Literary Time Periods Assignment/Groups



Literary Time Periods Assignment/Groups

Literary Time Periods—Group Research Assignment:

Since we are not taking a chronological approach to American Literature, sometimes it is difficult to understand how a book or short story fits into a time period of American Literature.  As a small group, you will be researching your assigned period/s of American Literature and will be created a two-page (single-space) handout for the class.  You should have 1-½ pages of notes and bulleted information to be presented via a powerpoint presentation.  The other half a page can be your excerpt from a piece of writing.  I will make copies of the handout for each class member.  You will be responsible for presenting this information to the class (please do NOT just read from the sheet—know your material). 

You will need to include the following:

• Explanation of genres/styles

• What ideas of the time shaped the writing?  How did the writing influence the people?

• Describe the historical context of the time period.  What “big” events/people define that period in our history?

• An excerpt/example of the style of writing

• A short list of important authors/works from that particular time period

 

I don’t want you to just copy and paste information from the Internet.  I want you to summarize and put the information into your own words.  If you do need to directly quote anything, you will need to put the text in quotation marks.  Even when you paraphrase, you will need to attribute your sources (in your handout and at the end in a works cited).

Group 1: Puritan/Colonial:

 

Group 2: Revolutionary/Age of Reason:

 

Group 3: Romanticism:

 

Group 4: American Renaissance/Transcendentalism:

 

Group 5: Realism:

 

Group 6: The Moderns/Harlem Renaissance:

 

Group 7: Postmodernism/Contemporary:

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