LEARNING TARGET:  Be able to explain the ideas in the excerpt of “Civil Disobedience” in your own words.  Particular focus on:

• What Thoreau thinks about the government?
• How the ideas of “Civil Disobedience” are similar to those in the other Transcendental works we’ve studied.
  • “Nature” by Emerson
  • “Self-reliance” by Emerson.
  • “The Learn’d Astronomer” by Whitman
  • “Dead Poet’s Society
  • “Walden” by Thoreau.