Write 1/2 explaining what Thoreau is saying in one of these two examples:
Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs"--Emerson

Roger's penknife

Where do you take issue with Thoreau? You don't have to agree with him, you know!


"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it" (19);
 "Beware all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes" (14). 

Huckleberry Finn Vocabulary
1-10 for Thur/Friday
CRUCIBLE TEST Next Thursday/Friday
Thur. Dec. 8/Friday Dec. 9 you will  have 45 to read Huckleberry Finn OR to take the optional Crucible test. Since many of you didn't do well on the Scarlet Letter test (a gross understatement in many cases!), I am giving you the opportunity to take this test in an attempt to get more points. The two scores will be averaged.
You might want to CHECK OUT THE BOOK TODAY (your choice, of course)
WALDEN POSTER DUE THUR/FRI 

2. Walden Journal entries--December 5th
Compile 25 significant quotes
Write 1/2+ page response to a quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1/2+ page response to a second quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
Write 1+ page response to one quote explaining what point Thoreau is making (about life/about people, etc.) 
You may not use one of these quotes for your  Walden Poster.
Walden Poster due Thur December 1st/Friday 2nd
3.
Changing Education Paradigms, by Sir Kenneth Robinson
"Our educational system is based on the assembly line factory model of the Industrial Revolution."