Meagan's+Whitman+Workspace


 * I. Results**
 * A. Primary goal: What do you want the students to understand more fully about "Song of Myself"? Frame this as a question. B. Secondary goals: what do you want students to understand about reading poetry? about how to write about poetry? about how to connect text and context?**

What is Whitman translating/interpreting/reading? Who is he translating for? How does he imagine himself (or poets) to be like Champollion, the historian/explorer/surveyer/translator? What role does Whitman imagine for readers? What strategies does he use to encourage this role, or recruit his readers? What is the relationship between poet and reader? Reader and "text"? How do we read poetry? What can poetry do? What does the heroic quest have to do with reading/poetry?

Discipline-related questions: How do we balance reading others' (expert) opinions with thinking/learning for ourselves? Can we follow Whitman's advice?

 eyes of the dead. . . . nor feed on the spectres in books, ||
 * You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the


 * You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, ||


 * You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself. ||

How will students demonstrate that they are answering the question? What will your evidence of student learning look like?** **B. How will this show you that they've learned? how will you evaluate its success or failure in relation to your goals?** generating ideas, then following up/exploring those ideas via their own writing, using evidence from the poem. written reflection on the literary reading strategies they've used in this process (ie, tracing a word or image, attending to intros/conclusions, compare/contrast, etc) in-class discussion curation & explanation of curation
 * II. Evidence of learning

Please see my [|blog] - first check out the [|uniform hieroglyphics] post for context, then my assignment design in the [|translating Whitman into the classroom] post
 * III. Design

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