I thought that my days of field trips and schools buses had ended when I entered college. I was misled.
Today I visited Lake Walden and Concord, Mass. as part of a course on Thoreau. My professors — there’s three for this particular class — read passages from Walden as we stood at the shores of the book’s namesake lake where Thoreau wrote this famous American novel. I’ve studied many works of literature in high school, but I never traveled with an English class to explore the setting of a book. I think that the experience will make Walden seem less dry and more personal when I actually begin to read the book later in the course.
This experience just comes to show that you’re never too old to have a field trip. Even if you’re in college.
What a great experience for you to get some more insight into what Thoreau was influenced by. fortunately for you, you aren’t reading “War and Peace”, “Call of the Wild” or “Into Thin Air”
Comment by iscooldad — September 15th, 2009 @ 9:47 pm