https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct Each person needs to do the following: 1 brief summary of your section(s), 2 pictures that relate to your assigned passage, 3 quotes from the text that demonstrate the message (cite them properly with the author’s last name and page number!), 4 of your own thoughts and connections to the section(s) or Transcendentalism, 5 facts/details about your assigned passage. en-us 2017-03-19 15:55:19 UTC 2026-02-26 14:01:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211373167 1. Thoreau bought his cottage on Walden Pond from an Irishman named James Collins. He believed that living so close to nature and away from the hustle of city life would be beneficial to both his body and his mind. Thoreau lived in the cottage for just over two years, and considered it extraordinarily helpful to his writing career. In the Economy passage, he discusses every day life at Walden, and all the work that goes into it. ]]> 2017-11-29 13:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211373167 19sparagesa https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211380870 1. There are many ants that go to war against each other in order to survive. Thoreau describes them as an army with the quote "conquer or die" as their battle cry. In addition to the ants who are fighting for survival,  there is a time where Thoreau is surrounded by nature in a way that he is boating in a pond, and observes the gracefulness and interesting way the loon (ducks) dive and approach where he is paddling. In the conclusion, Thoreau experiences the sylvan landscape near a cabin. He thinks about life's questions and how the life in us is like the water in the river, with waves, floods, dry land, etc. He concludes his questions about life by saying that "the sun is but a morning star."]]> 2017-11-29 13:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211380870 https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211383022 1. Thoreau contemplates his surroundings and reflects how they are different from the modern world where most people dwell. He considers what it means to be alone and reflects on this intimate relationship with nature, particularly his bean field. 

2. See pictures

3.  "We live meanly, like ants" (Thoreau 220). " I passed it again the other day, and was struck with awe on looking up and beholding that mark" (Thoreau 221). "Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue with a hoe" (224). 

4. 
- He clearly values nature and this is evident in every section that I read.
- I can see how his theories would be revolutionary for his time.
- It was interesting how he could take the tiniest detail and make it symbolize something profound. 
- He clearly had a mission to improve his happiness and satisfaction with his lifestyle. 

5. 
- He valued the simple life. 
- He was not satisfied with modern society. 
- He was perfectly content alone. 
- He grew very fond of his bean field. 
- He demonstrated his connection to nature in all he did. ]]> 2017-11-29 13:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211383022 19sparagesa https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211386036 2017-11-29 13:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211386036 19sparagesa https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211386803 2017-11-29 14:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211386803 19sparagesa https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211829300 1.  "I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day ass if i has has my feelings excited and harrowe by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a hyman battle before my door" (Thoreau 225).
2. "He maneuvered so cunningly that I could not get within half a dozen rods of him" (Thoreau 226). 
3. "The light which puts ot our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star" (Thoreau 228).]]> 2017-11-30 13:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211829300 19sparagesa https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211830944 2017-11-30 13:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211830944 https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211834078 1. "By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising" (Thoreau 217).
2. "Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth" (Thoreau 218). 
3. "Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged?" (Thoreau 219). ]]> 2017-11-30 13:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211834078 https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211836080 2017-11-30 13:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211836080 19sparagesa https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211836251 - views and thoughts on nature in general and how it can show us to be calm and similar to the creatures that live
- comparison to ants in battle with real life
- observations of the loons and their life in nature interests Thoreau
-almost poetic way that Thoreau writes about the woods ]]> 2017-11-30 13:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211836251 https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211836996 2017-11-30 13:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211836996 19sparagesa https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211838595 - He is interested in the way ants live 
- He is very happy with a simple, easy life 
- He thinks that the way loons live is extremely interested 
- He sees ants as fighters in a battle and that it is similar to the way humans interact 
- He believes that the light is greater than the darkness ]]> 2017-11-30 13:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/211838595 https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/212118475 1. Thoreau was clearly very influenced by nature and the world around him.
2. He valued doing things himself, such as building his house and creating his gardens.
3. He didn't mind living a life very different from that of a towns-person. 
4. He was extremely hardworking and I can see how this lifestyle would be a lot of work, but he chose to live it. ]]> 2017-12-01 00:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/212118475 https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/212119209 -Thoreau bought his house from an Irishman named James Collins
-He spent a total of $28.12 1/2 on repairing the house
-He did most of the repairs himself
-He moved in on the 4th of July
-His lot is around eleven acres]]> 2017-12-01 00:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/212119209 https://padlet.com/alr2/73s9oitra0ct/wish/212119745

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