Wednesday, Dec. 4 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Explication Presentation Explanation 
• Multimodal links (more than just the words), digital presentation (images, sounds, videos, etc)
• Tie to images (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.), cultural connections and allusions, meanings, connected biographical points, unfamiliar words
• You are helping your audience fully understand all of the aspects of the poem by linking to images, sounds, video clips, articles, etc that give a better understanding 
• American Voice and authors we’ve read (my blog)
• Dickinson, Bradstreet, Thoreau/Emerson, Whitman, 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? 
• American Voice Definition: on Google Classroom
• Explication check and Presentation work time
• Make sure you have consulted the rubric and have labeled everything for me to understand
• All three poems (explicated and organized in a way to assist my assessment of them) should be done by Monday, as well as the presentation
• BAL Post 4 and comments should be done by now and post 5 is due before it turns to Friday