Engl 11 11/29/21

Mon, Nov 29, 2021

  • discuss Gettysburg Address and The Second Inaugural Address.

Assignment:

  • Build Background, Journal, Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 305

  • Read "Farewell to the Troops" pg 306 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W) Do Questions pg 309

  • Read Literature Connection "At the Public Market..." pg 307-308 Do ??? 1-3 and Text to Text pg 308

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate Lee's farewell letter

  • understand and analyze purpose and tone.

Tue, Nov 30, 2021

  • Discuss "Farewell to the Troops

Read in class Part 2 -- Lyric Poems pg 315

  • Read Poetry Defined and Lyric Poetry in American Literature pg 316

  • Author Focus -- Walt Whitman

Assignment: from "Preface to Leaves of Grass" and from "I Hear America Singing"

  • Build Background, Journal, Analyze Literature pg 319

  • Read "Leaves of Grass" pg 320-321 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

  • Read "I Hear America Singing" pg 322 Do M&W pg 322 and ??? 1-5 pg 323, Analyze literature ???

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a poetic preface describing what makes a democratic nation and a poem celebrating working people.

  • identify common themes and elements in Whitman's writing.

  • understand and analyze Romanticism and FreeVerse.

Wed, Dec 1, 2021

  • Discuss "Leaves of Grass" and "Hear America Singing"

  • Read Author Focus: Emily Dickinson pg 348

  • Build Background, Journal, Analyze Literature pg 349

Assignment: Poems by Emily Dickinson

  • Build Background, Journal, Meet the Author, Analyze Literature pg 349

  • Read "Much Madness is divinest Sense--" pg 349 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

  • Read "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--" pg 351 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

  • Read "Because I could not stop for Death--" pg 353 Do Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

  • Read "This is my letter to the World" Do M&W pg 354 and ??? 1-5 pg 357

  • Read Dickinson poems pg 358-359 Do ??? 1-3

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to:

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate poems about isolation and death.

  • understand and analyze personification and slant rhyme.

  • identify common themes, subjects, and styles in Dickinson's poems

Thu, Dec 2, 2021

  • Discuss in class all Dickinson Poems pg 349-354

  • Google Classroom: Writing Option (WO) #1 bottom of page 359. Due Mon by midnight

  • Dickinson Short Story Rubric

Fri, Dec 3, 2021

  • No School