Week 7 Work--Due Wed., October 11th

Week 7 Vocabulary
cantankerous
deride
debacle
temerity
ennui

Presentations for 10/11
10:00  Colm, Logan S., and Asher
12:15  Jacob, Niko, Audrey

Please bring your American Experience book to class.

This week we will enter the Early Romantic Period of American Literature and learn about:

Washington Irving: "Father of American Literature" 1783-1859

Portrait of Washington Irving, John Wesley Jarvis 18

*He reinterpreted European folk stories in an American setting.

*He is sometimes called "The Father of American Literature" for creating some of the first and most lasting American tales.

We will read one of his tales and become familiar with two more.

A.  "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Read and annotate p.256-268 in The American Experience

Note:  If you would like to look at an example of my annotating, here are the first few pages of my text. Sometimes it helps to see how others annotate.  You will develop your own style as you do more of it.  At first it might slow you down, but eventually it will become a natural part of your reading process.

Create text notes for this story.  If you cannot find your text notes handout, reprint it and put it in your notebook.  Here is the text notes handout.

Also, again here are some of the text notes examples from "Polyphemus" to give you an idea of what they might look like.

B.  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

1.Watch and take notes on:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, National Geographic (3:00)

2. Watch this MOJO video (7:00) that summarizes the top ten highlights of the story.

3. After reading or viewing, answer the following:


A. What is the setting (time and place) of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
B. Describe the following characters:
Icabod Crane  (Read this excerpt )
Brom Bones  (Read this exerpt )
Katrina  (Read this excerpt )
The Headless Horseman  (Read this excerpt)
The Townspeople
C. What are some of the themes of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

4. Look at this famous painting from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
 How does the artist use light/dark in the painting to emphasize certain things?

C. "Rip Van Winkle"

1. Watch the
3 Minute Summary of "Rip Van Winkle"
Summarize the plot.

2. Look at these paintings and read any descriptions:

The Return of Rip Van Winkle

John Quidor, 1849
National Gallery

Scene on the Hudson
James Hamilton
Smithsonian, 1845 oil




Also don't forget to begin work on your timeline review project.  One segment is due this week and two more the following.

Note: You can title that first segment "Native Americans & Early Explorers" to include the early explorers we studied in there too.

Thought of the week regarding procrastination: