Unit 2: Unit 2: Whitman Poetry, Influence, and Impact

Students will know how to:
-Explore Whitman’s cultural and historical context and his influence on later writers.
-Practice gathering textual evidence to make observations about a poem’s content, themes, structure, and form.
-Identify and analyze structural units of a poem (e.g., section, stanza, sentence, line).
-Engage in discussions based on observations.

Students will engage in material presented by Arizona State University and the Equity Lab. Students will be required to:
-Watch video lectures/discussions from Professor New and others
-Read assigned material including informational texts, and poetry reading packets (approx. 60 minutes).
-Complete the annotation assignment in which they must annotate a poem for theme, structure, and elements of city life.
-Take a quiz on unit material

Student will demonstrate their learning by:

• Taking the unit quiz (7-8 Questions- 2 hour time limit once opened)
• Annotations of poem (assessed by TA using the summative discussion post rubric on the course Canvas page)