FinalCourseStudyGuide

Final Course Content Chart:

Be certain to place literary works in their appropriate publication period, e.g. Malcolm X was READ while we studied the 1700s, but he is a writer of the 1960s to the Present period. Also, consider where larger works studied would be placed (e.g. The Crucible, Turn of the Screw, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby).


 * Time Period || Literary Period || Dominant Patterns/Formula || Relevant Literary Works || Relevant Authors/Historical Figures || Relevant Concepts and Big Ideas || Literary Terms || Unit Learning Objectives || Helpful Web Sites || Relevant Wikispaces Discussions/Activities ||
 * Pre-1600s || Native Americans || Nature

Balance/Coexistence of Good & Evil

Polytheistic

Matriarchal

Cause & Effect/Organic

Imperfection

Oral Storytelling || - World on the Turtle's Back - Song of the Sky Loom -Hunting Song -Coyote Stories -Genesis ||  || Four functions of myth: cosmological pedagogical sociological metaphysical || Cause and effect, creation myth, folk tale, metaphor, myth, repetition, trickster tale ||  || [] ||   || -"Log of Christopher Columbus" -"Of Plymouth Plantation" -"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" || Cabeza de Vaca || God Glory Gold ||  ||   ||   ||   || -To My dear and loving Husband || -John Winthrop -Anne Bradstreet -Johnathan Edwards || -city on a hill -God ||  Meter  Archaic Language  Inverted Syntax  Transcript  Bias  Loaded Language  Loaded Questions  Persuasive Writing  Logos  Ethos  Pathos  Tone  Rhetoric  Imagery  Metaphor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> End rhyme, Internal Rhyme, Meter, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Imagery ||   ||   ||   || -Declaration of Independance -What is an American? -Virginia Convention || -Thomas Jefferson -Abigale Adams -Malcolm X -Patrick Henry -John Locke - Martin Luther King Jr. ||  || ALlusion, Anaphora, Deductive, Elevated Language, Figurative language, Epistrophe, Ehtos, historical context, Inductive, Loaded Question, Logos, Major Premise, Minor Premise, Parallelism, Pathos, Persiasive rhetoric, Repetition, Rhetoric, Phetorical Question, Structure,Syllogism ||   ||   ||   || -Civil Disobedience -"Psalm of Life" -"Self-Reliance" -"I Too Hear America Singing" -"I Sit and Look Out" -"Song of Myself" || Walt Whitman Ralph Emerson Henry Thoreau ||  || Metaphor, Speaker, Paradox, Anecdote, Essay, Historical Context, Rhyme Scheme, Meter, Stanza, Nature writing, Aphorism, Imagery, Paradox, Figurative Language: metatphor, smilie, personification ||   ||   ||   || -Death -Decay -Depravity -Physical/psycological horror -Architecture -Supernatural -Time
 * Pre-1600s to Early 1600s || Exploration/Settlers ||  || -"La Relacion"
 * 1600s || Puritans ||  || -A Model of Christian Charity
 * 1700s || Enlightenment ||  || -Common Sense
 * Early to Mid 1800s || American Romanticism: Transcendentalism ||  || -Self Reliance
 * Early to Mid 1800s || American Romanticism: Gothic || Gothic Elements-

Poe's Playbook- -Narrator -De-emphasis of death -Claustrophobia -Buried Alive -Loss of Beautiful woman -Hieghtened Senses || -The Raven -The Tell Tale Heart -Masque of the Red Death -Minister's Black Vail -Dr. Heideger's Experiment || Edgar Allen Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne ||  || Allegory, Allusion,Archetype,Flashback,Form,Iambic,Imagery, Metaphor, Meter,Mood, || Gothic Fiction is a movement that both connects and distances itself from earlier American literature, as it reflects the darker side of individualism and questions human connection to self and good/evil. ||  || Poe the Literary Critic Discussion

Disturbia Discussion || -The Devil and Tom Walker ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || -Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge || Mark Twain ||  || Allusion,Dialect, Flashback,Foreshadowing, Irony,Narrator,Structure,Style,Suspense Symbol,Verisimlitude,Thrid Person Omnisicent Tone,Third Person Limited Vernacular || Understand the social context in which realsim was born.
 * Early to Mid 1800s || Washington Irving ||  || -Rip Van Winkle
 * Mid to Late 1800s || American Realism ||  || -Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * Understand realism is a reflection of human experiences “as they are” not “as they ought to be”
 * Understand important and radical differences between realistic and romantic text
 * Understand realism and naturalism often parody or satirize the romantic formula
 * Understand the social context in which realism was born
 * Understand the societal reaction to realism and its writers
 * Understand the differences between realism and naturalism ||  ||   ||
 * Mid to Late 1800s || American Naturalism ||  || "The Open Boat"

"To Build a Fire" || -Stephen Crane

-Jack London ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   || "I Too", Life for My Child is Simple", "If We must Die", "Harlem", "The Lynching", " Weary Blues" || -Langston Hughes -Zora Neale Hurston -Claude McKay -Gwendolyn Brooks || Obstacles -poverty -racism Equality -civil liberty (having it or being denied it) Empowerment - celebrating culture || Anaphora,diction,Imagery,Metaphor,Mood. Paradox,Personification,Rhythm,Smiles,Sonnet Speaker,Structure,Style,Theme,Tone || Demonsstrate Knowledge of major texts and period in African-American Literature, such as slave Narrtives,the Harlem Renaissance, and Black Arts Movement ||  ||   ||
 * Late 1800s to 1900s || Emerging African American Voice ||  || "We wear the Mask",
 * 1900-1950 || Modern American Literature ||  || The Great Gatsby || Scott Fitzgerald || Idealism v.s. Pragmatism

Spirituality v.s Materialism

New Morality

Blindness v.s Sight

Old Money v.s. New Money ||  ||   ||   ||   || "Strive Toward Freedom" "Necessary to Protect Ourselves" || <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Arthur Miller ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1950s to Present || Contemporary American Literature ||  || The Crucible