What to address in your two written responses

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What to address in your two written responses
(one for each poem you are assigned)
For both poems
Due Monday, 21 Feb

• Identify the topic/theme
• Identify three poetic devices used
• Define the devices
• What effect do they create?
• Most important line?
• A word choice you find confusing?
• Your interpretation
• Compare/Contrast between your two poems (you just
  need to do this once)
• Any connections with other poems you read or
  talked about?
• Dickinson Concrete image (a fly) -gt Abstract
  idea (insignificance of human life)?
• Dickinson Human awareness as finite or
  infinite? (whats the context)
• Whitman Find words/details/images that
  characterize his attitude
• Whitman What is he celebrating and what
  ideas/topics is using as examples?

Write your two assigned poems here Dickinson
Whitman My partner
For Dickinson
For Whitman
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Dickinson and Whitman Project Due Monday, 21 Feb

• Option 1 - Illustration
• Choose one of the 20 poems we read it must be
  different than the poems you were responsible for
  in your groups
• Complete a TPCASTT worksheet
• Choose an image, metaphor, simile or overall tone
  of the poem and illustrate it using that image/
  metaphor/simile/tone as the central image of your
  illustration
• Include the title and poet
• Include at least one line from the poem that
  inspired your illustration
• You may choose to draw, paint, or use magazine
  clippings
• Type at least one paragraph to accompany the
  illustration explaining your choices and citing
  the source material from the poem that inspired
  the illustration

• Option 2 - Analysis
• On the website are posted the text to Whitmans
  America and Pioneers! O Pioneers! as well as
  an article from Slate magazine
• View the Levis commercials again and analyze the
  choice of images in the commercial (use the
  hyperlinks at the top of the article)
• Your analysis should be compared to the language
  in the poems
• The article has the links to the commercials that
  we watched
• You must also discuss whether you think that
  these commercials are true to Whitmans message
• Your response should be 1-2 typed pages

• The written components should be formatted using
  MLA (remember, poetry is different)
• Include a Works Cited reference line on the
  typed page

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Poetry Teams (You have two poems)

1. Because I could not stop for death Ashley, Matt
   O.
2. I heard a Fly buzz when I died Mariah,
   Shannon / Vu, Ryder, Matt F.
3. Theres a certain slant of light Eljah, Wayne
4. My life closed twice before its close Jasmine,
   Sean
5. The Soul selects her own society Erin R. ,
   Thomas
6. The Brain is wider than the sky Sasha, Cody
7. There is a solitude of space Danni, Mark
8. Water is taught by thirst Will, Alex S. /
   Drayke, Ryan
9. (67) Success is counted sweetest Taylor, Erin
   C.
10. (501) This World is not Conclusion Becca, Scott
11. (327) Before I got my eye put out Joey,
    Alexander V.
12. Song of Myself Mariah, Shannon / Taylor, Erin C
13. When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer Ashley,
    Matt O.
14. By the Bivouacs Fitful Flame Vu, Ryder, Matt
    F.
15. I Hear America Singing Jasmine, Sean / Danni,
    Mark
16. A Noiseless Patient Spider Erin R. , Thomas /
    Becca, Scott
17. To a Locomotive in Winter Will, Alex S.
18. An Army Corps on the March Joey, Alexander V.
19. Cavalry Crossing a Ford Drayke, Ryan

Dickinson
Whitman
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Poetry Groups

• Group 1
• Ashley
• Mariah
• Vu
• Elijah
• Jasmine
• Erin R.
• Sasha
• Danni
• Will
• Ryan
• Taylor
• Becca
• Joey

• Group 2
• Matt O.
• Shannon
• Ryder
• Matt F.
• Wayne
• Sean
• Thomas
• Cody
• Mark
• Alex S.
• Drayke
• Erin
• Scott
• Alexander V.