Native American Myths and Worldviews
This is the Native American Creation Myth.
What is The World on Turtle's Back
The belief that God has already decided the ultimate destiny of individuals.
What is predestination?
This was a main driving force for the American Revolution, boiling over at the Boston Tea Party.
The Transcendental Era is a response to...
What is The Industrial Revolution?
In this poem, a bird symbolized unending grief.
What is The Raven?
This is a religious speech meant to teach or persuade.
What is a Sermon?
These stories are passed down through generations by word of mouth.
What are Oral Traditions?
This poem shifts in tone halfway through, with a focus on modesty and a release of all material possessions.
What is Upon the Burning of Our House?
This author used wit and logic to teach lessons.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is the Transcendental idea that one can do and think for themselves without help.
What is self-reliance?
This story has a "Kingdom by the sea" which symbolizes a perfect "dreamlike" world.
What is Annabelle Lee?
This is when right and wrong are unclear.
What is Moral Ambiguity?
The Right-Handed Twin represents
What is Order?
This sermon uses vivid imagery to instill fear amongst listens to repent.
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
This Orator is famous for the speech in which he states "Give me Liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
This is the Father of Transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
In this story, a man is obsessed with perfection.
What is The Birthmark?
These are literary movements focused on emotion, imagination, and nature.
What are romantics?
The Left-Handed Twin represents
What is Chaos?
This story tells the eyewitness accounts of hardships during early settlement.
What is Of Plymouth Plantation?
This was signed at the Second Continental Congress of 1776, in which Revolutionaries listed their grievances and emphasized the natural rights of humans.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
This author lived simply at Walden Pond.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This story tells of a Wall Street lawyer whose life is upended by a new clerk, Bartleby, who gradually refuses all work with the iconic phrase "I would prefer not to"
What is Bartleby the Scrivener?
This is the belief that God actively guides and protects people.
What is Divine Providence?
The Native American (and Transcendental) belief that all things are interconnected.
What is the Oversoul?
This story tells how Puritans should be a moral compass to the rest of the world.
What is City Upon a Hill?
This ends Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This Transcendental author and thinker was a leader in educational reform and experimental schools.
Who is Bronson Alcott?
This poet writes about threshold moments, or moments between life and death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This is how a culture understands life, nature, and humanity.
What is a Worldview?