Period 5
Guest teacher POETRY all week
Get The Hobbit by May 7
Monday (2, 4, 6, and 7)
Class Time:
Mail Call: Civil War delivery #1
Walt Whitmam (loved Abe Lincoln; wrote a poem lamenting the loss of the President. He worked helping injured Union soldiers during the war.)
Read “O Captain! My Captain!”
In pairs, translate the poem, identifying the metaphors in the extended metaphor poem.
Hw: find another Civil War poem by Whitman to share tomorrow. Letter #2 is due Wed., typed.
Extra credit: memorize the “O Captain! My Captain!” by Friday. Make appt to recite.
Tuesday
Share poems from homework
Venn Diagram comparing “O Captain! My Captain!” to your found Civil War poem by Walt Whitman
Discuss translations from “O Captain!...”
Discuss “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”
“O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” mini-project due MOnday
Hw: mini project due Monday
Wednesday
Collect letter #1 to be graded (quiz grade)
Read "Passive Agressive" poem
Who is the captain? "O Captain! My Captain!"
Who is the captain? "O Captain! My Captain!"
What rack’s have been weathered?
What is the prize won?
How did the Captain die?
Why was the captain referred to as “Father?”
What motifs are seen throughout the poem?
“Emancipation from Lincoln: A Photobiograpy” pg 552
KWL: Lincoln and Freeing the slaves
Tone
Hw: Write a poem of your own that is similar to Walt Whitman’s style but use the war in Iraq/Afghanistan as the subject.
Thursday
continued from yesterday
Hw: mini-project Monday
Thursday
continued from yesterday
Hw: mini-project Monday
Friday
All classes will not meet on Friday.
Periods 4, 6, and 7 only Reading quiz poem, and short stories all civil War texts thus far
Hw: none Get The Hobbit by May 7
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