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ISACS Survey

ISACS Survey. On the Edline homepage, there is a link to the survey All answers are Important Anonymous 20-45 minutes. DNP: 10/21/2013. Clear your desks for WWW #37 Pick up a marker Period 4: Turn in your paper revisions (with your original drafts). America after the 18 th century….

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ISACS Survey

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  1. ISACS Survey • On the Edline homepage, there is a link to the survey • All answers are • Important • Anonymous • 20-45 minutes

  2. DNP: 10/21/2013 • Clear your desks for WWW #37 • Pick up a marker • Period 4: Turn in your paper revisions (with your original drafts)

  3. America after the 18th century… • Optimistic • Democracy empowers the individual • Clash of ideals and reality • Writers explore both extremes • Individualism • Darker sides of a fragmenting society • Economically prosperous  MATERIALISM

  4. The Romantics’ Relationship with Nature • Elevate nature as a sanctuary • Pure, not artificial • Often illustrate the egotistical, futile and destructive aspects of their questing heroes • Concerned with the loss of the frontier • “Manifest Destiny” CONTRAST with the PURITANS who viewed nature as a fallen “wilderness” full of “savage” Indians

  5. 1800

  6. 1820

  7. Homework: • Read “The Devil and Tom Walker” • Make sure you can answer the reading comprehension questions • Topics for discussion: • Role of the setting, specifically the forest • Examples/purpose of satire

  8. SATIRE in “The Devil and Tom Walker”

  9. A Definition • SATIRE – Literature that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to exposes or mock the stupidity or recklessness of people or societies

  10. Satire in the Tall Tale • The main object of Washington Irving’s satire is greedy people, especially those whose wealth is ill-gotten or gained through the bad luck of others. • Irving pokes fun at this type of person through his exaggerated characterization of Tom and his wife.

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