"I Too Sing America" Poetry Unit/Exit Tickets/Project - Hughes/Alvarez/Whitman

This Slides Presentation Bundle is a week-long poetry unit that includes a summative project and 4 lessons on the following:

-Background on Langston Hughes/Harlem Renaissance & His poem "I Too Sing America"

-Background on Whalt Whitman and his poem "I Hear America Singing"

-Background on Julia Alvarez and her porm "I Too Sing America"

-Allusions in poetry (Talks about Hughes/Alvarez's poem being a response to Walt Whitman)

-Poetry Structure

-Free Verse

-Connotation/Denotation

-Writing for Particular Audience

-Comparing audio to text versions of the poem

-Employs use of YouTube Videos, but those can be removed

-Includes exit tickets for each presentation

Go find the 5 individual presentations on my page for deeper descriptions of each one! Great resources for VIRTUAL teaching!

Intended teaching order:

Day 1: "I Too Sing America" - Langston Hughes

Day 2: "Connotation/Denotation/Audience"

Day 3: "I Too Sing America" - Alvarez

Day 4: "I Hear America Singing" - Whitman

Day 5: Poetry Project