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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students focus on interpreting difficult texts and analyzing the impact these texts can have on their own lives. They think more about who they want to be as individuals, and realize some of the constraints we have due to the real or imagined presence of society. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 12th
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Students express themselves through poetry. They discover the connection between their music and the music of poetry and hear their work and how the sound of a poem or an analytical paper improves their written work. They develop public speaking skills. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students begin the lesson by discussing the causes and effects of the movement west. Using primary sources, they develop their own definition for manifest destiny. In groups, they view examples of paintings and read poems on the topic. They compare and contrast how the idea of manifest destiny is shown through the two mediums. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students produce an object analysis of 'The Champion Single Scull'. They begin with description, proceeding to deduction, and finally providing speculation by interpreting the outward evidence of culture. They use a clipboard and paper to sketch the painting in an effort to recognize line and shapes on the picture plane. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students examine the Latin roots of words before they review the reading strategies known as "Marking Up the Text and HOTS." They paraphrase the Walt Whitman poem entitled, "O Captain! My Captain!" In the fluency section, they practice reading the poem until they can read it fluently, and then they examine unknown vocabulary from the poem. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the United States at the turn of the century. Using primary source documents, they interpret them within a specific historical context. Using this information, they write a poem with metaphors and a specific meter They share their poems with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students read and identify three types of figurative language. They read and analyze "My Father's Body" by Christopher Buckley and "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman, identify the elements of figurative and descriptive language, and write an original poem or short biography. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to a variety of American poets and their works, such as Anne Bradstreet, William Bryant, Henry Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, etc. They are also introduced to non-canonical poems, such as those of Countee Cullen and Wallace Stevens. Pupils are also introduced to a variety of literary and poetic devices, figures of speech, etc. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study transportation in mid-19th-century Brooklyn. They look at several photographs of Brooklyn transport from the era and read Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In addition to making critical observations and comparisons about then and now, students create short original poems ¿¿la Whitman. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students interact with texts. They are given the first four lins of Walt Whitman's poem,' When I heard the learned astronomer'. Students read them and discuss what they think Walt Whitman did when he heard the astronomer. Full Review »
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