A Life in the Woods

Vocabulary words:

• debris

  indicated

  generations

  sheer

• spectacular

  emphasis

  naturalist

  encounter

Henry saw that squirrels were able to run up the _____ side of the cabin

Henry Thoreau became a __________ from all the time he spent at Walden Pond

When Thoreau left his noisy house, he shut the door with ________

People thought Henry Thoreau _________ he liked being alone by moving to the woods

The people loved the ___________ performance

The woods is covered in ______ like leaves, sticks and fur

Henry had an _________ with a loon at Walden Pond

My mother and my grandmother come from different ___________

Why did Emerson let Henry build the cabin?

• Emerson is also interested in nature

• Henry's house is too noisey

• So Henry could write his book

• So Henry could see a loon