UNIT 1: 1815-1850: Nationalism, Expansionism, Birth of American Literature and Culture
- Class Brainstorm...What is American?
- History Review Terms Sheet
- Literary Terms
- Notes on the possibility of American Literature
- Reading and notes on Romanticism
- Excerpt from The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
- Notes on the American Hero
- Transcendentalism: Pre-Questions and Notes
- Emerson: Self-Reliance and Nature and questions to go along with the two pieces
- Notes on Nathaniel Hawthorne and "Anti-Transcendentalism"
- "Minister's Black Veil"- Story and Questions
- How to Analyze Art and How to Analyze Poetry
- Artistic Visions Film
- Handout on Figurative Language
- Art and Literature of the 19th Century Small Group Project
- List of Artists of Writers of the 19th Century
- Schedule
- PowerPoint on the History of the Abolitionist Movement
- Primary Readings: "Abolitionist Crusade" and questions
- Frederick Douglass
- Primary Readings: "Reactions to the Fugitive Slave Law" and questions
- Guiding Questions for Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
- Key Events preceding the Civil War
- Walt Whitman: Importance and Project
- Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War
- Chapter 20 of Pageant: Topics and Terms
- General information on the Civil War
- Civil War Project
- Chronology of Events
- Gettysburg
UNIT 4: Native American Experience: Historical and Contemporary Issues
- Children of the Plains and notes
- Sherman Alexie
- Colbert interviews; Bill Moyers interview
- "Every Little Hurricane," "A Drug Called Tradition," "The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore," "Indian Education"
- Howard Zinn
- Lincoln Assassinates 38 Sioux and "Another Proclamation"
UNIT 5: The Gilded Age: Historical and Literary Trends
- Regionalism, Realism, Naturalism Reading
- Notes on Regionalism and Naturalism
- Broad Historical Themes
- Notes on Huck Finn
- Historical Terms
- Kate Chopin stories and Literary Analysis
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