https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct 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 15:47:22 UTC 2025-11-29 20:11:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png 19carothersk https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211374526 Thoreau is describing how he came to live in a house that he built for himself. First, he explains how he bought a house from a man named James Collins. After he moved in, he began to make his own changes to the house, but later realized that it would be more worth while to build his own house. He makes a list of things he needs and begins to financially plan for his house. He grows crops and sells them to make money for the materials he needs and with his discipline, he determined that he was doing better than any farmer in his area.]]> 2017-11-29 13:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211374526 19christmano https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211375352 Thoreau decided to live in the woods so he could take part in only the essentials of life. His main message is to live simply and only put time into things that matter and are meaningful to life.]]> 2017-11-29 13:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211375352 https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211376647 Thoreau notices a black ant battling with a smaller red one. He connects this to human war. In the Fall, he chases a loon around. The loon outwits him and swims away far enough that Thoreau is unable to catch him. 

Quotes: 
"...the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other" (Thoreau 224). 

Facts/Details
1. The scientific name for loon is "Colymbus glacialis"
2. He talks about the word "Myrmidons" which means "Ant" in Greek.
3. He sees a loon and describes its actions.]]> 2017-11-29 13:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211376647 19christmano https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211379249 Thoreau starts off by talking about his love of rainstorms and a magnificent mark left by a lightning bolt on a pine tree. Many tell Thoreau that he must be lonely living in the woods alone. To Thoreau we are all lonely, living thousands of miles away from other inhabitants in the Milky Way. For him, being around other people does not stop loneliness.]]> 2017-11-29 13:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211379249 https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211380059 Thoreau returns home and reflects on his time in the woods. He talks about the path that his footprints made from his door to the lake and how the ground is so easily conformed by the feet of men. He says that his reason for leaving Walden Pond is the same for going there. He has other lives to live and changes to experience. He wonders why Americans are always in such a hurry to succeed. 

Quotes: 
"I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond side" (Thoreau 227);
"Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spar any more time for that one" (Thoreau 227).

Facts/ Details:
4. He left his cabin
5. He talks about the human need to succeed.

]]> 2017-11-29 13:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211380059 19carothersk https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211382586 2017-11-29 13:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211382586 19christmano https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211382900 Thoreau spent many hours growing and taking care of a seven mile long bean field. Its something he worked deliberately on for day and night and was almost a hobby. ]]> 2017-11-29 13:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211382900 19carothersk https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211383637 2017-11-29 13:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211383637 19carothersk https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211383931 1. "There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest." (Thoreau 219)
2. "I never in all my walks came across a man in so simple and natural an occupation as building his house..."(Thoreau 219)
3. "I got out several cords of stumps in plowing, which supplied me with fuel for a long time, and left small circles of virgin mold, easily distinguishable through the summer by the greater luxuriance of the beans there." (Thoreau 220)]]> 2017-11-29 13:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211383931 19carothersk https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211385165 1. These passages show how Thoreau wanted to live a simple life and be close to nature. He wanted to build his own house because he thought it was the most worth-while way to spend is time.
2. Thoreau is demonstrating how a man can provide for himself from nature. He builds his own house, and his income comes from the plants he grows himself.
3. I like how when Thoreau wants something he goes and gets it. He found all of the materials he needed and made his house.
4.  Thoreau has a good work ethic which is shown when he builds his own house and collects his own materials, for the most part, all on his own.]]> 2017-11-29 13:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211385165 19carothersk https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211385397 1. He paid $4.25 for his house.
2. He made $9 from his crops on his farm and believes he did the best out of all farmers in Concord.
3. He used the wood from the cabin he bought for his new house.
4. He measured out the area of his house and dug himself a cellar.
5. He managed to make his house sturdy and the roof prevented water from going in.]]> 2017-11-29 13:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211385397 19christmano https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211830459 1."This whole earth which we inhabit is a point in space" (Thoreau 221)
2. "I have  found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to another." (Thoreau 222)
3. "Our life is frittered away by detail" (Thoreau 220)]]> 2017-11-30 13:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211830459 19christmano https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211837314 1. I personally do not think living the "simplest" life you can is the best idea. I think that you can have extra things in your life and still be happy.
2. I cannot imagine living outside of society with little to no contact around everyone else. I think even if I was surrounded by nature, I would still need to be around people to not feel alone.
3. Even though we are only a small part in our universe, I still think that socializing and being around people is a good thing.
4. I think finding a hobby, like Thoreau found the been field is important. Its important to put time and energy into something that you care about. I think the bean field shows that Thoreau was a really hard working man because of his attention to detail and the amount of time he put in.]]> 2017-11-30 13:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/211837314 19christmano https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/212106956 1. Thoreau lived as simply as possible
2. His bean plot was seven miles long
3. He was happy being completely alone
4. He had a great fondness for nature
5. He was not happy with modern society]]> 2017-11-30 22:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/alr2/gbw1b0vljdct/wish/212106956