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FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE

Explore the origins of American literature, key writers & works of Romanticism like Irving, Poe, Emerson. Discuss transcendentalism, "Self-Reliance," and literary concepts.

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FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE

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  1. FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE

  2. FINAL EXAM • Part 1: Test (100 points) • Part 2: Socratic Seminar (Level 2) (50 points) • We will spend Monday and Tuesday preparing for both.

  3. “A Growing Nation” Introduction to Romanticism The beginnings of American literature the big chart on American Romanticism the “big ideas” questions characteristics of romanticism American literature timeline FOR THE FINAL EXAM:

  4. The “BIG IDEAS” • When andin what ways did AMERICAN literature first begin to differentiate itself from European writing? • How did early American literature begin to define what “American” means? • Who were the first influential writers of American literature? • What did they write? • Why was their work important? • How is it an example of romanticism?

  5. Washington Irving biography The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Vocabulary vice literati pedagogue Literary Concepts: exposition FOR THE FINAL EXAM:

  6. Edgar Allan Poe Biography film “The Raven” Reading Points for Sharper Insights “The Tell-Tale Heart” Vocabulary tuberculosis kindred 40 vocab words from “The Raven” Literary Concepts: assonance alliteration internal rhyme stanza parody FOR THE FINAL EXAM:

  7. “New England Renaissance” Transcendentalism tenets of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography Nature “Self Reliance” Vocabulary from the Study Guide to Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo Emerson FOR THE FINAL EXAM:

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