mystics, wanderers, and a trip down the mississippi

Mystics, Wanderers, and a Trip Down the Mississippi

4 October 2012

The tiger usually (A) hunts by night and feeds (B) on a variety of animals, but it (C) prefers fairly large prey such as (D) deer and wild pigs.

No error (E)

ActivatorList three to five things

that you learned during “The Amazing Race”.

Activating StrategyRecord a response to

each of the following pictures.

Activating Strategy1. List at least two emotions that each painting makes you feel.2. Which picture did you like best? Why?

Remember… (timeline)

pre-Columbus - 1840

Remember… (timeline)

1620-1776

I. Revolutionary Period and Nationalism (timeline)

1750-1815

I. Revolutionary Period and Nationalism

A. Revolutionary Period – when the American colonies joined together to break free from the British government


A. Revolutionary Period – when the American colonies joined together to break free from the British government

*formed the United States of America


B. Nationalism – patriotism, loyalty to one’s country


B. Nationalism – patriotism, loyalty to one’s country

*after the Revolutionary War, people began to be proud of being from the U.S.A. and focused on what it meant to be an American


Major authors: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine

I. Revolutionary Period and Nationalism REVIEW

List three points about this time period WITHOUT looking at your notes.

II. Romanticism (timeline)

1800-1840

II. RomanticismA. Age of Enlightenment: in the 1700s, science advanced very quickly and people began to believe that science/reason were more important than faith/religion vs

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II. RomanticismA. Age of Enlightenment: in the 1700s, science advanced very quickly and people began to believe that science/reason were more important than faith/religion

*results: dictionaries, Industrial Revolution, population growth

II. RomanticismB. Romanticists – rejected these ideas


* believed that feelings were more important than reason or logic

vs.


* believed that feelings were more important than reason or logic

* valued individualism, nature, imagination, creativity, and

emotions


* valued individualism, nature, imagination, creativity, and

emotions

* believed that studying nature led to an authentic understanding of truth and beauty


* city vs. countryside

- city: poor morals and corruption, rational thought


* city vs. countryside

- city: poor morals and corruption, rational thought

- countryside: moral clarity, imagination

RomanticismMajor authors: Herman Melville (Moby-Dick), Washington Irving (“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Rip Van Winkle”)

Romanticism Review – Love/Hate

Think about the views of the Romanticists. List two things that they agreed and two that they disagreed with.

Two each:Agree Disagree1.2.

1.2.

III. Transcendentalism (timeline)

1830s-1850

III. TranscendentalismA. Creation of Transcendentalism

* Ralph Waldo Emerson

* New England

III. TranscendentalismB. Beliefs

* to discover the truth about God, nature, yourself, and everything else, you must listen to your intuition


* to discover the truth about God, nature, yourself, and everything else, you must listen to your intuition

- intuition=“listen to your heart”


* all of the natural world was a reflection of a Divine Soul (God)



- nature was the gateway to the Divine Soul



- nature was the gateway to the Divine Soul

- God is good, death is a part of life, optimistic


* relying on yourself and being an individual were the most important ways to live


* relying on yourself and being an individual were the most

important ways to live

- authority, society’s rules, and rational/scientific thought only

kept people from being themselves

III. Transcendentalism

Major authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson (“Self-Reliance”), Henry David Thoreau (“Walden”, “Civil Disobedience”)

IV. Realism (timeline)

1850-1900

IV. Realism- 1850: Fugitive Slave Act

IV. Realism (timeline)

- 1850: Fugitive Slave Act- Women’s Rights

Movement: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Candy Stanton

IV. Realism- 1859: Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species”

- theory of evolution, biology became the focus of science

IV. Realism- 1861-1865: U.S. Civil War

IV. Realism- 1850: U.S. population is 23 million

IV. Realism- 1850: U.S. population is 23 million

- 1900: population is 76 million

IV. RealismA. Definition of Realism – writers began to write about all of these issues that were affecting their country and their lives

IV. RealismA. Definition of Realism – writers began to write about all of these issues that were affecting their country and their lives

- issues: evolution (and developments in science), industrial development, civil war, racism, enormous cities, corrupt politicians, etc.

IV. RealismB. Goals of Realism

* represent the everyday world like it really is



* show ordinary people



* show ordinary people

* interested in science, psychology, and social issues

IV. Realism*Example: Frederick Douglass

- escaped slave

- slaveholders said that slaves were not smart enough to live in regular society

- Douglass learned to read and write, published books, and was a dynamic speaker

- thus, he proved the slaveholders wrong

IV. RealismC. Regionalism

* focused on a particular area of the country



* wanted to show local color and ways of life



* wanted to show local color and ways of life

* sometimes sentimental and unrealistic

Review3 – literary movements

2 – common themes

1 – question that you have about something that we learned today

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