Name: __________________________

Grade and Section: ________________

A.    If you are a historian who wants to research what life was like for women who are
living in the Philippines in 1974.  What are the kinds of primary sources you might look
for?  What are the kinds of secondary sources?  Try to list three of each.  

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B. Directions.  Read and understand the different information about Emily Dickinson
taken from the different links. Using the given rubric below, write in one statement the
information you found from each link. Gather at least two interesting facts about her. 
Accomplish the table that follows. (5 pts for each) 

Rubric in Writing:

Quality of Writing (Accurate, Clarity of Ideas, Well-organized) 3

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (No Errors)                              2_

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Emily Dickinson

1830-1886

https://poets.org/poet/emily-dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts.  Her father,
Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in state and national politics, serving in Congress
for one term. Her brother, Austin, who attended law school and became an attorney, lived
next door with his wife, Susan Gilbert. Dickinson’s younger sister, Lavinia, also lived at
home, and she and Austin were intellectual companions for Dickinson during her lifetime.

She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as John Keats.
Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of her contemporary Walt Whitman by
rumors of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by the distinguished place
they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice. While Dickinson was
extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not
publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of her work was published
posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886.

Upon her death, Dickinson's family discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 1,800
poems, or "fascicles" as they are sometimes called. Dickinson assembled these booklets by
folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper and copying what seem to be final
versions of poems. The handwritten poems show a variety of dash-like marks of various
sizes and directions (some are even vertical). The poems were initially unbound and
published according to the aesthetics of her many early editors, who removed her
annotations. The current standard version of her poems replaces her dashes with an en-
dash, which is a closer typographical approximation to her intention. The original order of
the poems was not restored until 1981, when Ralph W. Franklin used the physical evidence
of the paper itself to restore her intended order, relying on smudge marks, needle
punctures, and other clues to reassemble the packets. Since then, many critics have argued
that there is a thematic unity in these small collections, rather than their order being simply
chronological or convenient. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (Belknap Press,
1981) is the only volume that keeps the order intact.
Emily Dickinson

American Poet

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, in full Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, (born December 10, 1830, Amherst,

Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 15, 1886, Amherst), American lyric poet who lived in
seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. With Walt
Whitman, Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century
American poets.

Only 10 of Emily Dickinson’s nearly 1,800 poems are known to have been published in her
lifetime. Devoted to private pursuits, she sent hundreds of poems to friends and
correspondents while apparently keeping the greater number to herself. She habitually
worked in verse forms suggestive of hymns and ballads, with lines of three or four stresses.
Her unusual off-rhymes have been seen as both experimental and influenced by the 18th-
century hymnist Isaac Watts. She freely ignored the usual rules of versification and even of
grammar, and in the intellectual content of her work she likewise proved exceptionally bold
and original. Her verse is distinguished by its epigrammatic compression, haunting personal
voice, enigmatic brilliance, and lack of high polish.

For her first nine years she resided in a mansion built by her paternal grandfather, Samuel
Fowler Dickinson, who had helped found Amherst College but then went bankrupt shortly
before her birth. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was a forceful and prosperous Whig lawyer
who served as treasurer of the college and was elected to one term in Congress. Her
mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, from the leading family in nearby Monson, was an
introverted wife and hardworking housekeeper; her letters seem equally inexpressive and
quirky. Both parents were loving but austere, and Emily became closely attached to her
brother, Austin, and sister, Lavinia. Never marrying, the two sisters remained at home, and
when their brother married, he and his wife established their own household next door. The
highly distinct and even eccentric personalities developed by the three siblings seem to
have mandated strict limits to their intimacy. “If we had come up for the first time from two
wells,” Emily once said of Lavinia, “her astonishment would not be greater at some things I
say.” Only after the poet’s death did Lavinia and Austin realize how dedicated she was to
her art.

As a girl, Emily was seen as frail by her parents and others and was often kept home from
school. She attended the coeducational Amherst Academy, where she was recognized by
teachers and students alike for her prodigious abilities in composition. She also excelled in
other subjects emphasized by the school, most notably Latin and the sciences. A class in
botany inspired her to assemble an herbarium containing a large number of pressed plants
identified by their Latin names.

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