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.

PROMPT EVALUATION

PURITANISM

• Romanticism

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.

ROMANTICISM

Francisco de Goya, 1798

Individualism • Emphasis moved from: the stability of the community to

the fulfillment of the individual. • Individuals have unique,

endless potential.

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

Caspar Friedrich, 1818

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

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

John Henry Fuseli, 1781

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

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

John Constable, 1821

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

Caspar Friedrich, 1822

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

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

William Blake, 1795

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.