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

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

Homework AssignmentPeriod 1

Life & Thought Between the Wars

1669-1673

Literature & the Times 1673-4 & Traditionalism

1676-1677Modernism 1674-

1676

Matt Daisha Jane

Kate Jordan Kim

Arielle Dominika Ashontae'

Tianna Horace Tim

Kayla Chantei Savannah

Benjamin Bryan Emily

Ayla

Homework Assignment Period 2

Life & Thought Between the Wars

1669-1673

Literature & the Times 1673-4 & Traditionalism

1676-1677Modernism 1674-

1676

Austin Khristian Kasim

Kemani Erin Prince

Nyimah Teairah Tyrek

Shannon Juliana Gabriel

Briana Mikyle Shania

Mallory Heather Gabriel

James Rushil

Homework AssignmentsPeriod 3

Life & Thought Between the Wars

1669-1673

Literature & the Times 1673-4 & Traditionalism

1676-1677Modernism 1674-

1676

Tyler Rasheed Emily

Cassidy Simmona Keanu

Rachel Iyanna Ricky

Phillip Douglas Justin

Quentin Tracie Jermaine

Bertram

Homework AssignmentsPeriod 4

Life & Thought Between the

Wars 1669-1673

Literature & the Times 1673-4 & Traditionalism

1676-1677Modernism 1674-1676

Ellie Vincent Sherley

Treyvoughn Timothy Simeon

Adam Nicholas Samantha

Yanelis Talor D'anna

Homework AssignmentsPeriod 7

Life & Thought Between the Wars

1669-1673

Literature & the Times 1673-4 & Traditionalism 1676-

1677Modernism 1674-

1676

Shanice Isaiah Melisa

Lorianny Gianna Ashley

Cody Brianna Brittney

Jacquin Konjit Andreina

Tyesha Sherry Casey

Melody Brittany Tyrell

Chris

• Word Bank• Leftover Presentations of Trojan Women

8

Housekeeping/ Announcements

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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

Journal: “Poetry Retrospective Detectives”

• 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

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…

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•

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, ee cummings, 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

Do Ya Have Ya’ Packets??

• American Literature Between the Wars• American Poetry Sampler• (Poetic Glossary… taped into your journal)

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)