Daily Log

Friday, March 19

We looked at a brief passage from Emerson's essay "The Poet," which inspired Whitman to become a poet, and read the very beginning of the first edition of "Song of Myself," with Whitman's distinctively sensual version of the love of Nature.

Students were advised that if they feel that reading poems which are sometimes somewhat sexual, and not always entirely heterosexual, will offend them or make them uncomfortable they should talk with Mr. Potratz to receive alternate assignments for next week.

HW due Monday:
One typed, well-written paragraph describing what of importance you have learned so far about your outside reading book's main character. What is he or she like? What motivates him/her? What questions has the book raised about the character?