Native American Literature
What is one thing that Native Americans valued in their culture?
Music, dance, storytelling, or nature
What was the most important thing in the world to Puritans, according to their writing?
A. Nature
B. Storytelling
C. Freedom
D. Religion
D. Religion
True or false: The transcendentalists were a branch of the romanticists.
True!
Which did the dark romanticists prioritize in their writing?
A. The individual experiences and emotions of a perception
B. The experiences of society as a whole
A. The individual experiences and emotions of a perception
Have a staring contest with your partner. Tell me who one to receive the points.
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How did the stories of the Native American culture live on?
How would you describe Puritan writing?
Plain, simple, logical, religion-centered
Did the transcendentalists prioritize thinking or feeling?
Feeling
What type of feelings typically pop up in dark romanticist literature?
Sadness, darkness, deep love, passion, etc.
Find one think that is yellow in this room and bring it back to your desk in ten seconds to receive points. Go!
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Which of the following is one of the story types in Native American legends?
A. Cautionary tales
B. Animal legends
C. Creation myths
C. Creation myths
There are also trickster stories and origin myths too!
Which of the following was not a technique of persuasion that the Rationalists used in their writing?
A. Logos
B. Pathos
C. Sound devices
C. Sound devices
True or false: This era was still very religious and traditional.
False! This was when literature started to stray away from from tradition.
Think back to "The Birthmark". What do you think the birthmark on Georgianna's cheek represented?
An imperfection in the eyes of her husband
Write down as many words that rhyme with the word "goose" as you can in twenty seconds.
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Name one archetype that showed up in Native American literature.
Tricksters, chiefs, mother nature, other animals with specific characteristics
Where did the thinking of the rationalists come from? Did they think more intellectually, or more emotionally?
Intellectually
Think back to "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
What is the mood in this poem?
The mood shifts from darkness to a lighter feel when the day breaks again from night.
Think back to "The Birthmark." How did the darkness of the romanticism era show up in this story? Give one example.
- Madness from needing to be perfect
- Georgianna's death
- The idea of insanity
- Conflict within marriages and imperfect love
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Why was oral language tradition so important to Native American culture?
Telling stories orally kept the Native American culture alive when everything else was taken from them.
Which of the following was not one of the writers we studied when looking at rationalist/puritan literature?
A. Patrick Henry
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think back to "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
What symbolism do you see in this poem?
- The tide symbolizes the continuation of time and cycle of life
- The traveller symbolizes the individual experience
- The shift in night to day of this poem symbolizes darkness coming to an end someday
Think back to "The Raven". What do you think the raven symbolized in the poem? Explain.
- The death of Poe's wife
- The narrator's guild
- The narrator's insanity
- Anything else as long as you have evidence
Spin around ten times, and then give someone in another group a high five to get points.
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