1. “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio”
By James Wright
Learning Target: How can language, specific words and
phrases convey setting?

2. James Wright
On December 13, 1927, James Arlington Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father worked for fifty years at a glass factory, and his mother left school at fourteen to work in a laundry; neither attended school beyond the eighth grade. 
Wright went on to become a college professor at several universities, most notably U of M… the University of Minnesota.
Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 25 Sept

3. Massilon (Ohio) High School
Football facilities.

4. In the Shreve High football stadium,
“Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio”
James Wright, 1927 - 1980
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies.
Learning Target: How can language convey setting?

5.
“All the Right Moves” Trailer
What specific details do you notice in the trailer that are similar to the poem’s setting?