Meeting State

Standards
-Cite strong and thorough
textual evidence to
support analysis of what
the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn
from the text.
-Determine a theme or
central idea of a text and
analyze in detail its
development over the
course of the text,
including how it emerges
and is shaped and refined
by specific details; provide
an objective summary of
the text.
-Analyze how complex
characters develop over
the course of a text,
interact with other
characters and advance
the plot or develop the
theme.

Contact Information

Jennifer Dennis
1538 Emmett Rd.
Middleton, ID 83644
(208) 707-3799
Email:
jenniferdennis@u.boisestate.edu

Middleton School
District
Honors Literature
American Romanticism

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of

you, pales in comparison to what lies inside
you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Determine the meaning

of words and phrases as
they are used in the text,
including figurative and
connotative meanings.
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Nathanial Hawthorne

It will be found, in fact, that

the ingenious are always
fanciful, and the truly
imaginative never otherwise
than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe

American Romantic Literature:

The romantic movement originated in
the late 18th century, emphasizing
inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy
of the individual. It was a departure from
the Enlightenment movement that
depended on logic and reason.
Romanticism brought back imagination,
intuition, and fancy into literary work.
This genre appeals to emotion-how we
think and feel. It did not reject real but
showed it by imbuing it with imagination
to help explain and understand common
human conditions and problems.

August 17-23

August 24September 6

Edgar Allen Poe

September 7October 4

Nathaniel
Hawthorn

October 5November 1

Ralph Waldo
Emerson and
Henry David
Thoreau

November 2November 18

Herman
Melville

November 28December 16

Walt Whitman,
Emily
Dickinson, and
Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow

Key Writers
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickenson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorn

A sub-genre of Romanticism is Gothic

Romance. This embraces dark themes
and flawed characters. It has a nontraditional take on morality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman
Washington Irving

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Washington
Irving and
James
Fenimore
Cooper