Henry David Thoreau Walden – What I Lived for.ppt

15 In Walden, what does Thoreau tell the reader to do? To live the wealthy life. To shout To have a calm death To rush things To love the railroad To make cake To fall in love To watch TV To talk a lot To scream To write To simplify To try again use your backspace button. 16 According to Thoreau, what happens if a man confidently follows his dreams? Greed Fortune A miracle Technology War Misery Money Furniture Fame Stuff Peace Unexpected success To try again use your backspace button. CORRECT! Questions: 1 2 3 4 6 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Incorrect Try again… Questions: 1 2 3 4 6 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Presentation and game made by: Home Henry David Thoreau Walden Click here for a special GameQuiz If this does not work mute your computer. American Transcendental writer. Born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. Mother knew Emerson’s wife’s sister which led Thoreau to know Emerson. Studied in Harvard. (1833 – 1837) As a child, loved to explore the nature around Concord. Home Continue Was not an easy person to get along with. Wrote the very famous essay, Walden. Lived for 2 years, alone, in the woods, in a place called Walden Pond. Thoreau was a protester as well. Home Previous Page Continue Saw Mexican American War as an attempt to extend American slaveholding territory. Protests against the Mexican American War by refusing to pay his poll tax. (Is sent to jail 1 day because of this) Lived in Emerson’s house doing different weird jobs. Home Previous Page Continue Since 1948, lives the rest of his life in his parent’s house, living out of making pencils and doing many different weird jobs. Becomes sort of like the record keeper of Concord 1860, Thoreau gets a cold which leads to the discovery of his tuberculosis. In 1860 Thoreau dies from tuberculosis but has a very calm and peaceful death. Home Previous Page Walden is an essay by Henry David Thoreau based on an experiment that Thoreau did in order to rediscover the great