Name: Date: Period:

American Literary Period | Notes and Comments

Instructions:

 As we review the PowerPoint presentation, fill in notes that will help you identify and classify
literature from each of the time periods.
 This will not only be relevant for the rest of the quarter, but it will also affect your midterm
and final summative grades for quarter 2.

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Period Dates: Period Name: Notes on the Period

40,000 – 20,000 BC Native American

1400’s – 1600’s Age of Exploration

1600 - 1800 Puritanism

1750 - 1800 Rationalism

“The Age of
Enlightenment”

1800 - 1860 Romanticism

Name: Date: Period:

1800 – 1860 Gothic Romanticism

1840 – 1860 Transcendentalism

1850 – 1900 Realism

1900 – 1950 Modernism

1920 – 1940 Harlem Renaissance

1950 – Present Postmodernism