Leaves of Grass teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on Leaves of Grass for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Parts 1 to 72
The speaker connects individual identity, bodily life, workers, and comradeship, presenting human equality as a basis for democratic life.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Parts 73 to 143
The poems reach readers across time, question identity beside the sea, and move from shared labor toward wartime mobilization.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Parts 144 to 215
War brings wounds, care, mourning, and reconciliation, while later poems extend human dignity to people society rejects.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Parts 216 to 286
Journeys, music, and encounters with death test the speaker's search for connection as he considers democracy, memory, and old age.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Parts 287 to 358
The later poems revisit equality, aging, remembrance, and renewal, while asking how future readers can continue an unfinished poetic exchange.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 38 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
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