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UNIT 4 DAY 8
Agenda
1. Prompt Evaluation2. Commentary Notes3. Body 1 Analysis4. Writer’s Workshop
Homework-Body 2&3 due Thursday
UpcomingPeer Edit Conference Thursday
Objectives
-To compose multi-page expository essay.-To independently adapt writing to audience and purpose.-Support a thesis with relevant information and provide commentary to explain and connect evidence to the thesis.
PROMPT EVALUATION
• Write a brief essay explaining why these two very different writers were each good examples of the Romantic Movement.
• Simplified Prompt
PROMPT EVALUATION
• Write a brief essay explaining why these two very different writers were each good examples of the Puritanism.
COMMENTARY
Do Not
SummarizeAnalyze
Do
• Evaluate: to determine the significance
• Answer the question you have provided yourself in the outline.
Example• How does Irving exemplify
Romanticism through his use of nature?
• How does your evidence reflect nature?
BODY 1 EXAMPLE
Prompt• Write a brief essay explaining why these two very
different writers were each good examples of the Romantic Movement.
Individualism • Emphasis moved from: the stability of the community to
the fulfillment of the individual. • Individuals have unique,
endless potential.
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
Emotionalism• Feeling, not reason, became the
test of authenticity. • Painful and pleasurable emotions are equally valid to Romantic poets. • Imagination was considered
necessary for creating all
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
Nature• Romantics loved, and were
spiritually involved, with nature • Romantic writing looked for
comforting or exotic settings from the past
• This was found in the supernatural, in nature, and/or in folk legends
• Romantics glorified the awesome, horrifying, overwhelming power of
nature
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
The Supernatural/Mysticism• In keeping with gothic themes, Romanticism
was obsessed with the supernatural • Ghosts, fairies, witches, demons.
• The shadows of the mind—dreams & madness. • The romantics rejected materialism in pursuit
of spiritual self-awareness. • They yearned for the unknown and the
unknowable.
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
UNIT 4 DAY 8
Objectives
1. Prompt Evaluation2. Commentary Notes3. Body 1 Analysis4. Writer’s Workshop
Homework-Body 2&3 due Thursday
UpcomingPeer Edit Conference Thursday
Agenda
-To compose multi-page expository essay.-To independently adapt writing to audience and purpose.-Support a thesis with relevant information and provide commentary to explain and connect evidence to the thesis.