WorksheetsA Life in the Woods
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 26mins
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.
Describe the effect Thoreau's writing had on Walden Pond itself.
Walden Pond because a protected land
Walden Pond became famous because of the book Thoreau wrote
After Thoreau left the cabin at Walden Pond, all the animals left too
Nothing happened as a result of Thoreau's book
What is a primary source?
A source that retells firsthand informaiton about a topic
A source that provides firsthand information about a topic
A source that interprets information from a primary source
A source that a third party uses to tell about a topic
What is a secondary source?
A source that retells or interprets information from a primary source
A source that provides firsthand information about a topic
A source that others use to tell about someone
A source that you can talk to your firends about
