Analyzing Art and Literature in the United States - Romanticism and Transcendentalism

2. Express yourself in ART and Literature • Choose one of the pictures (A-D) • Analyze your picture • Share your findings • Rate it from 10-1 (10 being the best entertaining piece of art or literature, do you enjoy the piece?)

3. Answer • In picture A, I think it rates a ____ because… • In picture B, I think it rates a ____ because…. • In picture C, I think it rates a ____because… • In picture D, I think it rates a ____ because…

4. Overview Discussion • What did you see happening with art and literature in the United States? • Who are some of the authors? Do you know any of them? • What do you think romanticism is? • What is transcendentalism?

5. Dolley Saved This... What do you see? What is the topic? Is it political, economic, or social?

6. Before 1800

7. Art in the U.S. • Art after 1800 • Style is known as “romanticism” • Draws artists from Hudson River Art School • Landscapes of nature, the west, our future Art before 1800 • Very dull • Very political • Portraits of important people

8. Art in the US (1800-1860)

9. Reflect • Most people would enjoy the new style of art of the Romanticism period because………

10. American Writing Before 1800 • Mayflower Compact • Declaration of Independence • Common Sense, The Crisis • Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Great Compromise • Constitution • The Federalist Papers • What is the best way to describe these works?

11. Why does America change?(1800-1860) • Industrial Revolution gave people more free time. • People began to read for entertainment • Writers celebrated America’s past.

12. Washington Irving • Rip Van Winkle • Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Fiction stories about America’s past

13. James Fenimore Cooper • His books celebrated the American Wilderness • Last of the Mohicans • The Oregon Trail

14. Noah Webster • American Dictionary of the English Language • Gave American, not British spellings of words • Examples: music not musik, theater not theatre, center not centre, honor not honour

15. Other Writers Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. ….. You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled,--How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again, Under the trees at the turn of the road. And only pausing to fire and load. • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Paul Revere’s Ride

16. Still More… • Edgar Allan Poe –Terrifying tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne –Scarlet Letter • Herman Melville – Moby Dick

17. Reflect • Most people would enjoy the new style of literature of the Romanticism period because………

18. Watch Video and answer questions

19. Have out yesterday’s sheet; as well as, the new sheet for today!

20. Ralph Waldo Emerson • A New England writer encouraged Americans to take pride in their culture • Teacher

21. Henry David Thoreau • A student of Emerson • He wrote about his life in Walden • Believed in Transcendentalism-the spiritual world is more important than the physical world • Due to the Mexican-American War, he taught civil disobedience-peacefully refusing to obey laws for a political protest; non-violent

27. Henry David Thoreau Fight issues, but not with violence Use peaceful protest Be prepared to face the consequences of your actions Influenced Ghandi, and Martin Luther King Jr. • Civil Disobedience

28. Henry David Thoreau • “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears…” - Henry David Thoreau, The Walden

29. John Audubon • French-American • ornithologist, • naturalist, and painter. • expansive studies detailing illustrations of birds in their natural habitats.

30. Reforms • Change, Change, Change • Please get a Chromebook and go to my website • Have out the REFORM sheet from Friday on your desk

31. Setting – Cane Ridge, KY • In 1801 a series of large, outdoor, religious meetings were held in Kentucky. Mass revivals later spread through the other western states. The movement became known as the Second Great Awakening. Religious passion intensified. Church membership soared. The Awakening also helped spark an era of social reforms. • Let’s go there….

32. Welcome to Cane Ridge, Kentucky Hello, I’m Charles Finney! Please read Document 1 – Is this movement social, economic, or political? Please read Document 3 – In3: What is a revival?

33. His Word was… • Choose God • Avoid sin at all costs • And make the world a better place.

34. Reforms 1. Second Great Awakening – religious movement to “reform” America or REVIVAL. 2. Religious groups thought they could “improve” the American society. 3. People had the time to do extra for society, more money and more interaction with each other.

35. Statement • I think the _______________reform movement was the most influential because…………

36. Arrange the CARDS… • TERM, Definition, PICTURE, Effect

37. Education Mandatory attendance Textbooks Teacher training

38. Overall Effect • Public Education – provided U.S. children a free education, enhances society overall

39. Caring for the Needy Dorothea Dix – Caring for the disabled Clara Barton – American Red Cross

40. Overall Effect • American Red Cross – still exists today, helps families in need • Public Mental Health Hospitals caring for patients with mental issues

41. Worker’s Rights Limit hours Safer working conditions No children

42. Overall Effect • Workers are protected with unions, laws protecting hours, wages, working conditions, etc.

43. Temperance An attempt to ban alcohol 18th Amendment 21st Amendment

44. Overall Effect • Even though the passage of the 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st – a movement is still present trying to education the effects of alcohol, very tough/strict laws are in place prosecuting offenders of alcohol

45. Abolition Attempts of individuals to do something about slavery Frederick Douglass – speaker Harriet Tubman – Underground Railroad William Lloyd Garrison – The Liberator Newspaper

46. Overall Effect • What these people started was a movement to END slavery, eventually the movement led to the Civil War, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

47. Women’s Rights Movement for women to vote – 1920!!!! Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Seneca Falls Convention, New York Declaration of Sentiments

48. Overall Effect • These women brought about a movement for women to be treated equally as men, passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

49. Statement • The term we had was ___________ and it means……and the effect of this was…….

50. Project – Pre-AP • Key people • Coverage pictures (3) • Video 1- pro-active (first person) • Video 2 – what was life like before the reform? • Tweet • Quote • Title • Set tone with colors/graphics