The Thoreau Reader

What is the Role of Civil Disobedience Today? | By Doug DuBrin, an English and history teacher, as well as an editor and writer Subject(s) Social Studies, Civics Estimated Time: Two to three class periods, plus extended activities Grade Level 9th-12th Objective Through this lesson, the student will come to understand the practice of civil disobedience in view of both the death of Rosa Parks and of the 50th anniversary of her landmark act. Background for students: In light of the death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks (1913-2005), much of the nation has been examining Parks’ monumental action and legacy. Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South helped ignite a nationwide movement toward correcting deeply ingrained biases based on race in both the American government and in society. Background for teachers: Civil disobedience has its roots in antiquity, but its more recent application can be traced to American essayist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Procedure Part I: Part II Part III Part IV

Les bouquinistes 1. çà et là - Notez les accents graves. 'ça' et 'là' sont ici des adverbes de lieu réunis dans cette expression 'çà et là' signifiant 'de manière dispersée',' au hasard'. 'Là' peut être employé seul, mais 'çà' n'existe que dans cette expression. 2. bouquinistes - Un ou une bouquiniste vend des bouquins, c'est-à-dire des livres, avec un statut particulier comme c'est expliqué dans ce reportage. Mais le mot 'un bouquin' peut, lui, toujours désigner un livre même en dehors des bouquinistes. 3. un autre fonds - Notez la distinction entre 'le fond'qui signifie la partie basse d'une chose creuse ou la partie inférieure d'une dépression, et 'le fonds' -avec un 's' même au singulier- qui signifie une propriété ou un capital. 4. quelquefois - Notez la distinction entre 'quelquefois' en un seul mot avec un sens temporel signifiant 'de temps en temps' et 'quelques fois' avec un sens quantitatif signifiant 'plusieurs fois'. 5. 6. faut - Notez la suppression ici du 'il' impersonnel.

Transcendentalism by Miriam Drew on Prezi ‘I withdraw’: A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth A longer version of this interview appeared at ThoreauFarm.org. Paul Kingsnorth. Not everyone is quite ready to hear, or accept, what Paul Kingsnorth has to say. An English writer and erstwhile green activist, he spent two decades (he’ll turn 40 this year) in the environmental movement, and he’s done with all that. And not only environmentalism — he’s done with “hope.” In 2009, he founded, together with collaborator Dougald Hine, something called the Dark Mountain Project. These are precarious and unprecedented times … Little that we have taken for granted is likely to come through this century intact.We don’t believe that anyone — not politicians, not economists, not environmentalists, not writers — is really facing up to the scale of this … Somehow, technology or political agreements or ethical shopping or mass protest are meant to save our civilization from self-destruction.Well, we don’t buy it. Ouch. If “sustainability” is about anything, it is about carbon. Well, then. Nevermind.

La cave du Dr Orlof Théâtre complet (425 av JC, 388 av JC) d’Aristophane (Gallimard. Folio. 2 tomes) C’est peu dire que je n’y connais rien en littérature antique. A part Xénophon, lu dans le cadre de mes abécédaires, et quelques œuvres de Platon étudiées en cours de philosophie en terminale, je ne me suis jamais décidé (à tort !) à me plonger dans la tragédie antique ou les poèmes épiques de l’antiquité. Dans le cadre de la « bibliothèque idéale », j’ai décidé de m’attaquer au théâtre d’Aristophane, soit 11 pièces et un peu plus de 1000 pages (vous comprendrez ainsi mon silence radio depuis quelques temps, d’autant plus que ma lecture a été interrompue par quelques jours passés loin de chez moi !). Ne comptez pas sur moi pour vous offrir une fine analyse de toutes ces pièces et je demande pardon par avance aux hellénistes pour les quelques platitudes de base que je vais débiter sur le théâtre d’Aristophane. Me conseillez-vous d’autres auteurs antiques pour notre « bibliothèque idéale » ?

Transcendentalism - Feldmansite Transcendentalism in Modern Popular Culture The principles of the spirit, human-nature interactions, and idealism are just some of the many of Transcendentalism, a mentality of rising above natural, animalistic impulses and “transcending” into the spiritual self. This movement started in the mid-1800s and there are still many exemplifications of this ideology expressed through modern popular culture, including film: a prime example being “The Truman Show.” “The Truman Show,” released in 1998, is a movie about a man named Truman Burbank who was adopted by a television network and, since then, has been filmed and is, unknowingly, the star of his own show. The major Transcendentalist principle in the film is that of self-reliance, or relying on oneself to make a change. Teamwork is an essential skill used today. Transcendentalism in Popular Culture- Mihail A. “Avatar” is set on a planet distant from Earth. Teamwork is necessary skill to have. "Avatar" Pictures and Citations Photo 1 :

Part 1: A Navel-Gazing, Suburban Post-Boomer Awakens to the Climate Crisis The first time I walked to Walden, six miles north of my house in the thickly wooded suburbs west of Boston, it had nothing to do with the planet. And it didn't have much to do with Henry David Thoreau. I'd never been a communicant in the cult of Thoreau, never made my devotions in that temple. I'd done the assigned reading in college—"Civil Disobedience,"obviously, and Walden (OK, parts of it)—and that was about all. Wasn't really my thing. No, that first time, in the summer of '07, it wasn't about the planet. A year or so before, in the spring of 2006, I was emerging from a "personal crisis"—in my case, I was battling burnout and anxiety. It's impossible to exaggerate how far this all was from the Christianity, conservative and evangelical, in which I was raised—my incongruous Bible Belt upbringing in the '70s and '80s suburban L.A. It was also around this time that I started walking on weekends—taking relatively short walks along trails in the nearby woods and open fields.

Bienvenue sur le site de bouquins Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson Introduction Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Chapter I NATURE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. Chapter II COMMODITY "More servants wait on man Than he 'll take notice of Chapter III BEAUTY 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.

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