American Literature Timeline Project - SCHOOLinSITES



American Literature Timeline Project

To help familiarize ourselves with the different periods of American literature, we will be making a class timeline. This will be a small group project. Each group will be presenting their literary period to the class. I will use the following criteria to evaluate your presentations: content, visual aids (ie, the timeline), oral delivery, and participation. We will deliver our presentations on Friday, August 14. This presentation will be worth a total of fifty points.

Each group will be given four sheets of construction paper to make your timeline. Please include the following:

On the WHITE paper:

• The name of the period

• The dates of the period

• An image that represents the period

On the YELLOW paper:

• The major beliefs and values of the period

On the GREEN paper:

• Characteristics of the literature of the period

• Major authors and/or literary works of the period

On the ORANGE paper:

• Definitions of any terms associated with your period

There are five different periods: Puritan (Pre-Colonial), Colonial/Revolutionary, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, and Modernism.

PURITAN COLONIAL ROMANTICISM

p. 130-136 p. 256-258 p. 338-342, 446-448

--The Great Awakening --Rationalism --Transcendentalism

--Puritanism --Deism --Dark Romanticism

REALISM AND NATURALISM MODERNISM

p. 554-560, 632-634 p. 912-918, 992-994

--Realism --Harlem Renaissance

--Naturalism --Jazz Age

--regional writing --alienation

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