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Romanticism Webquest:
| American Romanticism can be broadly defined as that perspective which looks at objects and sees them as emblems of a greater reality. In other words, freedom of perception for the individual can be completely liberated. |
TASK: To create a self-running, visual presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, or other multimedia programs of images of American Romanticism, incorporating music, poetry and prose, archival photography, painting and film. Discover American Romanticism through remarkable people, folklore, art and music. Consider the following elements in these individuals lives: their relationship to nature, their genius, their passions and struggles, and how they influenced American culture.
Process: Part I
Step 1: With two partners, select a famous American, event, or cultural
artifact (songs genre, painting, etc..) from the Romantic period to research.
Use the internet connections, classroom resources, and information from
the library to find information about each of your subjects.
Step 2: Complete the information sheet on each of your famous American Romantics.
Step 3: Decide how you would like to introduce your famous American Romantics to the class. Design a self-running PowerPoint presentation, of between 3-5 minutes, that will reflect your learning and help the class learn about the contributions of the person you selected or the cultural importance of the artifacts you've chosen..
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What you will present. - a story, information, experience, ... How you will present it. – music, artwork, legends, facts, poetry or prose. What is the content? - presentation details in a written narrative (1-2 pages) |
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Daniel Boone |
William Sydney Mount Amy Marcy Beach Henry Thacker Burleigh Charles Wakefield Cadman Stephen Collins Foster Sidney Homer Edward MacDowell Charles Ives Sojourner Truth |
John Singleton Copley |
Historical Artifacts |
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| The Fur Trade | Explorers--French, English, American |
| Mountain Men | The Frontier Settlements |
| The Rendezvous in the Rockies | Colonial Forts |
| Songs--Patriotic, Spiritual, Classical | The French and Indian War |
| Paintings--The Hudson River School | Travel and Transportation 1800-1830 |
| Paintings--Patriotic | Native American Culture |
| Folklore | Food and Entertainment |
Process: Part II: Creating a Multimedia Presentation
After reviewing some sites in preparation of our discussion of Romanticism and your selected persons, you will get into groups of six. You will now have to focus your research into one or two historical figures, although the other figures might contribute to the presentation through quotes or music or paintings. Find significant connections between the historical figures and prepare a presentation that will include Music, Art and Literature. Divide the responsibilities for research, editing, and presentation. Make sure the presentation is self-running and includes quality research, historical accuracy, and excellent use of multimedia and hypertextual tools. Keep notes on a separate Microsoft Word document.
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The Romantic artist had a role of an ultimate egoistic creator, with the spirit above strict formal rules and traditional procedures. The Artist had imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth. For example...Arthur Durand's Kindred Spirits (1849), shows the painter, Thomas Cole, experiencing a transcendental moment in the company of the poet, William Cullen Bryant in the Catskill Mountains. Hudson River School (1835 - 1870) The artist Thomas Cole is synonymous with this region and first
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Read carefully all the myths of early America. Emerson and the other romantic writers of New England helped established the founders of America as legendary, heroic figures. However, pay close attention to the Native American myths and be able to summarize the myths in class discussions. Can you write your own myths today? Two Recurring Themes- 1. Much American writing early and late, in verse or essay, is preoccupied with the meaning of America. How did writers such as Bradstreet, Byrd, and Crevecoeur view America - both what they saw and what they hoped to see, for the clash between the reality and the promise of America is itself a unifying theme of American literature. 2. Self-transformation: A powerfully appealing feature of the promise of American life has always been the hope of purifying human nature, of returning it to a sort of presocial innocence, like the hope in the form of the Puritan's quest for grace, the immigrant's wish to leave behind the corruptions of Europe, the pioneer's impulse to "light out for the territories," the transcendentalist's vision of "an original relation to the universe."
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American Culture |
Literature |
Washington Irving: Selections
James Fenimore
Cooper Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sellections
Walt Whitman: Revising Himself This Library of Congress exhibition traces this evolution of Leaves of Grass and Walt Whitman's life, tapping a range of editions and drafts of the famous work. A wealth of interesting biographical material on Whitman, his friends and associates, his work as a teacher, tending the wounded during the Civil War, and for the federal government, also appears in the exhibit Walt Whitman Archive The Walt Whitman Archive includes a host of versions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, numerous poetry manuscripts witn a related guide, a detailed biography of Whitman, and a bibliography of articles, books, chapters of books and poems about Whitman published from 1975 to the present. |
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