Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Wednesday, April 5

Homework: for FRIDAY, April 7, read Preface in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (31-40). Complete ONE DEJ note on the text.

Homework check: poems in the style of Whitman. 
Silent reading.
Shared and COLLECTED poems for a grade.

Continued discussing excerpts from Whitman's Song of Myself, including connections to reflection of America's identity and to Transcendentalists. (Will conclude tomorrow.)
Signed out copies of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Began watching The Abolitionists, background for the coming unit.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 5: Whitman parody or homage poem is due.
FRIDAY, April 7: Read Preface in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (31--40). Create 1 DEJ entry.
TUESDAY, April 11: Transcendentalism Test 
Mondays: weekly reading logs are due.

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