Phillis Wheatley Poems - 5 Day Unit, CCSS
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This is a 5-day unit in which students analyze the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, an early poet in the days of America's founding. There are two main poems that students will analyze that correspond to the American revolutionary cause and at the end students will select another poem from a compiled list of different topics she wrote about. Students will read the poems (included), learn about the author, engage with the vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, and complete a writing assignment in which they analyze a poem of their choice from a compiled list.
The poems include:
1. "To The Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth"
2. "His Excellency General Washington"
3. Compilation of various topical poems (for a written analysis)
Note on Level of Rigor: High school is the target grade range for the standards in this unit. However, this unit may also be used for 8th grade classes if the teacher determines the students are proficient in rigorous literary analysis.
Product includes:
- Overview
- Daily lesson plans
- Warm Ups
- Exit Tickets
- Phillis Wheatley Research Organizer (answer key included)
- Vocabulary Preview (answer key included)
- Anticipation Guide
- The main texts themselves (two poems, with numbered stanzas)
- Text-dependent discussion questions (answer key included)
- Poem Analysis Criteria Handout
- Compiled Set of 9 Poems for Written Analysis
- Writing Draft sheets
- Rubric
- Optional Quiz (answer key included)
Enjoy delving into these classic poems of early American literature!
Note: You can also get this item in our U.S. Founding Literature Bundle that includes other units on key early American texts. If you would like them all, please buy the bundle instead.
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