2. BELLWORK DO the COMMA worksheet on the orange paper… If you could make or change one law, what would it be and why?

3. TODAY’S LEARNING GOALS Identify and analyze poetry form and speaker. Identify free verse characteristics. Identify and analyze rhyme and rhythm.

4. OPENING Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l VHsfk0vV8

5. AFTER THE VIDEO On your own sheet of paper, copy her type of analysis with the poem “O Captain, My Captain.” You should make a visual aid like she did.

6. WORK TIME ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TURN THEM IN… “O Captain, My Captain” by Walt Whitman 1. Who might the poem’s speaker be? 2. What is the poem’s form – how do you know? 3. What is the poem’s rhyme scheme? 4. What repetition is there in the poem? 5. What might the message of this poem be that the author is trying to convey? (This answer should be at least four sentences)

7. CLOSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j64SctPKmqk