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The Writers and Movements of
American Literature Research Paper
For this assignment, you will be composing a research paper based on 1) a literary movement, 2) an author associated with that literary movement, and 3) a short work by that author. YOU will be allowed to select the literary movement and author from the extensive list that has been provided for you in this assignment packet.
Please note: this Research Paper is an assignment of exceptional breadth and importance within the 11th grade English curriculum. We will be moving through the writing process slowly (thus the two-month work period), and some of the paper will be worked on in class. However, students will have to complete what they do not finish in class at home on their own time. Also note that this assignment is worth an exceptionally high number of points, and if students do not complete it – or only complete a portion of it – their overall course grade may be impacted significantly! Remember, part of the purpose behind this assignment is to learn the PROCESS of writing a research paper, if a step is missing, then I will not grade the steps that follow it, no matter what. If a student does not have a step completed by the due date, he or she must complete it late (for half credit) if he or she plans to continue with the assignment.
This project has been broken up into seven (7) steps. Each step must be completed, in the following order:
1. Research Paper Information Packet signed and all needed materials obtained
2. Question Outline
3. Note Cards (40 minimum)
4. Information Outline
5. Rough Draft of Written Project
6. Editing and Proofreading
7. Final Draft of Written Project with Bibliography
As stated before, because part of the purpose of this assignment is to learn the PROCESS of writing a research paper, if a step is missing, then I will not grade the steps that follow it. By way of an example, if you completed steps 1, 2 and 3, skipped 4 and 5, but went on to complete steps 6 and 7, I will stop grading your project at step 3.
Your final written paper has no minimum or maximum length, but history has shown that successful research papers are, on average, between 10-12 pages in length (including the title page, table of contents, phases 1, 2 and 3, and bibliography). You must use a minimum of four (4) and a maximum of six (6) sources when researching your writer and literary movement; you will NOT be allowed to use the internet as a source for your written paper.
***A note about plagiarism: please know that when it comes to plagiarism, I do not screw around. If a work is not cited, cited incorrectly, or just plain copied/stolen from another source, whether from a published work, an online source, or another student, you will receive a zero (0) ON THE ENTIRE ASSIGNMENT. If you have any questions and/or concerns about whether you have plagiarized any of your work, please come and see me BEFORE the paper’s final due date.
Needed Materials:
1. One ½ inch (or 1 inch) 3-ring binder
2. 100 3’x5” lined index cards
3. Plenty of loose leaf paper (NO spiral bound notebooks!)
4. Zippered holder for index cards
5. Some way of turning your project in electronically (saved to CD, jump/stick drive)
If you have any financial issues regarding obtaining any of the above materials, please see me BEFORE the date you are required to have them.
Project Steps and Due Dates:
Assignment Point Value Due Date
1. This sheet, signed by a parent or guardian, and all needed materials 10 Friday, March 11
2. Question Outline 10 Wednesday, March 16
3. Note Cards, minimum of 40 30 Tuesday, March 22
4. Information Outline 20 Friday, March 25
5. Rough Draft 50 Monday, April 11
6. Self-Editing and Proofreading 30 Wednesday, April 20
7. Title Page 10 Friday, April 29
8. Table of Contents 10 Friday, April 29
9. Final Project – Phase 1 75 Friday, April 29
10. Final Project – Phase 2 50 Friday, April 29
11. Final Project – Phase 3 75 Friday, April 29
12. Bibliography 30 Friday, April 29
Parents
Please sign below to signify that you have read and understand this assignment. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at [email protected] or [email protected], or leave a message for me with the school’s receptionist. Thank you!
Parent Signature ______________________________________________ Date ____________
Student Signature _____________________________________________ Date ____________
What Does the Paper Comprise of?
Though, ultimately, there are six parts to the research paper, the first two are your Title Page and Table of Contents, while the last is your Bibliography. The real “meat and potatoes” of your research paper are the three parts in the middle, Phases 1-3.
Phase 1 – Literary Movement (approx. 2-4 pages)
Explain the literary movement you selected in the following ways:
a. Explain the origins and causes of the movement
b. Explain what happened historically during the time period of you movement
c. Explain the main characteristics of the movement
d. Explain major themes within the movement
Phase 2 – Author (approx. 1-3 pages)
Provide a brief biography on the author you selected, who was/is a part of the literary movement you researched for Phase 1.
a. Include information related ONLY to your author’s public/literary life/career
Phase 3 – Work (approx. 2-4 pages)
Read a short work by your author and analyze how this work is an example of literature representative of your Phase 1 literary movement.
a. This section of your paper MUST include at least three (3) quotes from the work as part of your analysis
b. A short work is defined these ways:
i. If prose – no less than three (3) pages in length
ii. If poetry – no less than 30 lines in length
List of Eras/Movements & Authors
Colonialism
• William Bradford
• Anne Bradstreet
• Jonathan Edwards
• Cotton Mather
• Mary Rowlandson
• Samuel Sewall
• Captain John Smith
• Edward Taylor
• Nathaniel Ward
• Phillis Wheatley
• Michael Wigglesworth
• John Winthrop
Nationalism
• Samuel Adams
• Joel Barlow
• Charles Brockden Brown
• J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
• Timothy Dwight
• Hannah Foster
• Benjamin Franklin
• Philip Freneau
• Alexander Hamilton
• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Jefferson
• Sarah Morton
• Judith Sargent Murray
• James Otis
• Thomas Paine
• John Trumbull
• Phillis Wheatley
Romanticism
• William Cullen Bryant
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Emily Dickinson
• Frederick Douglass
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Margaret Fuller
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Washington Irving
• James Russell Lowell
• Herman Melville
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Henry David Thoreau
• Walt Whitman
• John Greenleaf Whittier
Realism
• Adams, Henry
• Addams, Jane
• Bellamy, Edward
• Bierce, Ambrose
• Cable, George W.
• Cahan, Abraham
• Chesnutt, Charles
• Chopin, Kate
• Crane, Stephen
• Davis, Rebecca Harding
• Dreiser, Theodore
• DuBois, W. E. B.
• Dunbar, Paul L.
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
• Eastman, Charles A.
• Far, Sui Sin
• Frederic, Harold
• Freeman, Mary Wilkins
• Foote, Mary Hallock
• Garland, Hamlin
• Gilman, Charlotte P.
• Harris, Joel Chandler
• Harte, Bret
• Hopkins, Pauline
• Howells, William Dean
• James, Henry
• Jewett, Sarah Orne
• London, Jack
• Norris, Frank
• Page, Thomas Nelson
• Oskison, John
• Riis, Jacob
• Phelps, Elizabeth S.
• Sinclair, Upton
• Turner, Frederic J.
• Twain, Mark
• Veblen, Thorstein
• Washington, Booker T.
• Wharton, Edith
• Woolson, Constance
• Zitkala-sa
Modernism
• Sherwood Anderson
• Djuna Barnes
• Kay Boyle
• Truman Capote
• Willa Cather
Modernism (con’t)
• Kate Chopin
• e.e.cummings
• Countee Cullen
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
• T. S. Eliot
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Robert Frost
• Lillian Hellman
• Ernest Hemingway
• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neale Hurston
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Amy Lowell
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Marianne Moore
• Simon Ortiz
• Ezra Pound
• Anne Sexton
• Gertrude Stein
• Shelby Stephenson
• Wallace Stevens
• Edith Wharton
Post-Modernism
• Maya Angelou
• Isaac Asimov
• James Baldwin
• T.C. Boyle
• Ray Bradbury
• William S. Burroughs
• Octavia Butler
• Samuel R. Delany
• Don DeLillo
• Phillip K. Dick
• Bret Easton Ellis
• Ralph Ellison
• William Faulkner
• Neil Gaiman
• William Gibson
• Allen Ginsberg
• Joseph Heller
• Fredric Jameson
• Kevin Kelly
• Jack Kerouac
• Ken Kesey
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Raymond Kurzweil
• Harper Lee
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Norman Mailer
• Arthur Miller
• N. Scott Momaday
• Toni Morrison
• Tim O’Brien
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Sylvia Plath
• Thomas Pynchon
• Tom Robbins
• Anne Sexton
• Neal Stephenson
• Amy Tan
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Alvin Toffler
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Alice Walker
• Tennessee Williams
• Tom Wolfe
• Richard Wright

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Mr. D's Modernism Handout

Modernism

Modernism describes an array of cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The term covers a series of reforming movements in art, architecture, music, literature and the applied arts which emerged during this period.
It is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology or practical experimentation. Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was 'holding back' progress, and replacing it with new, progressive and therefore better, ways of reaching the same end.
Embracing change and the present, modernism encompasses the works of thinkers who rebelled against nineteenth century academic and historicist traditions, believing the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated; they directly confronted the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world. Some divide the 20th Century into movements designated Modernism and Postmodernism, whereas others see them as two aspects of the same movement.
Modernist literature is the literary form of Modernism and especially High modernism, it should not be confused with modern literature.
Modernist literature was at its height from 1910 to 1920, and featured such authors as Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Luigi Pirandello, D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, and Robert Frost.



Characteristics of Modernism
Formal characteristics
· Open Form
· Free verse
· Discontinuous narrative
· Juxtaposition
· Intertextuality
· Classical allusions
· Borrowings from other cultures and languages
· Unconventional use of metaphor
· Metanarrative
· Fragmentation
· Multiple narrative points of view (parallax)


Thematic characteristics
· Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties
· Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context
· Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future
· Disillusionment
· Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology
· Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes
· Stream of consciousness
· Free indirect discourse
· Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century


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No homework this time, just the Gatsby quizzes that should've been posted a few nights ago.
 
Good Luck!

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"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Analysis Questions
 
1) Explain what Hurston means when she says, "...it is thrilling to think - to know that tfor any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise, or twice as much blame." (pg. 952)
 
2) Explain why Hurston feels that she may be more fortunate than whites.
 
3) Descrive Hurston's attitude toward discrimination.
 
4) Explain the symbolism of the bags at the end of the story.

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Not homework, per se, but every Huck Finn quiz I gave, as prep for the test this Thursday.
 
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Huck Finn – Super Quiz on Chapters 1, 4 - 9 Circle the letter(s) of the correct answer. Each question is worth two (2) points each.
1. How did Huck and Tom begin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with $6,000 each? A) they stole it
B) they earn it
C) they found it
D) they made it
2. Who adopts Huck? A) Judge Thatcher
B) Tom Sawyer
C) Widow Douglas
D) Jim
5. When he shows up, what does Pap want Huck to get for him? A) booze
B) money
C) information
D) false papers
6. What is the one thing Pap is most upset about regarding Huck getting civilized? A) his learning to read
B) his going to school
C) his clothes
D) none of the above
9. In a drunken stupor, why does Pap try to kill Huck? A) Huck tries to run away
B) Huck fights back
C) Pap thinks Huck is the Angel of Death
D) Huck says he misses the widow
10. What kind of river vessel does Huck find the morning after Pap attacked him? A) raft
B) piece of a steamboat
C) speedboat
D) canoe
11. What kind of animal does Huck shoot outside Pap’s cabin? A) squirrel
B) boar
C) deer
D) Becky
12. What is the name of the island Huck has decided to hide out on? A) Ellis Island
B) Jefferson Island
C) Jackson Island
D) Fantasy Island
15. Why has Jim run away? A) Miss Watson was planning to sell him
B) His mother in New Orleans is sick
C) He was really upset over Huck’s “death”
D) Miss Watson was really mean, and Jim had had enough
17. Who/What find inside the unexpected object floating in the river? A) a treasure chest
B) a body
C) a gun
D) Becky
Huck Finn - Quiz on Chapters 12-13 & 15-16 Circle the letter of the correct answer. 1. What time of day do Jim and Huck travel on the river? A) daytime
B) dusk
C) nighttime
D) dawn
2. Which one of the following aspects is NOT included in Huck’s definition of living “pretty high?” A) buying
B) fishing
C) hunting
D) stealing
3. What are the robbers on the wrecked steamboat planning to do? A) kill one of their own
B) use the steamboat as their new gang hideout
C) catch Jim and make good on the reward offered for him
D) hijack the next stagecoach
4. What is the name of the steamboat they find the robbers on? A) Billy Joe Jim Bob
B) Becky Thatcher
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Walter Scott
5. What happens to the robbers at by the end of Chapter 13? A) they escape from the wrecked steamboat
B) they’re arrested by the local sheriff and put into jail
C) they’ve all drown by the time the ferryman investigates
D) no one knows, it’s a mystery
6. What causes Huck and Jim to get separated on the river? A) they had a fight and Huck bailed
B) it was a foggy night
C) slave hunters have caught Jim
D) Jim gets washed overboard by a big wave
7. What trick does Huck pull on Jim when they’re reunited? A) Huck convinces Jim their time apart was all a dream
B) Huck finds Jim asleep and puts his hand in a pot of warm water
C) Huck pretends to be his own ghost, haunting Jim forever
D) Huck doesn’t pull a joke on Jim, he has too much respect for him
8. What is Jim’s plan once he reaches freedom? A) sneak onto the farm that owns his family and steal them away
B) make his way westward to California
C) join Fredrick Douglass and his quest to free slaves
D) make enough money to buy his family’s freedom
9. What does Huck tell the slave hunters who want to search his and Jim’s raft? A) that he’s an orphan looking for his parents who are river gypsies
B) the raft they want to search isn’t really his, he was just robbing it
C) that his family’s onboard suffering from smallpox
D) that Jim is onboard, but that Jim is his slave
10. Before they leave, what do the slave hunters give Huck? A) a rifle and food stuffs
B) $40.00 in gold, and advice for getting help in the next town
C) medicine for his family and a map of the river
D) an outboard motor for their canoe
Huck Finn - Quiz on Chapters 19 - 21 Circle the letter of the correct answer.
1. In chapter 19, Huck and Jim encounter two men who beg for a ride on their raft. What “job”
did the younger man used to have? A) he was a professional gambler who fell on a bit of bad luck
B) he sold toothpaste that stripped not just the tarter, but the enamel, too, from your teeth
C) he used to run an anti-drinking revival until everyone found out he drank
D) he wrote dime-novel stories about the “relationships” he had with women up and
down the river
2. Who do the two men (the younger and older) claim to be? A) a German prince and high advisor to the queen of England
B) a professional swindler and a con-man
C) a Templar knight in search of King Solomon’s treasure and the bishop of New Orleans
D) an English duke and the lost son of King Louis XVI
3. When they arrive in the next town, everyone is at a religious revival meeting. The older man convinces the townsfolk that he is a reformed…? A) pirate
B) slaver
C) lady’s man
D) gambler 4. Which one of Shakespeare’s plays do the two men NOT practice lines from? A) Hamlet
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Richard III
D) Othello 5. Who shoots the rowdy drunk in front of Huck? A) Sherburn
B) Sherman
C) Showman
D) Bloefeld
Huck Finn - Quiz on Chapters 22 - 23 Circle the letter of the correct answer.
1. What does Sherburn call the lynch mob that has formed to kill him? A) chickens
B) a mindless mob
C) cowards
D) yellow-bellies
2. Who does Huck follow to the circus? A) a clown
B) a lion-tamer
C) a ringmaster
D) a tumbling acrobat
3. What does it say across the bottom of the Royal Nonesuch flyer? A) Men Only
B) Women and Children Not Admitted
C) Prepare to be Shocked & Amazed
D) Doors Open at 7, Trouble Starts at 8 4. How is the dauphin dressed when he appears on stage? A) he is dressed as a “lady of the night”
B) he is wearing nothing but paint and few odds and ends
C) he is dressed as an wealthy A-rab prince
D) he is wearing nothing but his underwear which they’ve set on fire 5. What word does Jim use to describe the duke and dauphin? A) knaves
B) scallywags
C) scoundrels
D) rapscallions
Huck Finn - Quiz on Chapters 22 - 23 Circle the letter of the correct answer.
1. How does Huck respond to the drunk rider’s show at the circus? A) he laughs along with everyone else watching the show
B) he doesn’t get why the rider’s show is so funny
C) he can’t watch the show because the rider puts himself in danger
D) he thinks the rider is faking his drunkenness and gives up on the circus
2. What part of Sherburn’s house does the mob knock down? A) the front fence
B) the porch roof
C) the tree in his backyard
D) the front door
3. What does Huck conclude about the way Jim feels about his family? A) that it doesn’t seem natural
B) that he couldn’t possible love them
C) that they all love each other the way packs of dogs “love” each other
D) that they love each other the way white folk do 4. How many nights do the duke and dauphin actually put on their performance? A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4 5. Which answer below DOESN’T Huck say nobles are historically known for committing? A) decapitate
B) cheat
C) steal
D) lie
Huck Finn - Quiz on Chapters 24 and 25
Circle the letter of the correct answer 1. Which one of Shakespeare’s character’s costume is Jim wearing in his “disguise?” A) King Lear
B) Hamlet
C) King Richard
D) Othello
2. Which of the two Wilks brothers is supposed to be deaf? A) George
B) James
C) Harvey
D) William
3. Where are the two Wilks brothers coming to the US from? A) Shetland, England
B) London, England
C) Sheffield, England
D) Shelton, England
4. How much money was supposed to be hidden in the cellar? A) $3000
B) $4000
C) $5000
D) $6000
5. Which one of Peter Wilks’ friends calls out the duke and dauphin as frauds and liars? A) Deacon Hovey
B) Doctor Robinson
C) Reverend Hobson
D) Abner Shackleford
Huck Finn - Quiz on Chapters 26 - 33 Circle the letter of the correct answer. 1. With whom does Huck say he went to church in England? A) Hamlet
B) King William
C) Jim
D) the queen of France 2. Which sister quizzes Huck? A) Mary Jane
B) Susan
C) Joanna
D) Elizabeth
3. Where does Huck hide the money? A) in Mary Jane's room B) in the coffin C) in the outhouse D) with Jim 4. To whom does Huck confess the truth? A) the king
B) the duke
C) the doctor
D) Mary Jane 5. What does Huck instruct the oldest sister to do? A) leave the house
B) marry the duke C) steal back the money
D) kill the king 6. Who arrives at the end of chapter 28? A) the widow Douglas
B) Jim's family C) the real brothers
D) Tom Sawyer 7. What does the king say happened to the money? A) he gave it to the girls
B) the slaves stole it C) Huck stole it
D) he spent it 8. What are 2 methods the people use to try and see who the real brothers are? A) writing & a tattoo
B) blood test & fingerprints C) fingerprints & writing
D) fingerprints & a tattoo 9. What does the town decide to do to settle the situation? A) hang them all
B) torture Huck
C) ask the doctor
D) dig up the body 10. Who confesses to putting the money in the coffin? A) Huck
B) Jim
C) the king
D) the duke 11. When Huck loses Jim,
A) he makes a plan to kill the king
B) he decides to put the whole thing behind them
C) he sits down and cries
D) he heads south to free Jim's family
12. How much do the king and the duke sell Jim for?
A) $40.00
B) $17.00
C) two female slaves
D) a ride into town 13. Why can't Huck pray for forgiveness for helping Jim? A) he's never been taught how to B) he knows that God will know he's lying C) he knows that God doesn't think that helping Jim was wrong D) he doesn't believe in God 14. Huck is very nervous at the Phelps', because he is afraid A) that Tom Sawyer will arrive B) that they will find out that he is not a lost orphan C) because the Phelps are related to the Sheperdsons D) they have seen “The Last Airbender” and will lynch him for being in such a bad movie
15. How does Tom fall "considerable, in [Huck's] estimation"? A) He sees Tom picking his nose
B) Tom confesses to having a girlfriend C) Tom agrees to help free Jim
D) Tom confesses to stealing
Huck Finn Quiz - Chapters 34-35 Circle the letter of the correct answer. 1. From where does Tom get his ideas? A) Huck
B) his father
C) books
D) movies 2. Why doesn't Tom explain his plan to Jim? A) he doesn't have a plan B) he thinks Jim won't understand
C) he makes Huck do it
D) he does explain it
3. Why does Tom think Jim needs a shirt? A) to write a journal on B) to make a rope ladder with C) because the one he has is dirty
D) he's cold
4. Why does Jim trust Huck and Tom?
A) because he has no one else to talk to
B) because he knows they love him
C) because he has lived with Huck for so long now D) because they're white
5. As a prisoner, what can Jim do that is different from most people being held captive? A) eat bread and butter B) unchain himself and walk around
C) have conjugal visits
D) send messages to his family
Huck Finn Quiz - Chapters 36-39 Circle the letter of the correct answer. 1. What do Huck and Tom sneak to Jim?
A) water
B) money
C) a pie
D) a rope ladder
E) tin plates
F) all of the above
G) only C, D & E
I) only A, D & C
2. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that Tom believes Jim that should
have for the escape?
A) snake
B) rats
C) a coat of arms
D) beetles E) mournful inscription
F) spiders
3. How does Tom sign the letters he sends? A) with an "X"
B) with a red pen C) "unknown friend"
D) he doesn't sign them 4. Where does Tom place the second letter? A) down a sleeping slave's shirt
B) under Aunt Sally's pillow C) close to his heart
D) on the front door 5. Aunt Sally busts Huck when he is A) making a telephone call
B) coming up from the cellar C) sneaking beetles to Jim
D) naked in the shower
Huck Finn Quiz - Chapters 40 - 42 Circle the letter of the correct answer. 1. What happens to Tom? A) he died at the beginning of the book
B) he got a sex-change operation and married Huck C) he got shot trying to free Jim
D) he decided to live with Huck 2. The men are nice to Jim because A) they don't want him to run away again
B) Miss Watson tells them to be C) he saved Huck's life on the river
D) he stayed with Tom to help 3. Towards the end of the novel A) the king and the duke come back and try to make up for all their schemes B) Tom says that Jim has really been free for nearly two months C) Jim is shot and killed while trying to escape D) It is discovered that Jim is really white 4. What has happened to Pap by the end of the novel A) he is in prison
B) he is sober and married to the Widow Douglas C) he is dead
D) he became a prostitute in Boston 5. The last thing that Huck does at the end of the novel is to A) move back in with the widow
B) take off with Tom C) put flowers on Jim's grave
D) move in with Aunt Sally

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Reading Schedule for
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
There is no excuse for not reading the following assigned sections. There will be a quiz on every day a piece of assigned reading must be completed by. If you are absent and miss a quiz, you must make it up within the week, after school.
 
Date by Which the Chapters
Must be Completed                                      Chapters to be Completed
 
Monday, January 31st                                                  34-35
Wednesday, February 2nd                                            36-39
Friday, February 4th                                                     40-43