Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Week 4, Day 2
Objective: Students create a Literary Period Timeline in order to demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period.  

1. Bell Work: What is the importance of understanding the historical context of what we read?
2. Discuss bell work
3. American Literature Word Sort (as a group)--wait for directions
4. American Literature Time Period Research
1. Research Time Periods
2. Make a copy of American Literature Timeline
3. It may be smart for one person in each group to make a copy and then share with your group.  
4. Record your research there, but only in the LEFT column.  We will use the right column later.  
5. We will come together tomorrow and present what you find
6. Information that you may want to consider: dates of the time period, characteristics of the literature from that time period, noteworthy authors of the time period, major works of the time period, important historical events of the time period, etc.