Whitman+Assignment

Use the wiki to work on your Whitman assignment.

First, create your own Whitman Assignment page (perhaps titled with your name and WA). Post the link to the page here.

Use this outline to think through and write through your Whitman assignment:

I. **Results** A. Primary goal: What do you want the students to understand more fully about "Song of Myself"? Frame this as a question. Why is this topic important to Whitman? How does this topic connect to other themes or concerns of the poem? How might this topic or question engage students' interest and/or experience? How does this topic or question related to broader issues in literature? How does it relate to broader cultural or social issues?

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?

II. **Evidence of learning**: How will students demonstrate that they are answering the question? What will your evidence of student learning look like? A types of writing/evidence: i. formal writing or project (summative) essay; curation; rhetorical;

ii. informal writing (formative)

B. How will this show you that they've learned? how will you evaluate its success or failure in relation to your goals?

III. **Design** A. what knowledge or skills will students need in order to produce their evidence of student learning? knowledge about the poem; cultural or historical knowledge; knowledge about Whitman? skills in reading? skills in analysis/making connections? skills in writing?

B. what kind of activities will develop these knowledges and skills? what kinds of things will students need to do to acquire these knowledges and skills? reading; writing; finding; collaborating;

C. how will you structure these activities? do some have to come before others? which? why? are some more or less important than others? are some more or less formal than others?

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