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American Literature LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. American literature is usually studied in periods, each responding to the one before. Early colonial writing was largely religious and practical; the Romantics and Transcendentalists, including Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, turned to nature, individual conscience, and the possibility of a distinctly American voice. Realism after the Civil War, in Twain and later Wharton, described ordinary life and speech instead of ideals. Modernists in the 1920s broke narrative form, and the Harlem Renaissance brought Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and others to national attention. The canon has been contested and revised repeatedly, since for a long time it omitted most Black, indigenous, and women writers who were writing all along, and much of the interesting work in the field is recovering them. Questions: 1 What did the Transcendentalists turn to? 2 What did Realism describe instead of ideals? 3 Why has the canon been revised? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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American Literature LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. American literature is usually studied in periods, each responding to the one before. Early colonial writing was largely religious and practical; the Romantics and Transcendentalists, including Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, turned to nature, individual conscience, and the possibility of a distinctly American voice. Realism after the Civil War, in Twain and later Wharton, described ordinary life and speech instead of ideals. Modernists in the 1920s broke narrative form, and the Harlem Renaissance brought Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and others to national attention. The canon has been contested and revised repeatedly, since for a long time it omitted most Black, indigenous, and women writers who were writing all along, and much of the interesting work in the field is recovering them. Questions: 1 What did the Transcendentalists turn to? 2 What did Realism describe instead of ideals? 3 Why has the canon been revised? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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