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Bellwork : “American Literature”

Bellwork : “American Literature”. Respond to the following prompts: What is American Literature, in your opinion? How do you think it might differ from English Literature, or Jamaican Literature, or Chinese Literature? (or any other nationality!!) (Think THEMES, STYLE, TOPICS, TONE…)

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Bellwork : “American Literature”

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  1. Bellwork: “American Literature” • Respond to the following prompts: • What is American Literature, in your opinion? How do you think it might differ from English Literature, or Jamaican Literature, or Chinese Literature? (or any other nationality!!) (Think THEMES, STYLE, TOPICS, TONE…) • Time: 4 minutes

  2. Homework • Actively read the “Literature Between the Wars” packet (read your assigned section) • Take active notes IN YOUR JOURNAL (too squishy on the pages!) • Write 3-5 VIP’s for your assigned portion • Be prepared to PRESENT your section to the class • Word Bank • Vocabulary Unit K • Due Dates: (11/12 (per 1, 2, 3, 4); 11/14 (7)) • Presenters: Arielle, James, Simmona, Ellie, Ms HB

  3. Homework AssignmentPeriod 1

  4. Homework Assignment Period 2

  5. Homework AssignmentsPeriod 3

  6. Homework AssignmentsPeriod 4

  7. Homework AssignmentsPeriod 7

  8. Housekeeping/ Announcements • Word Bank • Leftover Presentations of Trojan Women Words

  9. Journal: “Poetic Glossary” • Tape the poetic glossary pages so that you can READ THEM and REFER TO THEM easily  • You will come to know and love these terms 

  10. Journal: “Poetry Retrospective Detectives” Proposition: Poetry is historical evidence, and based on the poetry that we have left to us, we can learn about the time period from whence it came… • Roles • Historian • Considers the historical implications of the poems in the group • Form Annotator • Notice form / format of the poems • Literary Device/Elements Mistress/Master • Notes major/important devices and elements • Use the GLOSSARY • Time: 20 minutes • Task: • Count off to see who’s in which group! • Groups: • Puritan America • American Enlightenment • Romanticism • Transcendentalism • Realism • Actively Read the Poems • Analyze the poem; consider: • Time Period • Literary Devices • Form • Theme • Similarities/Differences between poems

  11. Journal: “Turn Back Time…”TAKE NOTES • Song Major American Literary “Movements” • Puritan – (1472-1750) • Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, John Smith • Setting up stable homesteads, Religion • Enlightenment – (1750-1800) • Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson • Human rights, rationalism, pride • Romanticism – (1800-1840) • Was a reaction against 18th century Neoclassicism (in Europe primarily) • placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica • Purely American topics were introduced such as frontier life • Writers include Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. • Transcendentalism – (1840-1855) • respected the individual spirit and the natural world, believing that divinity was present everywhere, in nature and in each person • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, W.H. Channing, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Peabody

  12. Journal: “Turn Back Time…”TAKE NOTES • Realism – (1865-1915) • presentation the details of actual life in art • Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, Henry James • Imagism (1912-1927) • Led by Ezra Pound, HD, and Amy Lowell • short poems create sharp, exact, concentrated pictures • Modern Age – (1915-1946) • Post World War I: An age of disillusionment and confusion • Eliot, Stevens, eecummings, Stein, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Frost • Harlem Renaissance (1919-1938) • Part of the Modern Age • Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Arna Bontemps

  13. Do Ya Have Ya’ Packets?? • American Literature Between the Wars • American Poetry Sampler • (Poetic Glossary… taped into your journal)

  14. Preview of Coming Attractions • Post World War I & Literature (1915-1945) • Modernist Poetry • Packet w/daily reading & writing assignments  • In-class essay at the end of the unit • Harlem Renaissance • Teaching Unit (MASSIVE Jigsaw)

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