Good morning everyone,

Yesterday we read some of Thoreau’s Walden and you had the opportunity to reflect on how you felt about the text. Today we are going to finish up the last piece of the text and complete one more quick writing exercise.

Then I want you to select something you wrote in your English Journal during your quick writes and explain what you meant by it. Copy and paste the excerpt into today’s journal entry.

Next read the following quotes from Thoreau’s Walden:

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves…the surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels…”

“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away…”

Choose ONE quote to copy and paste into your English Journal and explain what it means.