Thoreau Resources
Walden and Civil Disobedience
YouTube
Thoreau & Individualism and Transcendentalism, emphasis on Civil Disobedience, Part 1 (9 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGdreCP6shU&feature=related
Thoreau & Individualism part 2 (references Winthrop’s community)(9:10): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV4YHOjJLDk&feature=channel_page
Thoreau & Individualism, Part 3 (8:43): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66e7ufanX4&feature=channel_page
Introduction with good interpretation, both Walden and “Civil Disobedience” (4 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhP7PKoRmmY&feature=related
Photographs and quotations focused on observation of nature (6 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Quw_RPB0U
Thoreau-civil-disobedience-annotated.doc
Thoreau-civil-disobedience-annotated.pdf
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Character Education
Using literature to teach character
Teaching Character Education Through Literature http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=4ZhMMCqPDdkC&dq=karen+bohlin+character+literature&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=s40TEZ3Woo&sig=df9sRHvlaS7Ec9iuQB-qp_pnWQs
High School Reading List: http://www.bu.edu/sed/caec/files/booklisths.htm
Call to Greatness Lesson plan: http://www.bu.edu/sed/caec/documents/calltogreatness.pdf
Divides class into teams of 4: each team has a binder, each keeps a section of bulletin board
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Separate Peace resources
teaching the novel
Photo essay of Philips Exeter
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Brave New World resources
units and texts
Study guides to Brave New World
San Diego County teaching activities for Brave New World
Discussion Group guide for Brave New World
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Reading List for High School
Compiled from various lists
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Diary of a Youth Girl, Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Chose, Chaim Potok
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1984, George Orwell
My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Autobiography of Miss Jean Pittman
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee Harper
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Ultimate Teen Reading List
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