1. Pathways to the American Dream
AP English 3
Fall 2016

2. Title Paraphrase Connotation TPCASTT Template Attitude Shift
of poem means
Paraphrase
parts of the Poem
you may need a separate sheet
Connotation
of some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values
Attitude
What is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?
Shift
At first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift: identify the shifts and explain them
Title revisited
Any new insights on meaning or significance of title?
Theme

3. America, the Beautiful About the Author After witnessing the view from Pike’s Peak in Colorado in 1893, Katharine Lee Bates ( ) wrote the words to her most well-known poem, “America, the Beautiful.” She was an accomplished poet and professor who founded the New England Poetry Club and taught English literature at Wellesley College.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness, And ev’ry gain divine!
O Beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassion’d stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!

4. Identify the author’s feelings about America.
Identify specific words and/or phrases that support your claim.
TP-CASTT

5. America by Claude McKay About the Author Born in 1890 in Jamaica, Claude McKay traveled to America to attend college, where he experienced the harsh realities of racism. He wrote portry on political and social concerns and became a major writer of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement in the early 1920s.
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate, Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, And see her might and granite wonders there, Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand, Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

6. Identify the author’s feelings about America.
Identify specific words and/or phrases that support your claim.
TP-CASTT

7. I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
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 deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The wood-cutter’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 to 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.

8. I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

9. With your shoulder partner, perform the poems using body language.

10. Compose a 10-15 line poem that describes your attitude toward America
Compose a line poem that describes your attitude toward America. You may use any poem as a model.