n. 1. A body of water, such as a creek or small river, that is a tributary of a larger body of water. 2. A sluggish stream that meanders through lowlands, marshes, or plantation grounds. [Louisiana French bayouque, bayou, possibly from Choctaw bayuk.]
Special Bonus Section: Four Sites that Could Help with Dickinson and Whitman!
1.Web Study Text of Whitman's "Song of Myself"
2.Research and Reference Guide to "Song of Myself"
3.Research and Reference Guide to Emily Dickinson's Poetry
4.Poets.org Guide to Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems
Quote of the Week: "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
-Walt Whitman
Website of the Week: The Oxford English Dictionary
American Literature:
1. Olympiad Seminar
2.-5. Read Walt Whitman all week, and try to come to a deep understanding of every Whitman poem in the Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature, especially those in "Song of Myself"; begin working on your essay when you can
