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Prompt Analysis

■ Purpose: To analyze a poem

■ Audience: Test grader

■ Subject: “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman

■ Type: Essay response to a prompt

Planning Quick List

“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman

  — List of workers doing jobs

  — All are singing “varied carols”

  — Happily contributing to the US

  — Jobs would be different now

  — Gender would be different now