A Life in the Woods

What was the effect of Thoreau walking out of town?

• Thoreau was able to take more pictures.

• Thoreau was able to write his book.

• Thoreau was able to escape his family.

• Thoreau was able to tell more people how to slam a door.

Read the sentence: He listened to the rustling of the leaves. What if I could stay here, he thought. What does the homograph leaves mean as it is used in the sentence?

• Thoreau left his house.

• A seed that you plant in the woods.

• Something that grows on trees.

• What you do when you get mad and walk out of a room.

What distractions made it difficullt for Thoreau to live in his family's home?

• The noise of all the animals.

• He could hear people talking in the next room and he could not concentrate.

• He did not like his family.

• The noise of all the vehicles in the street made it hard to focus.

What did Thoreau do with the land Emmerson gave him?

• He allowed family members to come visit him.

• He allowed animals to come live with him.

• He build a cabin that he could live in.

• He gave it away to another friend.

What visitors did Thoreau receive at the cabin?

• His family came to visit him often.

• Animals that lived in the woods.

• Emmerson, his friend to gave him the land.

• People who lived in a nearby cabin came to visit him.

What clues help you define recorded in the sentence below?

Thoreau recorded these experiences in his journal.

• In his journal.

• These experiences

• Thoreau recorded

• There is no answer to this question

What caused Thoreau to keep paddling from place to place?

• He was trying to get more exercise

• He was trying to catch fish for dinner

• He got lost while on the lake and could not find his way home

• He was trying to reach the loon but it kept moving

What did Thoreau learn about the animals while at Walden Pond?

• He learned that some of them are funny and tricky animals

• The animals used special skills to stay alive

• He learned that the animals were better company than his familly

• He learned animals cannot be trusted

Why did the author compare Thoreau to geese?

• Because it helps me understand that since geese leave their home and go back when they are ready, so did Thoreau

• It helps me understand how and why Thoreau loved these birds

• It helps me understand that birds like geese can teach us all a lesson

• It helps me understand that we can all move where we want to in life

What effect did Thoreau's time at Walden Pond have on his writing?

• Thoreau was not able to write all of his book because he was distracted by the animals

• Thoreau was able to collect the journal entries he wrote while staying there and turned them into a book.

• Thoreau understood he could have written the same book at hom in a quieter room at his family's house

• All things can be accompolished when you move to the woods.