How do America’s major literary movements prove the necessity of literature and help us understand our place in society?

Name:____________________________

In your journal, look back at your notes on What is Literature For? And How and Why We Read Literature? Watch the videos again and re-answer the questions using your original ideas and what you think now.

1. Who wrote “Nature”? What did you think when we read this in class?

2. Who wrote “Resistance to Civil Government”? What did you think when we read this in class?

3. Read “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and identify three elements of Transcendentalism by color coordinating the lines that correspond with the statements you select.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.

Basic truths are arrived at through intuition.

The inner soul leads to truth.

Nature leads to self-knowledge.

Nature is good in comparison with society.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

The mind is all we need.

Be an individual.

4. Define the following: a. Ethos:

b. Logos:

c. Pathos:

5. Explain which type of appeal Banksy is using in this painting and why you think so.

6. What did Kurt Vonnegut write that we read in class? What did you think of this story?

7. What did Ray Bradbury write that we read in class? Did you like it or not? Why?

8. Read “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury and explain in a paragraph at least three of the dystopian elements you identify in the story. Make sure the you use quotations to support your answer and underline the elements you are describing.

The story is futuristic.

There is an illusion of a perfect society.

Information, independent thought and freedom are restricted.

Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.

Citizens live in a dehumanized state.

Individuality and dissent are bad.

The protagonist is struggling to escape.

The protagonist questions the existing political systems.

The protagonist helps the audience recognize the negative aspects of the dystopian world.

9. Define Everyman:

10. Which non-fiction story that we did the SOAPSSE on in class stood out to you the most? Why do you think that was?

11. Watch the music video from Seafret’s “Oceans” and explain how one of the characters shown there meets at least two of the characteristics of an everyman.

An ordinary individual the reader easily identifies with.

Placed in extraordinary circumstances.

Devoid of definite marks of individuality.

A universal experience.

Moral message to the story.“Reader” can imagine self in the same situation.

Character reacts realistically in the situation.

12. Who wrote “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”? Did you like the story? Why or why not?

13. Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? Why is this significant?

14. What are the two types of Realism? In which type did Mark Twain write and what novel exemplifies this?

15. How did Realism react to Transcendentalism? How is it different? Using one of the slave narratives (Holt p. 399-410) we read in class, explain in a paragraph or vivid color illustration (ex. p. 400) how at least two realism elements were used.

Depict the world without being too preachy.

Looks past myths and assumptions to focus on the real world.

Focus on lower and middle class.

Depict the gritty details.

Widespread information made it difficult to romanticize.

Belief that good writing could change the world.

16. What were two ideals that Modernists focused on?

17. What female author was both a Psychological Realist and a part of the Modernist movement? What story did she write that we read in class?

18. What novel did we read with a Modernist author? Who was the author? Did you like the book or not? Why?

19. How does Salvador Dali’s painting show at least three of the elements of Modernism? Circle the elements you see in the painting and explain how the element is shown in the boxes to the left, right, and below. Use arrows to clarify which description goes with which circle in the painting.

The work breaks structure in comparisons with others.

The work questions truth, authority, and/or reality.

Fragmentation is used.

Stereotypes are updated from traditional roles.

20. What is suffrage? Who is an example of a suffragist that we learned about in class?

21. Reflect back on our readings, “Femininity,” “I Want a Wife,” “And Ain’t I a Woman,” “About Men,” and “God Made a Farmer” which was your favorite and why?

22. Write a gothic poem about the picture shown here using at least 3 of the gothic elements and 1 vocabulary from each of the seven sections of vocabulary of the gothic listed. Label the elements used, and underline the words as you use them.

Gothic Elements

● Atmosphere of mystery and suspense

● an ancient prophecy● omens, portents, visions● supernatural or otherwise

inexplicable events● overwrought emotion● women in distress● women threatened by a

powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male

● metonymy of gloom and horror

Your Poem Gothic Vocabulary

Mystery: diabolical, haunted, infernal, necromancer, ominous, portent, preternatural, prodigy, prophecy, talisman

Fear, Terror, or Sorrow:affliction,

commiseration, despair, dismal, frantic, grief, lamentable

Surprise: astonished, astonishment, thunderstruck, wonder

Haste: anxious, hastened, hastily, impetuosity, precipitately,

Anger: choler, furious, fury, incensed, raving, resentment, temper, wrath

Largeness: enormous, gigantic, giant, large, tremendous, vast

Darkness: dark, darkness, dismal, shaded, black, night

24. Select one of the Norman Rockwell paintings and apply the Identifying the Theme in Five Steps directions by imagining the story represented in the painting. Use the title to get you started.

Girl at the Mirror

Breaking Home Ties

The Problem We All Live With

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25. Define each of the following:

Wise Fool

Villain

Mentor

Hero

Everyman

26. Select one of the pictures, color it neatly and completely, label which archetype you think the character best fits and explain in a paragraph on the back of the picture how the character meets the definition. Attach it to this packet.

27. Complete the crossword of literary devices and attach it to this packet.

28. Read “Nasty School” by Shel Silverstein and label on the copy of the poem with at least three of the devices used. Attach it to this packet.

29. Write a letter to Mrs. Leonetti or Miss Frost explaining one thing you liked about the class that you would keep, one thing you didn’t like that you would change considering our essential question.

Essential Question: How do America’s

major literary movements prove

Dear ______________________________,

the necessity of literature and help us understand our place in society?

Sincerely, ___________________________________