28 January 2015 To-Do ListPull out your Walt Whitman/Emily Dickinson packets from Monday. For homework, you should have read all of the poems and answered these 3 questions on the back of the packet:

● What poem(s) did you like and why?

● What poem(s) did you not like and why?

● Pick two quotes from the poems that speak to ideas you are familiar with or connect with. Explain why for each of the two quotes.

Turn your packet to the back page, with your answers, for me to come around and check your work. While I check, DISCUSS your answers with your partners.

● Opening Discussion and Powerpoint○ Transcendentalism vs. Realism○ Walt Whitman: His life and his poetry

● Begin annotating “Song of Myself”

● Alternative Reading Time

HomeworkFinish annotating “Song of Myself” and “Dirge for Two Veterans” on your own for homework. Answer the questions for both poems in the packet.● Be working on the ACT practice test! “Worse

Than Algebra” section DUE TOMORROW for Path #2 students!!

29 January 2015 To-Do ListFOR STUDENTS WHO SELECTED PATH #2 FOR ACT PRACTICE: Your first page of the test is due today! Each question should be answered; should be labelled N, L, or X; and should be annotated if necessary.

Pull out your Whitman annotations for “Song of Myself” and “Dirge for Two Veterans.” Grab a pack of colored pencils for your group from the front. Underline your annotations for both poems with different colors:

● Blue: Ideas or themes● Green: Technical devices (Symbols,

repetitions, poetic devices, etc.)● Red: Any other observations or

connections you made with the poems

● ACT Q-and-A Session: Taming the Comma

● Annotate “Song of Myself” as a whole-class

● Annotate “Dirge for Two Veterans” as a whole class, using teacher and student annotations

○ Intro with Whitman’s journal entries (video)

Homework● Complete the Venn Diagram for

Transcendentalism and Realism. DUE tomorrow!

● Answer the questions for Whitman’s 2 poems in the packet! DUE tomorrow!

● Be working on the ACT Practice Test!

30 January 2015 To-Do List

When you come in, OPEN your packet to Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” so I can come around and check the questions and your answers for BOTH Whitman poems.

Then GRAB 3 different sticky notes from the stacks at the front of the room for yourself.

● One should be blue.● One should be pink.● One should be green.

STUDY your Venn diagram for the first minute of class. After that, you will turn the Venn diagram in and we will begin a “Transcendentalism vs. Realism” game.

● “Transcendentalism vs. Realism” game

● Annotate “Dirge for Two Veterans” as a whole class, using teacher and student annotations

○ Intro with Whitman’s journal entries (video)

● PowerPoint: Emily Dickinson (Her life and her poetry)

● Alternative Reading Time

Homework● Complete the “If Death stopped for you…”

worksheet. DUE Monday!!● Answer the questions for Dickinson’s “Because

I could not stop for Death” in your packet! DUE Monday!!

● Be working on the ACT practice test! PATH #2 Students: Next section DUE MONDAY!!