1. Monday, 3/14 Plan
Mood review
“I Sit and Look Out” analysis
Analysis of Linkin Park’s “What I’ve Done”
Comparisons between Whitman and Linkin Park
If there is time left, independent reading

2. Try on your own! Then see answers on next page.
MOOD PRACTICE
"The Raven" excerpt by Edgar Allan Poe:
 "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore,. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here forevermore.“
1. Which of the following best defines the mood of the passage?
A. hostile
B. playful
C. confident
D. grim
2. Highlight two words/phrases as proof.
Try on your own! Then see answers on next page.

3. 1. Which of the following best defines the mood of the passage?
MOOD PRACTICE: "The Raven" excerpt by Edgar Allan Poe:
 "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore,. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here forevermore.“
1. Which of the following best defines the mood of the passage?
A. hostile
B. playful
C. confident
D. grim
2. Highlight two words/phrases as proof.

4. Try on your own! Then see answers on next page.
Excerpt from Sleeping Beauty, just after the birth
of the princess, Aurora:
"At last, however, the Queen had a daughter. There was a very fine christening; and the Princess had for her godmothers all the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom (they found seven), that every one of them might give her a gift, as was the custom of fairies in those days. By this means the Princess had all the perfections imaginable."
3. What best defines the mood of the passage?
A. heartbroken
B. celebratory
C. nervous
D. mellow
4. Highlight two words/phrases as proof.
Try on your own! Then see answers on next page.

5. 3. What best defines the mood of the passage? A. heartbroken
Excerpt from Sleeping Beauty, just after the birth
of the princess, Aurora:
"At last, however, the Queen had a daughter. There was a very fine christening; and the Princess had for her godmothers all the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom (they found seven), that every one of them might give her a gift, as was the custom of fairies in those days. By this means the Princess had all the perfections imaginable."
3. What best defines the mood of the passage?
A. heartbroken
B. celebratory
C. nervous
D. mellow
4. Highlight two words/phrases as proof.

6. I Sit and Look Out
By Walt Whitman

7. Try on your own!
Then check in with seat partner. Then see answers on next page.

8. ANSWERS
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9. ANSWERS

10. DIRECTIONS: While Whitman was writing in the mid-1800s about the sorrows of the world, more current artists address the same issues. For instance, Linkin Park made a 2009 song/video called “What I’ve Done, which has many similarities to Whitman’s piece. Look to your sheet and the villains/tragedies chart. As you view the video, WATCH; you can write down later. But be thinking about what villainous figures/tragedies the video portrays.

11. After viewing the video once, fill in the chart:

12. Next, count off by 7s to form groups
Next, count off by 7s to form groups. Move into those groups, share what you noted in the chart, and then watch the video again to see what you may have missed the first time. Talk again with your group, then see some ideas on the next slide.

13. Global warming
Poaching
Pollution
Oil spoil
War
Nuclear explosion/bomb detonation
Racism
Police brutality
Famine/starvation
Eating disorders
Drug addiction
9/11
Holocaust
Saddam Hussein
Poachers
Polluters
Hitler
Nazis
Castro
Stalin
KKK

14. COMPARE/CONTRAST of Whitman and Linkin Park
BOTH
LINKIN PARK

15. COMPARE/CONTRAST of Whitman and Linkin Park
BOTH
WHITMAN
Terrorism
Oil spoils
Poaching
Nuclear war
Drug addiction
Eating disorder
Ends on a positive note with the grass re-growing—things can be fixed
LINKIN PARK
Pestilence
Sailors at sea
Mother misused
Ends on a pessimistic not with speaker feeling overwhelmed/
helpless
Famine
Racism
War
Tyranny
suffering