The PUTNAM C OUNTY NEWS and RECORDER We are 143 years old but new every Wednesday CXLIII No. 43 www.pcnr.com Wednesday, October 28, 2009 ELECTION SPECIAL see pages 19-22…

1. Washington Irving: American Romanticism 2. Washington Irving 1783-1859 born in New York City (near present-day Wall St.) youngest of 11 children parents were ScottishEnglish…

1. Room 17 Power Point Presentations about Famous People from Massachusetts 2. Henry David Thoreau Jennie Mrs. Thonus Grade 3 - MMEHMCPS 3. Henry David Thoreau was born in…

Slide 1  Sequencing Events Slide 2  BRAINSTORM: Have you heard of any scary stories about a place, town, person, etc… in Clarksville? Slide 3 Sequencing Sequencing…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Does every conflict have a winner? Slide 3 Slide 4 Mini Biography of Irving Washington Irving was born in New York City at the end of the Revolutionary War…

Slide 1 People Of Letters Famous Authors – R.I.P. A Tour of the Final Resting Places of Famous Authors Slide 2 Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord,…

Slide 1 CHAPTER 8 REFORMING AMERICAN SOCIETY Slide 2 Second Great Awakening Reject Calvinism - Unitarianism: Individual responsibility for salvation African American Church…

Slide 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 Slide 2 Slide 3 Childhood Born July 4, 1804 in Salem, MA Father died when Hawthorne was four years old Sent to private school once his…

Slide 1 Henry David Thoreau Lecturer: Hu Lingli Foreign Languages Department Slide 2 That man is the richest whose pleasure is the cheapest. — Henry David Thoreau Slide…

Slide 1 Slide 2 1804-1864 Slide 3 Great-great-grandfather, William Hathorne, ordered the whipping of Anne Coleman and four others in the streets of Salem. Great-grandfather,…