English 11 (Period 1) Assignments

• define the term
• define the root word
• define the meaning of the root word
• place synonyms on each branch.
  

Ms. Ortega                English 11                                           “I Hear America Singing” / “I Sit and Look Out”

Create your own version of both of Whitman’s poems that we have read.  Follow the format that Whitman has established.  Please insert your own people and what they are doing for “I Hear” or your own people and injustices for “I Sit.”

Ex:          I hear America singing, the varied carols, I hear.

                Those of teachers, each one singing hers as it should be blithe and strong.

                The mailman singing his as he delivers people’s many letter and packages,

                The janitor singing hers as she gets ready for work, or finishes for the day,

                The construction foreman singing what belongs to him at his site, the construction worker

     singing while he hammers away.

Ex:          I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon on all the oppression and shame.

                I hear quite remorseful cries from teenagers at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds

    done.

I see in low the solider returning from war, misused by the system, dying, neglected,

    traumatized,  lost,