28 January 2015 To-Do List
Pull out your Walt Whitman/Emily
Dickinson packets from Monday.
For homework, you should have
read all of the poems and answered
these 3 questions on the back of the
packet:
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What poem(s) did you like and why?
What poem(s) did you not like and why?
Pick two quotes from the poems that
speak to ideas you are familiar with or
connect with. Explain why for each of the
two quotes.
Turn your packet to the back page, with
your answers, for me to come around
and check your work. While I check,
DISCUSS your answers with your
partners.
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Opening Discussion and Powerpoint
○ Transcendentalism vs. Realism
○ Walt Whitman: His life and his poetry
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Begin annotating “Song of Myself”
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Alternative Reading Time
Homework
Finish annotating “Song of Myself” and “Dirge for
Two Veterans” on your own for homework. Answer
the questions for both poems in the packet.
● Be working on the ACT practice test! “Worse
Than Algebra” section DUE TOMORROW for
Path #2 students!!
29 January 2015 To-Do List
FOR STUDENTS WHO SELECTED PATH #2
FOR ACT PRACTICE: Your first page of the
test is due today! Each question should
be answered; should be labelled N, L, or
X; and should be annotated if necessary.
Pull out your Whitman annotations for
“Song of Myself” and “Dirge for Two
Veterans.” Grab a pack of colored
pencils for your group from the front.
Underline your annotations for both
poems with different colors:
● Blue: Ideas or themes
● Green: Technical devices (Symbols,
repetitions, poetic devices, etc.)
● Red: Any other observations or
connections you made with the poems
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ACT Q-and-A Session: Taming the
Comma
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Annotate “Song of Myself” as a
whole-class
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Annotate “Dirge for Two Veterans”
as a whole class, using teacher and
student annotations
○ Intro with Whitman’s journal
entries (video)
Homework
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Complete the Venn Diagram for
Transcendentalism and Realism. DUE
tomorrow!
Answer the questions for Whitman’s 2
poems in the packet! DUE tomorrow!
Be working on the ACT Practice Test!
30 January 2015 To-Do List
When you come in, OPEN your packet to
Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” so I can
come around and check the questions and
your answers for BOTH Whitman poems.
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“Transcendentalism vs. Realism” game
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Annotate “Dirge for Two Veterans” as a
whole class, using teacher and student
annotations
○ Intro with Whitman’s journal entries
(video)
Then GRAB 3 different sticky notes from the
● PowerPoint: Emily Dickinson (Her life and
stacks at the front of the room for yourself.
her poetry)
● One should be blue.
● One should be pink.
● Alternative Reading Time
● One should be green.
Homework
STUDY your Venn diagram for the first
● Complete the “If Death stopped for you…”
minute of class. After that, you will turn the
worksheet. DUE Monday!!
● Answer the questions for Dickinson’s “Because
Venn diagram in and we will begin a
I could not stop for Death” in your packet!
“Transcendentalism vs. Realism” game.
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DUE Monday!!
Be working on the ACT practice test! PATH #2
Students: Next section DUE MONDAY!!