Correction: Emily Dickinson DID NOT die at the age of 18 (3:42). She died at the age of 55. My voice is not well enough for another take. So sorry. I mean no disrespect to the AMAZING Emily Dickinson. <3
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hi, Girl Scouts.
And welcome to another addition to the because of her
Girl Scout patch program.
My name is Yes, Sonya, but you can call me
Miss Desi.
I am super duper excited, too.
Provide a short story on a very important woman in
history by the name of Emily Dickinson.
Do you know who Emily Dickinson is?
Well, you're about to find out.
But first, let's start off with the Girl Scout promise
and the Girl Scout law.
Please raise your right hand with the Girl Scout sign
the Girl Scout promise on my honor.
I will try to serve God and my country to
help people at all times and to live by the
Girl Scout Law, the Girl Scout Law.
I will do my best to be honest and fair,
friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong and
responsible for what I say and do and to respect
myself and others.
Respect authority, use resource is wisely make the world a
better place and be a sister to every grass Scout.
Today, as I mentioned, I will go over a story
about Emily Dickinson, an American poet, and I will also
go over some fun facts.
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on
December 10th 18 30.
Her parents were moderately wealthy and wanted Emily to receive
a good education.
Her parents, especially her father, were very supportive of her
and encouraged her son's studies subjects like English literature, Latin
botany, geology, history and arithmetic.
As Emily grew up, her teachers and members of the
community frequently noted how bright and intelligence she waas.
When Emily was 18 years old, a family friend gifted
her books of poetry by William Words Worth and Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
Although Emily had always loved learning, she said that these
books awakened her in a great love of reading, poetry
and novels.
She borrowed novels from her friends and even had her
brother sneaked books into the house for her that her
father might not have approved of.
As Emily grew older and more of her friends and
relatives passed away from illness, she became increasingly melancholy and
focused more of her attention on poetry, writing and reading.
In the 18 sixties, Emily began her most productive period
of writing.
At this point, she lived very secluded from society and
mostly communicate with communicated with others through letter writing.
Some doctors believe Emily may have suffered from Agora phobia,
which is a fear of open public places, despite the
fact that Emily wrote much poetry.
Fewer than a dozen of her poems were published while
she was alive, and the poems that were published were
heavily edited by the men who owned the publications.
Emily died on May 15th 18 86 at the age
of 18.
When she died, Emily was barely known as a poet.
Most of her friends and family and neighbors thought of
her as a gardener.
Four years after Emily died, her sister discovered a collection
of 1800 poems that Emily had written in her notebooks.
Even then, the people published.
Emily's poems would frequently edit them, changing them from the
way Emily originally intended to present them.
It wasn't until 1998 that a complete collection of Emily's
poems was published unedited.
Emily's poems have been in print ever since your sister
discovered them, and she is now regarded as one of
the greatest American poets.
No, let's go over some fun facts.
The first fun fact is that Emily's father was a
politician. Emily Dickinson's father was a national politician who serve
four non consecutive terms in the different elected positions, one
being a United States senator Fun fact number two literary
criticism. Her work was initially criticized for its unique take
on grammar.
She truly invented a unique style with her poetry that
did not follow the grammar rules.
For example, she experimented with capitalization, punctuation and allowed sentences
to run on.
Despite this, her work is now regarded as unique literary
masterpieces. Can you imagine turning in on assignment to your
teacher that had no capitalization?
The punctuation was wrong, and there were several run on
sentences. That's right.
Your teacher might not really appreciate that, but Emily was
brave and had her own unique style.
And she wrote what she wanted, which is pretty amazing.
In fact, Number three The museum.
Samuel Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's grandfather, had the family home.
Built in the 19th century, it was a large mansion
in the center of Amherst that became the family home
for over a century since 2003 it formally became the
Emily Dickinson Museum, along with the home next door that
belonged to Emily's Knees.
You see the picture there that is an actual picture
of Emily's home, where she grew up.
It is said that she wrote most of her poems
in her room on the second floor.
Fun fact Number four.
Passion for Botany.
In her early years, Emily's favorite subject was bought me
the study of plants during her time at Amherst Academy.
Her teachers were impressed by the collection off pressed plans
that she accurately identified by their Latin names.
It's no wonder a lot of her poetry references, plants
and flowers.
In fact, number five Baker Emily Dickinson loved to bake.
She often baked goods for her nieces and nephews who
lived next door.
She is also known as a loyal friend who regularly
shared her sweet treats with them.
Do you love to bake for family and friends?
If you two love to bake and wood love to
try some of her recipes, you confined those online onto
your bag work in order to, um, earned that the
Emily Dickinson batch, which is if you, if you see
the picture, it's a it looks like a pen.
Um, you must complete three of the eight requirements that
will be listed on our page.
Um, please feel free to reach out to us if
you have any questions, I look forward to, um, looking
at at the completion off of your of these requirements.
Thank you so much for your time and attention.
Well, we really appreciate you taking the time to learn
about these women in history.
These very important women in history.
We hope that you're inspired.
Um, I hope that you're inspired by Emily Dickinson.