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All activities are NO PREP and READY TO GO! Great for sub (substitute lesson plans). Each works well as a quick, textbook-free, in-class, or homework activity. Just print and go! Great for interactive notebooks, test prep, review, and showcasing your students' learning!

PRODUCTS INCLUDED - each differentiated (biographical sketch activities great for interactive notebooks and journals):

• WEBQUEST - Activity is differentiated allowing students to respond to open-ended questions reaching individual levels. WebQuests are designed to provide teachers with opportunities to differentiate by allowing students to respond to a varying range of questions.

• CHAIN / BRACELET / BOOKMARK - Templates can be adapted to meet your specific classroom needs.

• COLLABORATION with POST-ITS - Allow your students to collaborate with others! In a cooperative group of up to 4 members, students will work independently and then together to show their learning.

• TIMELINE ACTIVITY - Students are to find 5 events to include on the timeline and choose a quote that they liked the most and explain why.

• POSTER (INTERACTIVE NOTES) - Students are to find 8 pieces of information to include on the puzzle pieces, write a postcard to the person, and draw his/her portrait.

• ACROSTIC POEM - A blank template with each letter from the person's name is formatted and ready to include information, observations, or opinions from his/her life that your student chooses.

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Walt Whitman was an American poet born on May 31 1819 to Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor in Long Island. He had a rough childhood due to economic hardships and finished his formal education at eleven years. He found a job after school to supplement his family’s income as an office boy. Later he got a job as an apprentice for a printing firm and began his interest in writing.

However, he began to teach after a fire destroyed the printing district in New York in 1836 at seventeen years. He also started his own newspaper. His work raised a lot of controversy when he wrote it but he often considered as the “father of free verse” (Reynolds 314).

The aim of writing was to reach the common person whom he felt had been ignored by the literature of his time. Whitman was interested in politics and used his works to address political and democracy issues in the society.

His major work was his collection of poems called titled Leaves of Grass in 1855. The collection attracted negative criticism from many critics as they called the work obscene due to its sexual themes, which they found offensive. Consequently, he was sacked from his job at Brooklyn Eagle (Jason 87-91).

However, one man by the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Whitman’s poetry collection an approval and praised the work to his friends. The approval raised an interest in the book. Emerson gave the book his approval when he wrote Whitman a letter praising the book.

Thus, Emerson contributed greatly to Whitman’s career as the letter which written by Emerson was printed in the subsequent edition and helped to mitigate the negative criticism his first edition had attracted and made a positive statement about Whitman’s collection of poems.

The environment also influenced Whitman’s work. His milieu was one of mortality as he had encountered death when his infant

- Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

Engage your learners in fun, interactive, and creative ways to discover more about WALT WHITMAN using 3 differentiated activities to foster learning (great for use in interactive notebooks and math journals).

Three biographical sketch activity templates include:

• Timeline Activity
• Poster (Interactive Notes)
• Acrostic Poem Template

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For other uses, see Walt Whitman (disambiguation).

Walter Whitman Jr. (//; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American history. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described by some as obscene for its overt sensuality. Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island, and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. He worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, was financed with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt to reach out to the common person with an American epic. Whitman continued expanding and revising Leaves of Grass until his death in 1892. During the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C., and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. On the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, who Whitman greatly admired, he authored two poems "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures on Lincoln. After suffering a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at the age of 72, his funeral was a public event.

Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Art historian Mary Berenson wrote, "You cannot really