2023-24 American Literature

 Today, I'm going to give you a few minutes finish working on the study question for Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (page 402), and look at the review below. The test will be on Monday but we will be moving onto Realism and Huckleberry Finn. You will need to do questions 1,2, 4, 5, and 6 on page 408. Review for Test on Romanticism   1) – Be able to discuss with examples how Emerson (Nature and Self-Reliance)   and Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience fit the ideas of Transcendentalism.   You will need to be able to pick out   a theme for each essay and use specific examples.   2) – Discuss the meaning of the “A Psalm of Life”, “The Tide Falls”, “The Chambered Nautilus” and “Old Ironsides”.   Be able to analysis rhyme scheme, stanza structure, and metaphor in each poem.   Also apply the question: What gives life purpose to the poems.   3) – List the elements of American Gothic literature an...

 Today we are going to finish Walden and read Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (page 402). You will need to do questions 1,2, 4, 5, and 6 on page 408. Here is a link to the text if you do not have your textbooks:    https://litfit.webs.com/u2_woman_19century_se.pdf For the final, you will need to summarize what Fuller's essay is about and connect it to the ideas of the Transcendentalist movement.    

   Today we will read selections from Walden (page 380). You will need to do question 1-4, and 6 on page 388. If you left your book at school here is a link: https://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/student/ebook_gr11/osp/data/u2_walden_civil_se.pdf  

  Civil Disobedience Learning Goal: Determine the central ideas of a text and analyze their development; provide an objective summary of the text. Today's Objective: Read "from Civil Disobedience" and determine the theme that Thoreau develops and then write a summary of the text using specific examples to back up your ideas. We will also be looking at "From Walden" if we have time.   HW: questions 1-4, 6 and 7 on page 388.         at November 29, 2022 No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Monday, November 28, 2022 Monday - afterbreak  Today, I'll give you some class time to work on your essays. These need to be done by Wednesday. We will also read Thoreau in your textbooks. Learning Goal: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development; prov...

Today we are going to look at  Emerson - "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" (page 369)  but first we should review what "Transcendentalism" is.  see - Shmoop: https://www.shmoop.com/american-romanticism/ Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance" Learning Goal: RI2, Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how they develop over the course of the text Today's Objective: Identify Emerson's theme in "Self-Reliance" and discuss how he expands upon the idea.  What we will do today: Read the background information of Emerson, read the essay "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" discuss a theme in each and ways he develops it. On page 375 answer questions 1, 4, 5 and 6.   https://waldrep.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/8/8/16887134/11_emerson_self-reliance_and_nature.pdf     Review for Test on Romanticism 1 – Be able to discuss with examples how Emerson (Nature and Self-Reliance)   and Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience...

 Today we are going to look at "Young Goodman Brown" and compare it with "The Minister's Black Veil". HW: In a paragraph compare "Young Goodman Brown" with "The Minister's Black Veil" by theme - please use specific evidence from both texts.

 Today we will continue with the "Fall of the House of Usher" (Tuesday - Wednesday): “ The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. Journal: Give a detail summary of the story and discuss how it fits the Romantic Period.  (Thursday) sections of Moby Dick and The Scarlett Letter.  1) Do you agree with the woman who says, "...the pang of it will be always in her heart"? Defend you answer. 2) Would public shame be effective retribution today? Why or why not?    

 Today we are going to look at Poe. Below are the assignments for this week:  This week we are going to look at the Gothic Romantics and read the following: (Monday): "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne  Journals for "The Minister's Black Veil" discuss Hawthorne's view of the human character and how this might be reinforced by Hawthorne's use of imagery and allusion. Questions: 1-3 and 6 plus journal below.   (Tuesday - Wednesday): “ The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. Journal: Give a detail summary of the story and discuss how it fits the Romantic Period.  (Thursday) sections of Moby Dick and The Scarlett Letter.  1) Do you agree with the woman who says, "...the pang of it will be always in her heart"? Defend you answer. 2) Would public shame be effective retribution today? Why or why not?  Journals for "The Minister's Black Veil" discuss Hawthorne's view of the human charac...

 This week we are going to look at the Gothic Romantics and read the following: (Monday): "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne  Journals for "The Minister's Black Veil" discuss Hawthorne's view of the human character and how this might be reinforced by Hawthorne's use of imagery and allusion. Questions: 1-3 and 6 plus journal below.   (Tuesday - Wednesday): “ The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. Journal: Give a detail summary of the story and discuss how it fits the Romantic Period.  (Thursday) sections of Moby Dick and The Scarlett Letter.  1) Do you agree with the woman who says, "...the pang of it will be always in her heart"? Defend you answer. 2) Would public shame be effective retribution today? Why or why not?  Journals for "The Minister's Black Veil" discuss Hawthorne's view of the human character and how this might be reinforced by Hawthorne's use of imagery and allu...

Thursday: Read Oliver Wendell Holmes pages 348 – 352. Do study questions 1-5 on page 353.   Friday: Work on the vocabulary words posted below (look them up and write sentences with each).      1)     Supinely   2)     Inviolate   3)     Martial   4)     Despotism   5)     Prudent   6)     Abrogate   7)     Buttress   8)     Concomitant   9)     Diaphanous   10) Impinge

 Today we are going discuss your answers to "The Devil and Tom Walker" and then look at the FIRESIDE POETS - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. HW: Questions: page 347 1-3, 7-8 Thursday and Friday you will be reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Poe and in your journals doing the following: 1) Give a detail summary of what happens in the text. 2) Discuss how the story fits the overview of the "Gothic Romantics" Here is a link to the story:  https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the_fall_of_the_house_of_usher.pdf    Video: "The Devil and Tom Walker"      Videos: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

Today we are going to read "The Devil and Tom Walker" on page 312. HW: Study questions 1-5 on page 325 and in your journal answer the following question: How does this story fit into the definition of Romantic Literature as seen in the Unit overview material that we read yesterday.

 Unit 2: The American Romanticism We will read the overview of the unit - pages 305-313 and discuss American Romanticism. Please turn in your projects and your essays. Homework, finish reading this sections. Unit Learning goal: Students will demonstrate knowledge of nineteenth century foundation works of American Literature by determining how a theme is developed over the course of text by analyzing structure, author’s choice of details, and character; and, by writing an essay on how these elements (or one of them) influences the meaning of the novel as a whole. Scale/Rubric relating to learning goal: 4 – The student can write a 5+ page essay that does all the things that a 3 level essay does 3 – The student can write a 3-5 page essay that explores how structure, details (symbol, imagery, figurative language) is developed of the course of the novel and how it influences the meaning of the novel.   2 – With some direction/help from t...