After reading and studying Eli Wiesel's Night in September (and yes, I do realize that Wiesel was European, but he lived in the US for a long time), we moved on to the poetry of Emily Dickinson for October in our US Lit high school home school class. While Big Girl had access to the entire collection of Dickinson's work, I chose six specific poems to analyze further. In the process of doing so, we learned about Emily Dickinson's biography, slant rhymes, critical literary lenses, and new vocab. Among others, there were a compare and contrast assignment, an assignment to re-write a poem into today's language, an assignment to write at least one original poem in Dickinson's style, and an assignment to create a piece of visual art that represents one of the poems. We watched the movie Wild Nights with Emily and as the grand finale (a surprise to Big Girl), we visited Amherst, MA, including the Emily Dickinson House and Museum.
In November we will spend some time comparing Dickinson's work to her contemporary Ralph Waldo Emerson's and also read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson as our first short story selection for the class. Big Girl likes horror movies, so this story seemed fitting to introduce on Day of the Dead.
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