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Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman Webquest

This document provides instructions for a WebQuest assignment on the poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Students are directed to research the poets by visiting provided websites and answering questions about each poet's life, works, and influences. The questions cover topics like Dickinson's reclusive nature, themes in her poetry, her relationship with Whitman, and what was found after her death. For Whitman, the questions explore his upbringing, careers, social issues he wrote about, key events like the first publication of Leaves of Grass, how the book evolved, influences of New York City on his poetry, and impacts of the Civil War. Students are to type their answers in the document and submit it by the specified deadline.

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Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman Webquest

This document provides instructions for a WebQuest assignment on the poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Students are directed to research the poets by visiting provided websites and answering questions about each poet's life, works, and influences. The questions cover topics like Dickinson's reclusive nature, themes in her poetry, her relationship with Whitman, and what was found after her death. For Whitman, the questions explore his upbringing, careers, social issues he wrote about, key events like the first publication of Leaves of Grass, how the book evolved, influences of New York City on his poetry, and impacts of the Civil War. Students are to type their answers in the document and submit it by the specified deadline.

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  • Directions: Provides instructions on how to complete the WebQuest, including submission guidelines and contact information.
  • Walt Whitman WebQuest: Activities centered on Walt Whitman, exploring his life, works, and historical context.
  • Emily Dickinson WebQuest: Tasks focused on Emily Dickinson, requiring information about her life and poetic influences.

Directions:

Please complete the following WebQuest by Sunday, January 13 by 8:00 PM.


In order to complete the WebQuest:
1. Go to the website provided by either pressing CTRL + the link or copy and pasting the
website into the search engine.
2. Type your answers to the questions in the space below. Please make sure there is a
space between the question and your answer and your answer and the next question to
make grading easier for me.
3. When you have finished all the questions, please save the document and email to me at
agauthier@madisonpreponline.org

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman Webquest


Emily Dickinson http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155
1. List three interesting facts about Dickinsons life from the biography page:
2. What is one theory about what influenced Dickinsons poetry?
3. List two ideas in or characteristics of her poetry:
4. During her life, what was Dickinsons relationship with her poetic contemporary, Walt
Whitman? What about after her death what is the relationship between these two poets
today?
5. When did Dickinson die? What was found after her death?

Walt Whitman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/whitman/program/


Go to the Timeline section and answer the following questions:
1. When was Whitman born? What type of life was he born into?
2. What types of jobs did Whitman hold in his life?
3. Between the years of 1841 1845, what types of social issues was he writing about?
Was this normal for the time period, or was he going against the grain? What do you
think of that?
4. What significant event happens in May of 1855?
5. Who was Whitmans literary hero? What does that tell you about Whitmans beliefs as
a writer?
6. Why was Leaves of Grass so controversial? (You might have to do further research to
fully answer the question).
Go to the Learn More section, click on Leaves of Grass and answer the following
questions:
7. How did the poem, Song of Myself come about?
8. Summarize how Whitman changed the book, Leaves of Grass, over his lifetime.
In the Learn More section, click on Whitman and New York City and answer the
following questions:
9. How did New York affect Whitmans poetry?
In the Learn More section, click on Whitman and the Civil War and answer the
following questions:
10. How did the Civil War affect Whitmans poetry?

Directions: Please complete the following WebQuest by Sunday, January 13 by 8:00 PM. In order to complete the WebQuest: 1.
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman Webquest Emily Dickinson http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155 (http://www.poets.org/poe
Walt Whitman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/whitman/program/ (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/whitman/program/) Go to the ‘Timeli

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