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)
Activator
List three to five things that you
learned during “The Amazing Race”.
Activating Strategy
Record a response to each of
the following pictures.
Activating Strategy
1. 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
I. Revolutionary Period and
Nationalism
A. Revolutionary Period – when the
American colonies joined together to
break free from the British government
*formed the United States of
America
I. Revolutionary Period and
Nationalism
B. Nationalism – patriotism, loyalty to
one’s country
I. Revolutionary Period and
Nationalism
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
I. Revolutionary Period and
Nationalism
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. Romanticism
A. 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.
II. Romanticism
A. 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. Romanticism
B. Romanticists – rejected these ideas
II. Romanticism
B. Romanticists – rejected these ideas
* believed that feelings were more
important than reason or logic
vs.
II. Romanticism
B. Romanticists – rejected these ideas
* believed that feelings were more
important than reason or logic
* valued individualism, nature,
imagination, creativity, and emotions
II. Romanticism
B. Romanticists – rejected these ideas
* valued individualism, nature,
imagination, creativity, and emotions
* believed that studying nature led to
an authentic understanding of truth
and beauty
II. Romanticism
B. Romanticists – rejected these ideas
* city vs. countryside
- city: poor morals and corruption,
rational thought
II. Romanticism
B. Romanticists – rejected these ideas
* city vs. countryside
- city: poor morals and corruption,
rational thought
- countryside: moral clarity,
imagination
Romanticism
Major authors: Herman Melville (MobyDick), 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
1.
2.
Disagree
1.
2.
III. Transcendentalism
(timeline)
1830s-1850
III. Transcendentalism
A. Creation of Transcendentalism
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* New England
III. Transcendentalism
B. Beliefs
* to discover the truth about God,
nature, yourself, and everything else,
you must listen to your intuition
III. Transcendentalism
B. Beliefs
* to discover the truth about God,
nature, yourself, and everything else,
you must listen to your intuition
- intuition=“listen to your heart”
III. Transcendentalism
B. Beliefs
* all of the natural world was a
reflection of a Divine Soul (God)
III. Transcendentalism
B. Beliefs
* all of the natural world was a
reflection of a Divine Soul (God)
- nature was the gateway to the
Divine Soul
III. Transcendentalism
B. Beliefs
* all of the natural world was a
reflection of a Divine Soul (God)
- nature was the gateway to the Divine
Soul
- God is good, death is a part of life,
optimistic
III. Transcendentalism
B. Beliefs
* relying on yourself and being an
individual were the most important
ways to live
III. Transcendentalism
B. Beliefs
* 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. Realism
A. Definition of Realism – writers began
to write about all of these issues that were
affecting their country and their lives
IV. Realism
A. 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. Realism
B. Goals of Realism
* represent the everyday world like it
really is
IV. Realism
B. Goals of Realism
* represent the everyday world like it
really is
* show ordinary people
IV. Realism
B. Goals of Realism
* represent the everyday world like it
really is
* 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. Realism
C. Regionalism
* focused on a particular area of the
country
IV. Realism
C. Regionalism
* focused on a particular area of the
country
* wanted to show local color and
ways of life
IV. Realism
C. Regionalism
* focused on a particular area of the
country
* wanted to show local color and ways
of life
* sometimes sentimental and
unrealistic
Review
3 – literary movements
2 – common themes
1 – question that you have about
something that we learned today