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Students create their own version of Whitman's poem, I Hear America Singing. After students have discussed the poem and the characteristics of a list or catalog poem, they create their own version of the poem. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students describe one aspect of Whitman's poetics in relation to I Hear America Singing, and make a comparison between Langston Hughes' goal in Let America Be America Again and Whitman's in I Hear America Singing. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine Whitman's artistic practice. They compose poetry modeled on the poet's characteristic method of using the notebooks as a source of the personal experience and universal themes explored in his poems. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students explore Walt Whitman and about poetry. Most importantly, it teach them that poetry is something anyone can write and encourage them to tell the story of their own community in verse Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students analyze historic events and concepts recorded in Whitman's poems. They examine conditions in Civil War hospitals and the poet's reactions to those conditions. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how Walt Whitman's poetry combines universal themes with personal experience and feeling. They read and evaluate poems by Walt Whitman, conduct Internet research, complete a chart, and compose an original poem. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read various poetic works of Walt Whitman and Langston Hughs. They discuss the effect of early photography as it relates to Whitman's poetry. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students read and analyze Walt Whitman's poem, "Leaves of Grass." They compare/contrast Whitman's style to artist Takamori's style, and write an original poem about their childhood and fond memories. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students develop a strong, meaningful understanding of the American Transcendentalists. They read a variety of important works by Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson and write about and discuss these works thoroughly. They read a number of short pieces on the nature of improvised jazz and write about and discuss these short pieces, and they will consider the common ground the pieces share with the writing of Whitman and Emerson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use guiding questions to provide context for the completing of various activities to research the poetry of Walt Whitman. The students take the knowledge of this lesson and use it in order to compose a personal poem. Full Review »