https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017 en-us 2017-03-13 20:14:21 UTC 2026-02-06 16:21:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159819056 2017-03-13 20:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159819056 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159819315 by Walt Whitman]]> 2017-03-13 20:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159819315 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159820167 Text-dependent questions for "O Captain! My Captain!":
1. Who is the narrator of this poem? What is (his) mood in the first stanza?  What evidence from the text supports your analysis and thinking?
2. In the second stanza, one phrase is repeated 5 times. What is it? Why do you think Whitman chose to repeat this phrase? What effect does it create?
3. Does “the swaying mass” ever learn what the narrator has known since the first stanza? How do you know?
4. If you had to describe this poem’s mood(s) with two adjectives, what would they be? Explain. If you had to go down to just a one word description of the overall mood, what one word would you pick? Why? 
5. Rewrite the last four lines in your own words. Compare your paraphrase to others and discuss them. ]]> 2017-03-13 20:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159820167 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159821321 Library of Congress Appendix]]> 2017-03-13 20:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159821321 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159821868 Text-dependent questions for Library of Congress Appendix:
1. What was ironic about the timing of when President Lincoln was assassinated? 
2. Why does the article say Whitman wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”? 
3. What evidence does the article provide that would allow the author to call America as a “shattered nation” in the third paragraph? ]]> 2017-03-13 20:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159821868 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159822958 Pre-Writing: Reading the PROMPT; then, open this image to enlarge it and create a pre-writing organizer to prepare your thoughts and writing in your writer's notebook.]]> 2017-03-13 20:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159822958 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159823523 Culminating Writing Task Prompt-

“O Captain! My Captain!” is about a real event and a real person in American history. Explain who the poem was written to honor and what event inspired Whitman to write it. Then track how the poem captured the feelings of a whole nation.

 

More explanation: Now that you have studied and understood “O Captain! My Captain!” you are going to analyze it by using your other piece of evidence. Use the appendix essay to explain why Walt Whitman wrote the poem, and who he wrote it for.  After re-reading the first three paragraphs of that article, write a short essay that explains what the historical events were that were mirrored in “O Captain! My Captain!” Explain how the real life example of “triumph overshadowed by despair” as the Library of Congress article put it (paragraph 3) are represented in the poem. 

]]> 2017-03-13 20:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159823523 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159824046 QUIZ on the poem and short story we read this week!! Also, be prepared for a writing prompt concerning O Captain! and Gary Keillor story.]]> 2017-03-13 20:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159824046 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159824224 Writing into the Day:
What is a literary analysis and what should be included in this type of response?
-Classwork: Read and annotate the two texts for today. Take turns reading it aloud, in small group, and independently. 
-Then, answer questions below independently or with a partner.]]> 2017-03-13 20:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159824224 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159825444 Writing into the Day:
Read the first sentence (stanza one). What does exulting mean? Who is exulting, and where are they?
Classwork: Answer the 2nd set of questions independently by referring to yesterday's appendix article. 
-Next, read and annotate the poem (below- right), "I Hear America Singing". Answer the correlating questions.
-Then, we will have a Socratic Seminar to compare and contrast your answers and reasoning from today.]]> 2017-03-13 20:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159825444 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159827733 Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

]]> 2017-03-13 20:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159827733 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159829610 1. Compare the writing styles of the two poems: the rhyme scheme and the rhythm. What do you notice? 
2. How are they different? 
3. How do these differences impact the moods of the poems?  ]]> 2017-03-13 21:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159829610 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159829939 "O Captain! My Captain!" is organized into three eight-line stanzas, each with an AABBCDED rhyme scheme.]]> 2017-03-13 21:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/159829939 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161503529

2. Write down which poem you like best, why, and a golden line that resonates with you. Speak about that line and what you like about it.

]]> 2017-03-21 14:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161503529 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161508204 2017-03-21 14:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161508204 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161791980 Describe the role of patriotism in Whitman's poetry. Give textual evidence.]]> 2017-03-22 12:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161791980 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161792124 -Writing into the Day
- Golden Lines in either poem
- Discuss the significance of the all-encompassing "I" in Whitman's poetry. Think-Pair-Share
- Read today's short story and discuss.
-Closure: Exit quiz. :)]]> 2017-03-22 12:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/161792124 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/162121546 #1 Assignment- Complete this in your writer's notebook. Circle the evidence you used in your essay (meaning more than a paragraph).]]> 2017-03-23 13:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/162121546 purvis7thgradeELA https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/162122576 #2 Assignment:
Write a paragraph that states that “the captain” is an extended metaphor for Abraham Lincoln and that “the trip” is an extended metaphor for the civil war. Explain your rationale for both of these metaphors using textual evidence and circle the evidence you use.]]> 2017-03-23 13:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/purvis7thgradeELA/March20_24_2017/wish/162122576