This interactive handout is aligned with the three day unit plan Singing America: Whitman, Hughes and You. Scholars use this interactive handout to organize their thinking as they compare Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” and Langston Hughes' “I, Too, Sing America.”
Assignment: The first stud...
The "5 W" QuestionsWHO is singing?
In Whitman?
In Hughes?
WHAT America are they singing about?
In Whitman?
In Hughes?
WHERE? The setting of the poem?
In Whitman?
In Hughes?
WHEN? The time period of the poem?
In Whitman?
In Hughes?
WHY are they singing?
In Whitman?
In Hughes?
Are these differences significant? Why or Why not?