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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

Civil Disobedience Seminar

Walden curriculum materials

Thoreau-civil-disobedience-annotated.doc

Thoreau-civil-disobedience-annotated.pdf

Posted by Michael L Umphrey on 12/25 at 12:40 PM
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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

Posted by Michael L Umphrey on 11/18 at 04:58 PM
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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

Posted by Michael L Umphrey on 11/18 at 03:43 PM
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