Transcript Unit 3: a growing nation - Thomasville High School

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UNIT 3: A GROWING
NATION
English III
American Literature
19th Century Literature (1800-1870)
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Alexis De Tocqueville
Unit 3 Timeline
Unit 3 Objectives
Unit 3 Authors
Unit 3 Reading List
Poetry Slam
Alexis de Tocqueville
“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.”
Unit 3 Objectives:
AFTER THIS UNIT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
 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 meaning
 Evaluate the literary merit and historical significance of
American works.
 Decode vocabulary using knowledge of bases and affixes.
Unit 3 Reading List
Part 1:
Fireside &
Campfire
Part 2:
Imagination
Part 3: Human Part 4:
Spirit
Poetry
Washington Irving
The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House
of Usher
Ralph Waldo Emerson Emily Dickinson
Nature
Self-Reliance
Concord Hymn
Henry W.
Longfellow
The Tide Rises, The
Tide Falls
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister’s Black
Veil
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
William C. Bryant
Thanatopsis
Herman Melville
from Moby Dick
Mayo Angelou
John G. Whittier
Snowbound
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Nikki Giovanni
Walt Whitman
Unit 3 Timeline
Place in your NOTES section of NOTEBOOK
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1803
 Louisiana
Purchase extends nation’s territory to the Rocky
Mountains
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1804
 Lewis
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1812
 US
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& Clark begin their expedition of the West
declares war on Great Brittain “War of 1812”
1814
 Francis
Scott Key writes “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Unit 3 Timeline
Place in your NOTES section of NOTEBOOK
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1825
 Completion
and success of Erie Canal spurs canal building thru
the nation
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1829
 1st
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Steam Locomotive
1838
 U.S.
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Army marches Cherokees on “Trail of Tears” to Oklahoma
1848
 California
Gold Rush begins
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1848
 Women’s
Rights Convention held for voting rights
 Sojourner Truth speaks at this convention. “Ain’t I a
woman?”
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1850
 California
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admitted to the Union
1852
 Harriet
Beecher Stowe publishes
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 1st Anti-Slavery Novel written by white male.
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American Literature Grows Up..
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Dominated during 19th Cent. Imagination over Reason
Not really about “L-O-V-E.”  Intuition over Fact
Valued American
intellectual independence
from Europe
Held to the belief
American should create
their culture; not copy from
the Europeans
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Truth lies in the “Over-Soul”
All should have access to
divine inspiration and
knowledge
Valued women and slaves
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Unit 3 Authors
Washington Irving
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Emerson
Walt Whitman
Mayo Angelou
Longfellow, Bryant,
Whittier
Nikki Giovanni
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1783-1859
Born into wealth; was going to be a lawyer;
Traveled across America & Europe publishing &
reading
Used the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker to publish
early works
Took well-known European tales & turned them into
American classics
 Rip
Van Winkle
 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Did not die broke
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
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Herman Melville
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Walt Whitman
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Longfellow, Bryant, Whittier
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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 emotion
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Types of Poetry
 Narrative
 Dramatic
 Lyric
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Types of Poetry
Tells a Story
Lyric
Thoughts of 1 – A
sonnet, ode, or haiku
Uses drama
for 1 or more
characters
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Elements of Poetry
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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
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Rhyme – Repetition of sounds at the end of the words
Alliteration : Repetition of INITIAL
consonant sounds
Consonance:
Repetition
of what
FINAL it
Onomatopoeia
–
words
that
sound
like
Elements that enhance a poem’s meaning by
consonant sounds
means. adding musical
quality to the languages.
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Elements of Poetry
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Figure of Speech
 Simile
 “I
– compares two unlike things with like or as
wandered LONELY as a CLOUD.”
 Metaphor
 “Life
– Compares two unlike things without using like or as
is a broken-winged bird.”
 Personification
 “Let
the RAIN SING you a lullaby.”
 Oxymoron
 “Wise
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– Gives human traits to something nonhuman
– Combines two contradictory words;
fool.”
Figurative Language
 Language
used imaginatively instead of literally and includes
one or more figure of speech
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Mayo Angelou
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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
Sings
Victim & conqueror of
child molestation
Recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at Clinton
Inauguration
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Phenomenal Woman
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Nikki Giovanni
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Born in Knoxville, Tn on June 7, 1943
Attended Rutgers University
Has 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
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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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Now, take 5 minutes & write a 5th (FIFTH) Stanza to A Summer
Love Poem.
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Langston Hughes – A Raisin in the Sun
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What happens to a dream
deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
it explode?
Or festerOr
likedoes
a sore-Maybe it just sags like a heavy
And then run?
load.
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Nikki Giovanni – Def Poetry Jam
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Nikki Giovanni – Def Poetry Jam
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Ego-Trippin
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