BOCES ARTS-IN-EDUCATION / EXPLORATORY ENRICHMENT
PROGRAM DETAILS



Program Title

Civic Mindedness at the Walt Whitman Birthplace
 
Provider Name
Walt Whitman Birthplace
 
Education Director

Huntington Sta. , NY 11746
Phone:
631-427-5240
Email:
educator@waltwhitman.org
Website:
www.waltwhitman.org

Program Description
Students will watch a 10-minute video about Whitman’s pioneering poetry, celebrated worldwide for its democratic outlook and new, distinctly American style. Students read The Sleepers, O Democracy, and I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman and discuss the concepts of empathy, democracy, and civic mindedness. Students discover that they have a responsibility to everyone in the community, especially to those who do not possess a voice. Students write a poem about various people in their lives and neighborhoods in the model of Whitman’s poems. Students tour the authentic 19th c. farmhouse in which Walt Whitman was born and may view the updated timeline exhibits which depicts significant events in Walt’s life from his birth to the final 9th edition publication of “Leaves of Grass” in 1892. Upon conclusion of the program, the discussion may continue in the classroom to reinforce their historic site visit. Teachers will receive a curriculum and resource packet prior to visit. Suggested activities include student discussion of the government structures that enable citizens to make, interpret, and enforce laws in a democracy.
 

Categories
Authors (TH), Social Studies ,
 



Additional Resources 
There are no evaluations available for this program.

Program Recommendations
Grades
4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12



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Arts Standards
1,3,4


Other Standards 



Curriculum Connections 
Social Studies , English Language Arts , ,



Culturally Responsive 
1



Cost 
Cost Single: $9.50 per student minimum fee of $150
Cost Multiple:


Duration
120 minutes