American Voice Definition and Authors We've Read...

Post your group's definition (and associated ideas) of American Voice as a comment in Schoology.  Once every group has posted, read through them and create a working definition of American Voice by compiling the important points from everyone's definitions.  Use that as your definition while working as a group on the next point...

Your group has been assigned an author/authors.  *Dickinson and Bradstreet (Alaina's), Whitman (Dani's), Thoreau and Emerson (Joe's and Jami's), William Carlos Williams and other modern poets (Kalvin's and Thorne's)

You need to find the notes/information you have on that author/authors and answer these questions about their American Voice.  Make sure one of you types up the answers as a comment to the assignment on Schoology, but all of you write it down in your notes.

*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? 

Once you have posted these ideas, work on your current poet research.