English III: Their Eyes Were Watching God Assessment Three
Name________________________
Date____________________________
Period______________________________________
Focus Lesson Notes
Romanticism was a ____________________________ and artistic movement in the _____________________________________
and comes from a ________________________________ desire to _________________________ from reality.
Romantics valued ______________________ and imagination instead of _________________________and
________________________________.
Romantics also had a deep respect for ____________________ and _____________________ and believed that science
was _____________________ and _____________________.
Romanticism celebrated ________________________________ and the _____________________.
Ideas of ________________________ and the ____________________ still in Europe.
Intellectual and artistic movement trying to _____________________________
In effect all over the globe from _______________ to ______________________.
Purpose of the movement is to express ____________________ through ___________________________
Changes were due to the effects of the __________________________ and _________________________________
Romantics were not in favor of __________________________ of the ____________________________.
Romantics believe in ___________________________and______________________________.
Emphasis on:
Strong relationship with:
Interests in Medieval times, the supernatural, the mysterious the _____________________ and the
_______________________and the ___________________.
Mostly a sad and ____________________ or ___________________ main topic.
Text Examples
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Work Period
Read the following poems and answer the questions below on a separate piece of paper that will be stapled to this one.
Tableau by Countee Cullen
Locked arm in arm they cross the way
The black boy and the white,
The golden splendor of the day
The sable pride of night.
From lowered blinds the dark folk stare
And here the fair folk talk,
Indignant that these two should dare
In unison to walk.
Oblivious to look and word
They pass, and see no wonder
That lightning brilliant as a sword
Should blaze the path of thunder
Questions
1. How does the poem “Tableau”
differ from the poem
“Incident”? How are the poems
similar? Cite specific evidence
from the texts to support your
response?
2. How does Cullen use setting
and diction to establish the
historical context and theme of
the poems?
3. What are two themes
associated with Cullen's poems,
and how does Cullen use
language and tone to convey
these themes?
4. How does historical context
affect a reader’s understanding
of a text?
Incident by Countee Cullen
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember.