Honors American Literature

Week of 1/23

Mon-Wed

We will be looking at Emily Dickinson's style through studies of "The Soul Selects Her Own Society,"  "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," "Because I Could Not Stop For Death,"  and "I heard a fly buzz when I died."

Vocabulary words for unit 9 will be distributed and exercises completed.

Thursday

Students will write an in-class essay comparing and contrasting Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. 

Friday

We will read and discuss passages from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" and Emerson's "Self-Reliance."  We will follow up with a documentary study beginning next week.