Romantic Review

Review for Test on Romanticism

1 – Be able to discuss with examples how Emerson (Nature and Self-Reliance)  and Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience fit the ideas of Transcendentalism.  You will need to be able to pick out  a theme for each essay and use specific examples.

2 – Discuss the meaning of the “A Psalm of Life”, “The Tide Falls”, “The Chambered Nautilus” and “Old Ironsides”.  Be able to analysis rhyme scheme, stanza structure, and metaphor in each poem.  Also apply the question: What gives life purpose to the poems.

3 – List the elements of American Gothic literature and give examples of these elements in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and The Scarlet Letter.

4 – Be able to discuss the following questions as connected to the literature of the Romantic Period:

“Is the price of progress ever too high?”

“Is it patriotic to protest one’s government?”

“Does everyone have a dark side?”

“Where do people look for the truth?”

Thursday, Friday and Monday

Thursday

We will read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow pages 342 - 346.  Answer questions 1-7 on page 347.


Friday

We will read Oliver Wendell Holmes pages 348 - 352.  Answer questions 1-4 and 6 on page 353. 


Monday

Read Poe 410 - 431.  Briefly write a blog entry where you summarize the Romantic Gothic elements in the story.  Look at page 312 if you need to review Romantic Gothic ideas. 

American Literature

Learning Goal: Students will evaluate purposes and arguments in works of public advocacy.

Today we will read "Woman in the Nineteenth Century", discuss the Fuller's arguments and then answer questions on page 408 (#1-5).

Learning Goal: RI2, Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how they develop over the course of the text

Today's Objective: Identify Emerson's theme in "Nature" and discuss how he expands upon the idea. 

What we will do today: Read the background information of Emerson, read the essay "Nature", discuss the theme and ways he develops it. 

Do questions 2,3, 5 and 7. 

Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance"

Learning Goal: RI2, Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how they develop over the course of the text

Today's Objective: Identify Emerson's theme in "Self-Reliance" and discuss how he expands upon the idea. 

What we will do today: Read the background information of Emerson, read the essay "Self-Reliance" discuss the theme and ways he develops it. 


On page 375 answer questions 1, 4, 5 and 6.

Civil Disobedience

Learning Goal: Determine the central ideas of a text and analyze their development; provide an objective summary of the text.

Today's Objective: Read "from Civil Disobedience" and determine the theme that Thoreau develops and then write a summary of the text using specific examples to back up your ideas.

 

Also, please turn in your Scarlet Letter essay!  

Walden

Learning Goal: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development; provide an objective summary of the text.

Today's Objective: Read "from Walden" and determine two themes that Thoreau develops and then write these themes and how Thoreau develops them with a summary of the text.

HW: questions 1-4, 6 and 7 on page 388.

We will be reading Thoreau for the next few days.  He is the most important essayists of the 19th century - so important that the two essays you're read hit Common Core Standards RI2, RI4, RI5, RI6, and RI9.

Smile. 

Scarlet Letter ESSAYS

Today is your last day to work on these in class.

They are due on Friday! 

Examples

In the Scarlet Letter, the theme of exile transforms the characters of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. 

In the Scarlet Letter, the "A" on Hester's chest represents Hester, herself, and reflect her transformation - from Adulterer to Able to Absolution.  The "A" is Hester's soul. 

In the Scarlet Letter, Pearl represents the theme of forgiveness.  She is the force sent - like a female Christ figure - to allow Hester and Dimmesdale to be saved from their sin.