For Monday's and Tuesday's Classes, on April 21 & 22

Please read Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for."  It's in LOC, pp. 276-281.  The essay is actually an excerpt from Thoreau's larger book, Walden (1854), an account of the two and a half years Thoreau spent living in a small cabin on Walden Pond, outside Concord, MA.

This essay is also published in many places online.  Google on 'Thoreau' 'Walden' and 'Chapter 2' and you will find it.

Here's a link:  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/hdt02.html    Scroll down to about the half-way point, where he writes, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."  Start reading at that point and finish the document.

Also, just to say:  it might help to SparkNote this (i.e., Walden, Ch. 2).  The notes will tell you, in brief, what he's talking about.  Then, however, please read it.

We'll write I-CE #3 on Tuesday and return to Walden on Wednesday.