Great Books: Walden (Discovery Channel) - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. "slow down and learn to do with less"
2. cabin: only 1.5 miles away from "civilization"
3. calls John Brown "angel of light"
4. his rejected marriage proposal
5. Concord: "anti-slavery hotbed"
6. Emerson's ridicule for Thoreau's $1.50 'debt'
7. brother John's lockjaw (shaving)
8. "left busy, competitive world behind him"
9. Free!
10. Thoreau: find God through nature
11. "...to live in it, good or bad"
12. 15 years before Civil War
13. "Thoreau clutter" in Concord
14. father ran a successful pencil business
15. "enjoy world" vs. setting it "straight"
16. "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"
17. the Walden Woods Project
18. "railroad tracks ran past" him
19. in jail..."for a few hours"
20. MLK, Jr. read Thoreau in college
21. "starting place for reform is yourself"
22. Walden: 17 chapters w/ simple headings
23. Emerson: Thoreau's friend and mentor
24. 1960s hippies saw him as "hero"
25. "spiritual journey in search of self"