Welcome back Sophomores,
I hope you had a great weekend. We have a great deal to read and learn about this week, so remember to bring your books every day.
If you have me on Monday, you'll take the test the B class took last Friday on The Age of Reason authors and texts. Hope you studied well. The rest of the week will be spent as follows:
We will begin a new unit on the Romantic period. This is a really exciting movement in literature that is a direct rejection of the previous one. This is not to say that reason was rejected altogether, but rather that a realization that rationalization did not solve many of the ills people were facing came into play, and people began to look instead back to intuition, nature and imagination for both answers and escape. This is a great period that includes the first American fiction, both novels (such as the Leatherstocking Tales) and short stories. This period also includes some amazing poetry that we will read and analyze together.
This movement in literature brings us some of America's most memorable writing by authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe. We will be reading some of each of these authors, including Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," which is considered the first American short story. Since this particular story is not in your text book, I am including a link to it here. I expect you to read it for homework and come to class prepared to discuss it.
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
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