Dear Librarians, Curriculum Specialists, Media Specialists and Department Chairs:

The Thoreau DVD Life With Principle is ready for classrooms and libraries now.

Click here to order. You can order it online on this website. The $250 price includes the full site license for your school.

Producer Melvyn Hopper to brings Thoreau's ideas into this century and into your classrooms in an engaging new way combining the best of the present and the past; Thoreau's comments and our concerns.

It has been helped in every step of the way by  teachers, curriculum and media specialists, scholars and students of every kind. The DVD aligns with curriculum guidelines for Literature, History, Social Studies, Science, Government and Environmental Studies.

We have organized all components of the DVD package into six sections which correspond to six major areas in Thoreau's observations about individuals, society and nature:

• Hearing that Different Drummer
• Being Awake, Aware, and Alive
• Examining Desperate and Deliberate Lives
• Living in Society
• Living in Nature
• Confronting the Mean and the Sublime

You will be able to navigate between the contemporary film and all the other special features on the menu, following the path you choose. That is very much in the spirit of this independent minded American author.

You can follow one thematic trail from the film through the corresponding exercises and background materials. Links are embedded in all the components to make connections easier and reference specific aspects of the curriculum, documentary, commentary and animation that help to form the bridges between Thoreau's ideas and current situations described in the film.

Life With Principle: FILM COMPONENTS

LIFE WITH PRINCIPLE: THOREAU'S VOICE IN OUR TIME allows for great flexibility in teaching and programming. This film can be viewed in its entirety in 56 minutes. Because it is divided into six thematic sections, it can also be used one section at a time along with the corresponding sections from the Study Guide and Thoreau Curriculum. Each section contains a short introduction about Thoreau's ideas and contemporary interviews to spur discussion about the significance of those ideas for our own lives and choices.

Hearing that Different Drummer; Being Awake, Aware, and Alive;
Examining Desperate and Deliberate Lives; Living in Society; Living in Nature; Confronting the Mean and the Sublime

	BONUS FEATURES
	THOREAU'S CONCORD/WALDEN POND, an historical documentary, is organized into the same six thematic sections. This gives historical background for each and provides a visual introduction to the author's home town - 12 minutes
	PROFILES IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE examines how Maathai in Kenya, Makiguchi in Japan and Mandela in South Africa have used this philosophy and practice to confront injustice - 12 minutes
	WORLD LEADERS demonstrates the impact of Thoreau's ideas on Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, Mandela, and Ikeda - 4 minutes
	THE BOAT MEN, BILL AND BEN is an animated short which encompasses six thematic vignettes, one around each of the six sections. They combine to make a surprising story as a center for conversation, dealing with two markedly different lifestyles.

Life With Principle: DVD-ROM CONTENT

THE STUDY GUIDE is intended to give you an overall plan for integrating all the rest of the material on this DVD: film footage, current text, and historical documents. It follows the sequence of the film and the numbers given by each entry (13:45) refer to the time elapsed on the Life With Principle film. We will point to particular places in the other components of the DVD where you will find projects and information keyed to that part of the film.

THE THOREAU CURRICULUM is organized into the same six thematic sections as the Life With Principle film. The Curriculum provides you with a framework for connecting Thoreau's writings to the issues and questions introduced in the interviews and footage in the main film. Each of the six thematic sections is organized into the following areas: Preparation; Investigation; Reflection and Interpretation; Expression and Action:

a. Hearing that Different Drummer
b. Being Awake, Aware, and Alive
c. Examining Desperate and Deliberate Lives
d. Living in Society
e. Living in Nature
f. Confronting the Mean and the Sublime

THE SCHOLAR'S COMMENTARY: Thoreau Scholar Bradley P. Dean (1954-2006) wrote this summary of Thoreau's ideas related to each theme to accompany the film and other teaching resources. Dr. Dean published numerous scholarly articles on Henry David Thoreau. His three books were Faith in a Seed and Wild Fruits, both edited from Thoreau's manuscripts, and Letters to a Spiritual Seeker, a collection of Thoreau's letters to H.G.O. Blake.

THE THOREAU SOCIETY BULLETINS
This publication of the Thoreau Society contains sixty years of articles about Thoreau's life, literature, legacy and the landscapes that inspired them. Educators from the Society have compiled a list of the best selections for classroom use.

THOREAU'S WRITINGS
This link brings you an alphabetical listing of Thoreau's key works that you can download.

LIFE WITH PRINCIPLE WEBSITE: www.lifewithprinciple.org

This site allows teachers, students, librarians, media specialists, and program facilitators to do further investigations, and collect additional resources, as we continually add to the supplementary materials and links. It will give you the ability to share ideas for approaches and activities with people all over the world.

The cost for the complete package, with all the features described above, is $250. This provides a full site license for your school.

Order online at http://www.lifewithprinciple.org/