreau’s Cabin at Walden Pond

Contemporary photographs
http://nanosft.com/walden/october/inside.html

A card model of Thoreau’s Cabin
http://fiddlersgreen.net/buildings/new-england/thoreau/cabin.htm

Henry David Thoreau Websites

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
http://thoreau.niu.edu/index.html

The Walden Woods Project
http://walden.org/

A Reading Group/Discussion Guide – Walden
http://beacon.org/readguide/rgwalden.html

Henry David Thoreau Biography

The History Channel
http://historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=116809

Biography on A&E
http://biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9506784&search=

The Columbia Encyclopedia
http://bartleby.com/65/th/Thoreau.html

Mexican-American War

USA History
http://usahistory.com/wars/mexico.htm

Descendants of Mexican Wars
http://dmwv.org/mexwar/concise.htm

The Fugitive Slave Act

History of the Underground Railroad
http://history.rochester.edu/class/ugrr/hor2.html

The National Center for Public Policy Research
http://history.rochester.edu/class/ugrr/hor2.html

Our Documents
http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=27

Slavery in Massachusetts
http://transcendentalists.com/slavery_in_ma.htm

Transcendentalism

The American Heritage Dictionary
http://bartleby.com/61/47/T0314700.html

The History Channel
http://historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=117499

Transcendentalists
http://transcendentalists.com/others.htm

PBS.org, The American Renaissance
http://pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Literature Network
http://online-literature.com/emerson/

Biography on A&E
http://biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9287153&search=

Brook Farm

A 19^th Century Social Experiment
http://cp.yahoo.net/search/cache?p=Brook+Farm,+West+Roxbury,
+Massachusetts&url=KokMGTmWDpYJ:crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/24-09/24-09-2.pdf

The Massachusetts Historical Society
http://masshist.org/database/query.cfm?queryID=53

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6592/

Slider Encyclopedia
http://slider.com/enc/8000/Brook_Farm.htm

Student Instructions – Research on “The Life and Times of Henry David Thoreau”

Student Instructions for Research on “The Life and Times of Henry David Thoreau”.
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/student_instructions.htm

Answer Key – 6 Research Topics on “The Life and Times of Henry David Thoreau”
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/research_answers.htm

Online Quiz on “The Life and Times of Henry David Thoreau”

http://school.discovery.com/quizzes26/cbhuck/HenryDavidThoreau.html

Worksheets

Types of Protest
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/types_of_protest.htm

Completed Types of Protest Worksheet
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/types_of_protestexample.htm

Assistance with Technology Applications

Polling
http://htmlgear.lycos.com/specs/poll.html

Create a Graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

Create an email account
http://yahoo.com/

http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2

Instant messaging software download (search MSN Messenger 6.1)
http://microsoft.com/downloads

Related Article

“A Digital Divide Between Students and Educators” by Bob Woods
http://instantmessagingplanet.com/public/print.php/10817_1447791

Literary Devices

The Spelling Police
http://spellingpolice.com/higher/higher.html

Transition Words and Phrases
http://uwc.tamu.edu/handouts/grammar/transition.html

Debate Scenarios

Anti-Thoreau
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/scenario_1.htm

Pro-Thoreau
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/unhs/vitulano/scenario_2.htm

Related Subjects

Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html

Ken Saro-Wiwa
http://pbs.org/newamericans/2.0/nigeria/sarowiwa1.htm

Green Peace
www.greenpeace.org

Earth First
www.earthfirst.org