First Block:
*Bell Ringer: Presentations,
take notes
*American
Voices groups:
*What is the
American voice: your group needs a few different ideas/definitions/aspects to
definition
*Dickinson and
Bradstreet, Whitman, Thoreau and Emerson, William Carlos Williams and other
modern poets
*Overall
Question: How does their writing exemplify the (or an) American voice?
*How does their
writing show America at their point in time?
*What does
their writing say about people and society?
*Thinking of
all, what aspect(s) of America are not reflected with the voices so far?
*BOOKS WITH FRIENDS
half way check Friday, so use time if
you have it
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*Fourth Block:
*American
Voices groups:
*What is the
American voice: your group needs a few different ideas/definitions/aspects to definition
*Write up on
white board (also write on a sheet of paper for tomorrow)
*American
Voices answers
*Current Poets
Research: Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marilyn Hacker, Dana Gioia, Jack
Kerouac, Pedro Pietri, Marc Smith,
Taylor Mali, Robert Pinsky, Li Young, AND LOTS MORE TO CHOOSE FROM
*Research and
Work Time
*We will
present the Modern Poems tomorrow and discuss how the authors we’ve read so far
show the American Voice (when everyone is here for the whole block…)
*BOOKS WITH
FRIENDS half way check Friday, so use time if you have it
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