We have concluded our study of The Crucible by Arthur Miller and we will now be moving on to a survey study of Romanticism and the off shoots of it (transcendalism and gothic)
By the end of this unit, you will understand what Romanticism is and how it helped to shape our American literature... and in essence how beliefs during this time period helped to shape the writing.
I am hoping to have each of you complete a bunch of readings, and writings (original poetry in the style of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and an original short story using romantic elements)
Throughout we will continue our work with writing essays
The next full length novel we will be reading is Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I am shooting to have you have it before the break so that you can possibly read it over break. It is a modern book that examines our concept of beauty.
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