According to Henry David Thoreau’s essay Walden, “To be awake is to be alive” (1855). However, Americans aren’t awake; they are stuck in the state of sleep because of how they choose to live their life. In order to achieve the wakefulness Thoreau identifies life with, Americans need to make changes to their lifestyle. In ...
Knowing how to enrich your lesson plans can help you to turn a boring and ineffective teaching session into the kind of lesson plan that you and your students will want to revisit in the future. Learning to enrich your lesson plan requires nothing more than creatively applying a few of the central principles drawn ...
In the modern romantic age literature moves toward an exploration of feelings. Ancient and Classical texts tended to focus on the questions of why are we? Medieval texts tended to explore where will we end up? In the Renaissance and Early Modern times texts moved to questions of the individual, how they think, and how ...
Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn Circling above the hamlets as they nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou ...
Chapter 3 of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is entitled “Reading,” and aptly so. The chapter describes Thoreau’s reading habits during the two years that he spent at Walden Pond. However, it is not a chronicle of what Thoreau read during that time, but it is instead a philosophical investigation into why and how reading is ...