Walt Whitman: Poems Lesson Plan

Read "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" and "Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9
   Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foundational works of American literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
   Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

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