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Unit 3: a growing nation

19th Century Literature (1800-1870)

English III American Literature

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Alexis De Tocqueville

Unit 3 Objectives

Unit 3 Authors

Unit 3 Reading List

Unit 3 Timeline

Poetry Slam

Ghost Stories & Urban Legend Slide3

“America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement….No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.”

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Unit 3 Objectives:

Make inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.Make cultural connections between works, self, and related topics

Analyze characteristics of literary genres in the U.S. and how the selection of genre shapes meaningEvaluate the literary merit and historical significance of American works. Decode vocabulary using knowledge of bases and affixes.

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Part

1: Fireside & Campfire

Part 2: ImaginationPart 3:

Human SpiritPart 4: PoetryWashington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall of the House of Usher Ralph Waldo EmersonNatureSelf-Reliance

Concord HymnEmily Dickinson Henry W. LongfellowThe Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

Nathaniel

Hawthorne

The Minister’s Black Veil

Henry David

Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

Walt Whitman

William C. BryantThanatopsis

Herman Melvillefrom Moby DickMayo Angelou

John G. WhittierSnowboundHarriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Nikki GiovanniUnit 3 Reading ListSlide6

Unit 3 Timeline

Place in your NOTES section of NOTEBOOK1803

Louisiana Purchase extends nation’s territory to the Rocky Mountains1804Lewis & Clark begin their expedition of the West1812

US declares war on Great Brittain “War of 1812”1814Francis Scott Key writes “The Star-Spangled Banner.”Slide7

1825Completion and success of Erie Canal spurs canal building thru the nation

18291st Steam Locomotive1838

U.S. Army marches Cherokees on “Trail of Tears” to Oklahoma1848California Gold Rush begins

Unit 3 TimelinePlace in your NOTES section of NOTEBOOK

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1848

Women’s Rights Convention held for voting rights Sojourner Truth speaks at this convention. “Ain’t I a woman?”1850

California admitted to the Union1852Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1

st Anti-Slavery Novel written by white male.

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Place in NOTES section of NOTEBOOK

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American Literature Grows Up..

Dominated during 19th

Cent. Not really about “L-O-V-E.”

Imagination over Reason Intuition over FactValued American intellectual independence from Europe

Held to the belief American should create their culture; not copy from the EuropeansTruth lies in the “Over-Soul”All should have access to divine inspiration and knowledgeValued women and slaves

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Romanticism

New England Renaissance

TranscendentalismSlide10

Unit 3 Authors

Washington Irving

Walt Whitman

Robert Frost

Herman Melville

Emily Dickinson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mayo Angelou

Emerson

Edgar Allan Poe

Nikki Giovanni

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1783-1859

Born into wealth; was going to be a lawyer;

Traveled across America & Europe publishing & readingUsed the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker to publish early worksTook well-known European tales & turned them into American classics

Rip Van WinkleThe Legend of Sleepy HollowDid not die broke

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

The Headless Horseman’s Tale

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

The Headless Horseman’s Tale

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Edgar Allan Poe

1809-1849Celebrated and Hated Deadbeat father; mother died at an early age

Addicted to gambling The Originator – The Original Stephen KingShort StoryDetective Story

Psychological Theater

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The narrator (unnamed) visits his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who is deathly ill.

Roderick’s twin sister has just died and buries sister, with the help of our narrator in the mansion’s basement. Both begin to hear strange noisesRoderick says that sister might have been alive when they buried her. Sister escapes coffin; scares Roderick to death and dies

Narrator flees house scared to DEATH.

The Fall of the House of Usher

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The Fall of the House of Usher

LITERARY ANALYSISThe Single Effect: A story that achieves a certain unique or SINGLE EFFECT

Every character, action, word, incident, and detail should be about that Single Effect.Questions to ask yourself as you read? Is seeing believing or believing seeing?How does the changes in the house as the story progress add to the story’s overall effect?

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House of usher - 1960

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House of usher - 1960

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Herman Melville

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Walt Whitman

1819-1892Loved and hated by critics and readersFired because he opposed slavery

Inspired of Emerson Defined a poet as: “The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he absorbed it. “

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Walt’s Barbaric Yawp

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Robert Frost

1874-1963Held several jobs in his lifetimeFrost’s fame came later in life

Very down-to-earth poetTerrified of public speakingParticipated in the inauguration of President John F. KennedyConsidered the “unofficial” poet laureate of the U.S.

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Robert Frost –

Fire and Ice

Some

say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate

To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

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Langston Hughes

1902-1967Named class poet of his 8th grade class

Influenced by Carl Sandberg and Walt WhitmanHughes was a key contributor in the Harlem RenaissanceUses blues & jazz to give life to his poetry

Known as the “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race.”

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Langston Hughes – I Dream a World

I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn.

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dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom's way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor avarice blights our day. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head And joy, like a pearl, Attends the needs of all mankind-- Of such I dream, my world!

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Emily Dickinson

1830-1886Wrote 1,775 poems only 7 published BEFORE her deathShy woman – often wrote anonymously

Active childhood – became a recluse as an adultIn 1874 after her father’s death, she seldom left her house for ten yearsIn her will, requested that her poems be destroyed

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Literary Analysis

Exact Rhyme: 2 words have identical sounds in their final accented syllabusSlant Rhyme: Final sounds are similar but NOT identical.

Emily Dickinson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is Poetry?

Carefully chosen words that express a great depth of meaning.

Poetry uses specific devices like connotation, sound, and rhythm to express the combination of meaning and emotionTypes of Poetry NarrativeDramatic

Lyric

Welcome to Poetry Jam

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Types of Poetry

Tells a Story

Uses drama for 1 or more characters

Thoughts of 1 – A sonnet, ode, or haiku

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Elements of Poetry

Groups of poetic lines are called stanzas. Imagery

Language that uses images Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the senses

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Sound Devices

I couldn’t be right after your

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D

on't

delay dawns

d

isarming

d

isplay

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though

Belch

Achoo

Moo

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there

nightmare.

Elements that enhance a poem’s meaning by adding musical quality to the languages.

Rhyme – Repetition of sounds at the end of the words

Alliteration : Repetition of INITIAL consonant sounds

Consonance: Repetition of FINAL consonant sounds

Onomatopoeia – words that sound like what it means. Slide34

Introducing Jay Fizzle

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Dear Father by

J.Ivy

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Figure of Speech

Simile – compares two unlike things with like or as“I wandered LONELY as a CLOUD.”

Metaphor – Compares two unlike things without using like or as“Life is a broken-winged bird.”

Personification – Gives human traits to something nonhuman“Let the RAIN SING you a lullaby.”Oxymoron – Combines two contradictory words; “Wise fool.” Figurative LanguageLanguage used imaginatively instead of literally and includes one or more figure of speech

Elements of Poetry

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Mayo Angelou

Born April 4, 1928

Called “America’s most visible black female autobiographer.” Wrote 6 (SIX) Autobiography

Most famous work – I Know Why The Caged Bird SingsVictim & conqueror of child molestationRecited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at Clinton Inauguration

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Phenomenal Woman

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Nikki Giovanni

Born in Knoxville, Tn on June 7, 1943

Attended Rutgers UniversityHas a tattoo honoring Tupac Shakur that says “Thug Life”

Spoke to the Virginia Tech student body after the Virginia Tech massacre “We know we did nothing to deserve it. But neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS. Neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory. Neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water...We are Virginia Tech...We will prevail”

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Love is

Some people forget that love is tucking you in and kissing you

"Good night" no matter how young or old you are Some people don't remember that

love is listening and laughing and asking questions no matter what your age

Few recognize that love is commitment, responsibility no fun at all unless Love is

You and me

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A Summer Love Poem

Clouds float by on a summer sky I hop scotch over to you

Rainbows arch from ground to gold I climb over to you

Thunder grumbles, lightning tumbles And I bounce over to you Sun beams back and catches me Smiling over at you

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A Summer Love Poem

By Us

Now, take 5 minutes & write a 5

th

(FIFTH) Stanza to A Summer Love Poem.

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Langston Hughes – A Raisin in the Sun

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over--

like a syrupy sweet?

Or fester like a sore--

And then run?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load

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Or does it explode?

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Nikki Giovanni – Def Poetry Jam

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Nikki Giovanni – Def Poetry Jam

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Ego-Trippin

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Ghost Stories & Urban Legends

Is Believing Seeing…

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What is an Urban Legend

A cautionary or moralistic tale passed along orally.

The legend stems from an incident that befell individuals personally or an acquaintance.

Urban legends are set in contemporary times85% of all urban legends are based on ACTUAL accounts.

Some people Some people don’t. Is Seeing believing or believing? Slide49

In 1987, a particularly nightmarish haunting occurred in Southington, Connecticut, to a family that had just moved in to a long empty house on Meriden Avenue.

Soon after settling in, the family discovered a small graveyard in back, an embalming chamber in the basement, and drawers full of creepy corpse photographs: their new house had previously been a Funeral Home dating back to the 1920s.

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An Urban Legend that’s trueSlide50

Almost immediately, the family began to experience paranormal activity – strange sounds, changes in temperature, and the appearance of mysterious figures

As the family's lives and sanity were pushed to the edge, the mother contacted Ed and Lorraine Warren for help. The duo had investigated the famed Amityville Horror case.

Through their help, the family was able to uncover the terrible secrets lurking in the house and to confront the most shocking evil spirits ever seen in an American haunting.

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An Urban Legend that’s trueSlide51

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Local Urban Legends.

North Carolina has several hundred urban legends & ghosts stories.Ever heard of….

The Light at Maco Station

The Brown Mountain Lights

The Devil’s Tramping Ground

A Haunting in Connecticut

The Lovel

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A Haunting – The Interactive Game

Find the clues hidden in this spooky game. Click on the Ghost’s Head to begin……