American essayist, lecturer, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson born

John F. Kennedy pledges support to Space Program

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  Explore connections between family history and the history of the world around us.

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American poet Theodore Roethke born

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  Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"

  Students examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."

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