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Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman Unit PlanGa Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman Unit Plan
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Georgia Department of Education
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Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman

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This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Walt Whitman and his invention of the American free verse. It includes links to his poems "Song of Myself" and "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." It provides biographical information about Whitman and a quiz over "Song of Myself."

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