Outcomes/Activities

At the completion of this module you should

1. Understand the history of the Walden manuscript
2. Understand how a scholarly editor can model an author’s revisions based on manuscript evidence

Dates and Activities

Monday, February 24

Before class

• Read Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”
• Read the pages in the module “Meet the Walden Manuscript.”
• Leave a comment on a paragraph or part of a paragraph in “Where I Lived” responding to anything Thoreau has to say about time or place. (You can take until our next class to leave your comment on “Where I Lived.”)

In class

• Visit with Beth Witherell, Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau.

Class work: In your folder for 2-24, share your journal file for the day with notes on our visit from Dr. Witherell.