Monday 2 23 Take a grammar bell ringer

Monday, 2. 23 Take a grammar bell ringer and begin working on it. You will have 4. 5 minutes to complete the 8 questions.

Check your answers 1. D 5. D 2. B 6. A 3. B 7. C 4. C or D 8. B

TP-CASTT (for poetry) • Title • Paraphrase • Connotation • Attitude/Tone • Shifts • Title • Theme

I Hear America Singing I hear America Singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The woodcutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission, or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and none else, The day what belongs to the day – at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

“I Hear America Singing” By Walt Whitman (1867) • Title: • Paraphrase: • Connotation: • Attitude/Tone: • Shifts: • Title: • Theme:

“I, Too” By Langston Hughes (1945) Complete “Title” Read and Annotate Silently (independent 5 minutes)

“I, Too” Discussion • How does this poem make you think about what is means to be American? How is “America” presented in this poem, and how does it make you feel about America? • What effect does the intensely domestic imagery of the poem – the house, the kitchen, the eating, the table – have on themes of this piece as a whole? • What kind of character is the speaker? How do you feel about him as a spokesperson for the American citizenry? • There are many different ways in which the speaker of this poem related to “the other” here. It’s more than just “these people don’t like these other people” – can you identify the whole range of emotions? How do these emotions make the piece more complicated? • What relationship does the historical setting of this poem have to Hughe’s contemporary setting? That is, how does the poem manage to work on two levels – America in the time of slavery and America in the first half of the 30 th century? How are these two time periods similar? How are they different?