Download Overview of American Literature

Name _____________________________ AP Eng 3
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Overview of Periods of Literature
National Beginnings ( 2000 BC- 1620 AD ) pg 19
National Events- 1619_______________________________________________
1620______________________________________________________________
World Events – 1615 _________________________________________________
Characteristics- American Literature before 1600 was mostly in the form of folktales, legends
and myths. (Pg. 66) American Literature after1600 was about first _________________
accounts of ____________________ and ____________________, about the ideals of the “New
World”.
Complete the 2 Middle columns and the lines above using the Yellow book. For column 4,
copy a significant quotation from each author’s selection. Milton’s Quote will come from the
Multiple choice practice test 1 worksheet. Swift’s Quote will come from the Multiple choice
practice test 1 worksheet.
Author
Michel de
Crevecoeur
Essay Q
1/5/09
(Birth – Death)
Majors Work(s)
pg. 294
Pg. 294
Quotation
Pg. 290-293
pg. 299
Pg. 295
Pg. 295-298
( 1608 –1674)
Areopagitica (1644)
Red Jacket
John Milton
Mc. 14 Qs
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HW. Fill in 4/1/09
Puritanism (1621-1790) pg. 132- 136
National Events- 1688
, 1692
1772
, 1775
, 1789
1791
, 1793
, 1796
World Events – 1632
, 1687
, 1789
Characteristics- pg. 134 Puritans value hard __________ and self __________, family
________, community _________________ art and _____________; were completely
______________ of those with ___________ ____________ __________ their own.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
Poor Richard's Almanack.
Silence Dogood, The BusyBody, & Early Writings
Jonathan Swift
1667-1745
"A Meditation upon a
Broomstick" 1703
"A Modest Proposal" 1729
Pg 292
Name _____________________________ AP Eng 3
2
Romanticism / Transcendentalism pg 340 (1791-1849 ) Slave Narrative.
Pg. 338 National Events- 1801
, 1803
1804
, 1808
, 1812
1814
, 1821
, 1823
1830
, 1840
, 1848
World Events – 1804
, 1807
1821
, 1823
, 1848
Characteristics- saw the limitations of ___________ and celebrated the__________ of the
_________ _____________ the emotions and the ______________ as basic elements of
_____________ _________. The ___________ ______ _________ inspired the romantics more
than the __________ __ __________ and some felt a ______________ with the _____________.
Transcendentalists believed individuals discovered the highest truth through _________ and
that individual may not be able to prove that truth through logic or reasons.
Author
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Timed Write #2
(Birth – Death)
Pg. 368
Majors Works – Dates
Pg. 368
Quotations
Washington Irving Pg. 362
Pg. 362
Henry David
Thoreau
Olaudah
Equiano
Pg. 380
Pg. 380
Pg. 99
Pg. 99
Pg. 93-98
Edgar Allen Poe
1/12- 1/16/09
Final Exam story
Walt Whitman
Pg 450- 453
Pg. 450- 453
Pg. 454- 473
Pg. 405
Pg. 405
Pg. 396-405
Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
Pg. 515
Pg. 515
Pg. 500-515
Realism ( 1850-1909)
Pg. 350-362
Name _____________________________ AP Eng 3
National– 1851
1859
, 1860
1865
, 1868
1876
, 1883
1893
, 1896
World Events- 1867
3
, 1857
, 1863
, 1874
, 1890
, 1898
Characteristics- pg 636 _____________ ___________ was a master of __________ _____. Later
____________ writers such as ______________ _________, William Faulkner and
____________ ________________ developed ____________ ways of making ____________
___________ about the _______________ ___________ while focusing on the _____________
setting.
Setting was important: 1. ______________ location and ___________ features such as
____________, __________, ___________ or cars. 2. Time: season or a ___________ ______
3. Jobs and ___________ _____________ o the _______________ 4. Culture including
________ and moral beliefs as well as ___________ and _______________ conditions.
Setting can be conveyed through . 1. _______________ - _______________ forms of language
spoken in _______________ areas or by particular __________ of ___________. 2. ________
_______________ of __________________.
Author
Mark Twain
(Birth – Death)
Pg. 654-657
Majors Works - Dates
Pg. 654-657
Ambrose Bierce
Pg. 592
Pg. 592
Pg. 581- 589
Abraham Lincoln
MC. Quiz
Pg. 608
Pg. 605
Pg. 605
Quotations
Pg. 678, pg. 684
Name _____________________________ AP Eng 3
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Modernism (1910-1940)
National- pg. 7411920
, 1924
World Events – pg 741 19121915
, 1919
, 1914
Characteristics- pg. 743 Women’s voices were heard. Famous writers Emily _____________,
Charlotte Perkins _________________, Kate _______________ whose novel The
________________ stepped over the line in its portrayal of a woman’s ___________
_____________. Pg. 821 The theme of the limits on some to achieve the ___________ ______
became a focus of writers such as Paul Lawrence ______________ who exposed racial
_______________ and F. _________ _____________ who wrote about the tension between the
very __________ and those who were attracted to them.
Pg. 993 Disillusioned by ____________ and appalled by the __________ of the age writers sought
to express the modern ______________. Writers felt that ____________ were becoming
increasingly ______________ by and _______________ by society. Experimented with ________
techniques such as __________ of _______________. Writers such as Ernest _____________ and
Richard ______________ composed short stories with no traditional ________________ or
___________________. Style – use of irony and understatement. Poets like Ezra ___________ and
T. S. ___________ create poetry out of ____________. Painters such as ______________,
______________ and ___________ visually captured this in their cubist designs.
Author
Kate Chopin
(Birth – Death)
Pg. 787
Majors Works - Dates
Pg. 787
Quotations
Pg. 783-786
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pg. 860
Pg 860
Pg 840- 860
Sylvia Plath
Pg 1063
Pg 1063
Pg. 1057- 1060
Pg. 63
Pg. 63
Pg. 55- 61
N. Scott Momaday
2/23/09
Name _____________________________ AP Eng 3
National- Pg. 914
1927
5
Harlem Renaissance ( 1920-1940)
, 1922
, 1929
, 1932
1921
1938
, 1923
, 1939
World Events – Pg. 914
1920
, 1933
, 1939
Characteristics- pg. 916
An _________________ period of _________, ___________ and
____________________ production among __________________ ________________ that
reached its peak in the 1920s. “New _______________ rejected ______________ claiming the
___________ to _____________ themselves. They felt a ________________ identity,
__________ in their race and its _________________ to American culture. They possessed an
_________________ consciousness like the outlook advocated by Marcus ______________
whose popular __________ ___ __________ movement called on African Americans to
_______ the ___________ _____________ and form their own ____________.
Author
(Birth – Death)
Pg. 920-926
Majors Works - Dates
Pg. 920-926
Quotations
Pg. 925-939
Pg. 958
Pg. 958
Pg. 951- 954
Pg. 944
Pg. 944
Pg. 941
Pg. 944
Pg. 944
Pg. 942
Pg. 9
Pg. 966
Pg. 960-963
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
MC Quiz
James Weldon
Johnson
Countee Cullen
James Baldwin
Post- Modernism ( 1940-1979 )
Name _____________________________ AP Eng 3
National Pg. 1070
1941
, 1945
1953
, 1954
1964
, 1965
1968
, 1969
1975
, 1977
World Events – Pg. 1070 1957
6
, 1950
, 1963
, 1967
. 1974
Characteristics- pg. 1132 After the war minority veterans _________ the same _________
they had fought to __________ ________.Civil rights advances followed and inspired
movements for justice among the ____________ ____________ farm workers and __________,
_________ Americans, feminists, and the ___________.
Author
Annie Dillard
 Pg. 89- 91
14 MC
Rodolfo Gonzalez
(Birth – Death)
( 1945 – present)
Majors Works - Dates
An American Childhood
pg. 317
1989 The Writing Life
Pg. 317
Barbara Tuchman
Pg. 201-2 15 MC
(1912 – 1989)
1966 The Proud Tower
A Distant Mirror
John Updike
*Essay Q 1 pg. 234
Pg. 1193
Pg 1180-1193
William Clark
Styron, Jr. pg 242
12 MC
John Steinbeck
(1925 – 2006)
Pg. 1094
(1957) Ex-Basketball
Player
“The First Kiss” 1979
Darkness Visible
Sophie's Choice, 1979
became movie
Pg. 1094
Martin Luther King
Jr.
Malcolm X
Pg 308
Pg 308
Pg. 1137-1145/ 301-04
Pg. 308
Pg 308
305-306
Anne Moody
Pg. 617
Pg. 617
Pg. 609- 617
Dudley Randall
Pg. 621
Pg. 621
Pg. 619- 620
Quotations
Pg. 310-314
Pg. 1088- 1093
Name _____________________________ AP Eng 3
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Multiculturalism ( 1980 - present )
National Events- pg. 1070
1981
, 1988
1991
,1995
Important Events of the 2000s____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
World Events – 1989
, 1991
1994
Important Events of the 2000s____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Characteristics- pg. 1132 Paragraph 3 Writers called for _________________
and began to _____________ and ________________ their own particular cultural identities.
Author
Cynthia Ozick
Jewish- American
Essay Q 2 pg. 249
(Birth – Death)
(1928- present)
Majors Works - Dates
1998 "Portrait of the Essay
as a Warm Body".
Maya Angelou
Pg. Essay #1 1512
Pg. 117
Pg. 117
Pg. 109-116
Pg. 1102
Pg. 1102
Pg. 1096- 1098
Pg. 1102
Pg. 1102
Pg. 1099- 1100
Pg. 1121
Pg. 1121
Pg. 119
Pg. 1199
Pg. 1199
Pg. 1195
Pg. 1199
Pg. 1199
Pg. 1197
Pg. 1222
Pg. 1222
Pg. 1216-1220
Pg. 1226
Pg. 1226
Pg. 1224
Pg. 1233
Pg. 1233
Pg. 1228-1231
Quotations
Joan Didion
Dwight Okita
Denise Levertov
Gary Soto
Pat Mora
Amy Tan
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Sandra Cisneros