Into the Wild

Into the Wild by John Krakaeur - Audiobook available in the CHS library.

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Short Fiction (choose 1)

• "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
• "To Build a Fire" by Jack London

Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

• "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed" by Emily Dickinson
• "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" by Emily Dickinson
• "A Man Said to the Universe" by Stephen Crane
• "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
• "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman (teacher selected)
• "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
• "The Tyger" by William Blake
• "To a Young Lady" by William Wordsworth
• "To the Daisy" by William Wordsworth To the Daisy 2 To the Daisy 3 To the Daisy 4
• "A Thing of Beauty" by John Keats (from Endymion)
• "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
• "Child Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord George Gordon Byron Canto 2 Canto 3 Canto 4
• "When the Levee Breaks" by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie (lyrics) Original audio

Multimedia

• "Dead Poet's Society" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• "Avatar" (film) - Available in the CHS library

Historical Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

• "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau (teacher selected)
• "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
• "Respect" by Chief Seattle (speech)
• Excerpt from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - Available in the CHS library
• "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

• "The Fixed" excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• "The Slow Awakening" excerpt from The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
• "The Quiver of a Shrub in California" by Vaclav Havel

Multimedia

• "Into the Wild" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• Media Clip from the National Park Service
• "An Inconvenient Truth" (film) - Available in the CHS library

The library also recommends:

Documentaries/Movies:

• 127 Hours (library does not own)
• All is Lost (library does not own)
• Return to the Wild: The Chris Mccandless Story
• The Martian

Short Videos:

"Did Jon Krakaeur Finally Solve 'Into the Wild' Mystery?" NPR story (transcript or 8 minute audio interview)

Websites:

Articles:

Books:

• Into Thin Air by John Krakaeur
• The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
• The Raft by Stephanie Bodeen
• The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Martian by Andy Weir