1. ENGL 11 Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism
Warm-Up
Poetry Workshop
Walt Whitman Poetry

2. Warm-Up
When you think of the word American, what images come to mind? Why? Review your list. Based on the images, how do you define American?

3. A Growing America
In 1783, the new country was a group of 13 new states clustered along the Atlantic coastline.
By 1855, America had grown to 30 states that stretched across the continent and was rapidly moving toward industrialization and urbanization.
It was a diverse country with people coming in from all over the world.

4. Diversity It was America’s diversity that fascinated Whitman.
He saw America as the greatest nation that ever was, and it was great because it was a “melting pot” of skilled, hard-working people from everywhere in the world.

5. Poetry Workshop
While we read, add to your notes.

6. ENGL 11 Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism
Warm-Up
Poetic Form Quiz
Walt Whitman Poetry Continued
CSET

7. Warm-Up
Review your notes from yesterday’s class. Then: 3 – List three new ideas or concepts introduced 2 – List two images Whitman used in his poem 1 – Define one new term

8. Poetic Form Quiz
Define the following terms in your own words. You may use your notes, you may not use the book!

9. Free Verse
Free verse is Whitman's expression of the democratic concepts of a vast diverse America
"What we call poems." he wrote, "are merely pictures."
The "real poems," he insisted, "are the men and women in all the variety of human experience."

10. Free Verse
Whitman uses several poetic devices to create rhythm in his poems
Catalog – using frequent lists of people, places, and things
Repetition – repeated words or phrases at the beginning of lines
Parallelism – ideas in the same grammatical form

11. “A Noiseless Patient Spider” and “Beat! Beat! Drums!”
While we read, think about the tone and structure of each poem.

12. Tone CSET
Tone is the writer’s attitude toward his or her subject. Select one of Whitman’s poems and in a one paragraph CSET response, discuss the tone of the poem.

13. Homework
Read and take notes on “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County” by Twain.
The text is already posted on the class documents page.