Leaves of Grass Lesson Plan

Read "Song of Myself," Sections 27-52.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.4

    

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.9

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.4

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1

5. 5

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.5

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

27-52

The poet considers the pleasures of touch and the ways in which our own senses and emotions carry us away and betray us. He meditates on truth and determines that...