Unit 4: Whitman and Dickinson
Thursday, February 22
- Unit test on Classroom
- ASVAB Testing
- Assignment on "Her sweet weight on my Heart a Night" through Classroom
- Assignment on "I like to see it lap the miles" through Classroom
- Assignment on "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" through Classroom
- Assignment on "We grow accustomed to the Dark" through Classroom
- Revision of personal essays on Classroom
- Assignment on "I'm nobody! Who are you?" through Classroom
- Library day: No assignment
- Vocabulary exercises on paper
- Absent students will need to pick up the assignments when they return to class.
- Assignment on "There's a certain Slant of light" through Classroom
- Assignment on "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" through Classroom
- Assignment on "A Bird, came down the Walk" through Classroom
- Assignment on "Because I could not stop for death" through Classroom
- Personal essay on Classroom
- Library day: No assignment
- AMI day two - descriptive writing assignment on Classroom
- AMI day one - video: Emily Dickinson biography (on Classroom)
- Snow day four
- Walt Whitman parody assignment on Classroom
- Third quarter book talk assigned - due March 7
- "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" reading and assignment through Classroom
- Snow Day 3
- Snow day two
- "O Captain, My Captain" reading and assignment through Classroom
- "The Wound-Dresser" reading and assignment through Classroom
- Snow day one
- "World Below the Brine" reading and assignment through Classroom
- Review of Romanticism and Transcendentalism
- "Song of Myself" reading and assignment through Classroom
- Response to "The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port" on Classroom
- Discussion of free verse
- "I Hear America Singing" reading and assignment through Classroom
- Reading of "Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the War that Changed Poetry, Forever" on Classroom