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Poet Wallace Stevens is born
October 2, 1879
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesLesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
This lesson prompts students to think about a poem’s speaker within the larger context of modernist poetry. First, students will review the role of the speaker in two poems of the Romanticism period before focusing on the differences in Wallace Stevens’ modernist “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Slave rebel Nat Turner is born
October 2, 1800
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesLesson 2: Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
This lesson plan will explore the wide-ranging debate over American slavery by presenting the lives of its leading opponents and defenders and the views they held about America's "peculiar institution."
Mahatma Gandhi born
October 2, 1869
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Lesson Plan / Art & CultureMartin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
Students learn about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence and the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi that influenced King's views.
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