American Literature Timeline by Claire zhang https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7 en-us 2021-10-12 11:27:46 UTC 2025-12-06 11:26:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 2200BC Tower of Babel zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392604 Genesis 1:1-9]]> 2021-10-12 11:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392604 2200BC - 1600AD - Native Americans zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392605
  • The original Mississippians were most likely the Choctaw, who date back to the early 1500s. The Choctaw were the most populous by far and remain so to this day.
  • The annual Choctaw Indian Fair, held every summer in July is host to the World Champion Stickball Games and includes a celebration of tribal music, crafts and traditions.

    • ]]>     2021-10-12 11:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392605     Native American Literature zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392606 Period Characteristics
    -oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs
    -use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world
    -deep respect for nature and animals
    -cyclical world view
    -figurative language/parallelism
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    facts]]>     2021-10-12 11:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392607     1607AD Early Settlement - Jamestown zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392608 2021-10-12 11:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392608 Present Day zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392610 2021-10-12 11:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1810392610 Choctaw Indian Fair zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1813521911 2021-10-13 10:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1813521911 1692AD Salem Witch Trials zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835815400 2021-10-22 08:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835815400 1651 AD Of Plymouth Plantation zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835819571 William Bradtord]]> 2021-10-22 08:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835819571 1741 AD Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"Patrick Henry zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835820412 2021-10-22 08:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835820412 1600-1800First“American"colonies established zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835828368 Period characteristics:
    1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories
    which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.
    2. Sought to "purify" the Church of
    England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament
    3. Saw religion as a personal,inner
    experience
    4.Believed in original sin and "elect"
    who would be saved
    5.Used a plain style of writing1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories
    which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.
    2. Sought to "purify" the Church of
    England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament
    3. Saw religion as a personal,inner
    experience
    4.Believed in original sin and "elect"
    who would be saved
    5.Used a plain style of writing]]>     2021-10-22 08:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835828368     Patrick Henry zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835842648 Patrick Henry was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first governor of Virginia. He was a gifted orator and major figure in the American Revolution. His rousing speeches—which included a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature in which he famously declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”—fired up America’s fight for independence. An outspoken Anti-Federalist, Henry opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, which he felt put too much power in the hands of a national government. His influence helped create the Bill of Rights, which guaranteed personal freedoms and set limits on the government’s power.]]> 2021-10-22 09:06:17 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835842648 around 1685 Edward Taylor“Huswifery" zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835847257 https://poemanalysis.com/edward-taylor/huswifery/
    In the first stanza of ‘Huswifery’ the speaker addresses God. The entire poem is aimed at the poet’s “Lord,” a technique known as an apostrophe. He asks God to make him his “Spining Wheele compleate”. Or, a fully functioning spinning wheel. He wants to be in God’s control and ready when God wants to utilize him for a divine purpose. The next lines take on a similar form as he asks to be made into the bits and pieces of machinery that are used to make fabric. He wants his “Affections,” or thoughts and feelings, to become the “Swift Flyers” or the spinning wheel’s flyers. His soul will be the “holy Spoole”. 

    ]]>     2021-10-22 09:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835847257     1612–1672 Anne Bradstreet zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835850721 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-bradstreet]]> 2021-10-22 09:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1835850721 1750-1800 - Revolutionary War zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838140413 Period Name - Rationalism, "The Age of Reason", "The Enlightenment"

    The Constitution 
    The Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence were created.

    1.Mostly comprised of philosophers,scientists,writing speeches and pamphlets。
    2.Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past,on religious faith, or intuition]]>     2021-10-23 15:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838140413     1775-1783: Revolutionary War zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838144956 2021-10-23 15:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838144956 Benjamin Franklin zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838147558 Autobiography]]> 2021-10-23 15:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838147558 Patrick Henry zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838149268 Speech in the Virginia Convention]]> 2021-10-23 15:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838149268 Tomas Paine zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838151520 "The Crisis"
    Paine relentlessly insisted that British rule was responsible for nearly every problem in colonial society and that the 1770s crisis could only be resolved by colonial independence. That goal, he maintained, could only be achieved through unified action.

    ]]>     2021-10-23 15:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838151520     Phyllis Wheatley zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838153396 Although she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America. Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionized in New England and England, with presses in both places publishing her poems, and paraded before the new republic’s political leadership and the old empire’s aristocracy, Wheatley was the abolitionists’ illustrative testimony that blacks could be both artistic and intellectual. Her name was a household word among literate colonists and her achievements a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement.

    ]]>     2021-10-23 15:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1838153396     1840-1860 Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance" zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848049074 Important Social and Political Movements:
    Abolitionist Movement
    Utopian Movement
    Women's Suffrage Movement

    Period Characteristics:
    1. Everything in the world, including human beings, ịs a reflection of the Divine Soul.
    2. People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.
    3. Self-reliance and individualism
    must outweigh external authority and blink conformity to tradition.]]>     2021-10-27 12:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848049074     Ralf Waldo Emerson zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848053398 Nature, “Self- Reliance"]]> 2021-10-27 12:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848053398 Henry David Thoreau zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848058865 Walden, Life in the Woods 

    What is one of Thoreau's main ideas in Walden or Life in the Woods?
    One of the most important themes of Walden is the necessity of self-reliance. Thoreau believes that this is the ultimate virtue, something that speaks to our essence as human beings.]]>     2021-10-27 12:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848058865     Louisa May Alcott zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848065637 Little Women

    The central theme in Little Women is the need for self-sacrifice, which ultimately brings happiness by doing for others, and that one must balance duty to family with personal desires in order to truly grow up. True sacrifice is rooted in love, compassion, charity and selflessness.]]>     2021-10-27 12:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1848065637     Black Friday Amazon protests zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1877422667
    In anticipation of Black Friday, the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event that was largely moved online this year, a coalition of Amazon warehouse workers and climate activists organized a day of action called #MakeAmazonPay.

    At the crux of the protest actions were Amazon's working conditions and climate impact, both of which, depending on who you ask, range from notably subpar to dismal.

    Protest actions were organized in Brazil, Germany, India, Mexico, the U.S., France, and other countries. Actual actions varied: In Germany, thousands of warehouse workers went on strike, while some locales staged protests outside of Amazon's headquarters.
    ]]>     2021-11-09 06:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1877422667     Election results protests zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1877426321
    Spontaneous celebrations for the Biden and Harris win weren't the only gatherings spurred by the election results. Throughout the election and afterward, Trump routinely claimed that the election was seeped with fraud, despite election officials finding no evidence to back his claims.

    Emboldened by the soon-to-be former president's inflammatory remarks and baseless fraud accusations, hundreds of right-wing activists, including members of the hate group Proud Boys, took to Washington, D.C., a week after the election was called for Biden. The protests eventually escalated to violence as counterprotesters got involved, with 20 people arrested, according to the mayor's office in D.C.
    ]]>     2021-11-09 06:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1877426321     1800-1860 Romanticism Industrialization zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1889051978 Period Characteristics
    1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.
    2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.
    3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.
    4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual
    5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination
    6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)
    Famous Authors and Works
    Washington Irving
    —"Rip van Winkle"

    Emily Dickinson
    —poetry

    Walt Whitman
    —Leaves of Grass

    Edgar Allan Poe
    —"The Raven"

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    —The Scarlet Letter]]>     2021-11-14 11:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1889051978     The War of 1812 1812-1815 zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1889053350 In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. ]]> 2021-11-14 11:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1889053350 California Gold Rush 1848–1855 zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1889054974 https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849

    The California Gold Rush was sparked by the discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 and was arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000 (compared with the pre-1848 figure of less than 1,000). A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852.   .]]>     2021-11-14 11:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1889054974     The Scarlet Letter 1850 zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1893248737 https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/scarlet/
    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 historical novel  explores guilt, revenge, and redemption in colonial America. Hawthorne blends supernatural elements with psychological insight in his story of one woman’s public punishment for adultery. Explore a character analysis of Hester Prynne, plot summary, and important quotes.]]>     2021-11-16 05:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1893248737     Nathaniel Hawthorne zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1893255090 Hawthorne's works belong to romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism,cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England,combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. His depictions of the past are a version of historical fiction used only as a vehicle to express common themes of ancestral sin, guilt and retribution.His later writings also reflect his negative view of the Transcendentalism movement]]> 2021-11-16 05:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1893255090 E.E. Cummings zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1908643429 1. Other critics focused on the subjects of Cummings' poetry. Though his poetic language was uniquely his own, Cummings' poems were unusual because they unabashedly focused on such traditional and somewhat passé poetic themes as love, childhood, and flowers.
    2. In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. Later in his career, he was often criticized for settling into his signature style and not pressing his work toward further evolution. Nevertheless, he attained great popularity, especially among young readers, for the simplicity of his language, his playful mode and his attention to subjects such as war and sex.
    3. The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once noted that Cummings is “one of the most individual poets who ever lived—and, though it sometimes seems so, it is not just his vices and exaggerations, the defects of his qualities, that make a writer popular. But, primarily, Mr. Cummings’s poems are loved because they are full of sentimentally, of sex, of more or less improper jokes, of elementary lyric insistence.”]]>     2021-11-23 15:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1908643429     Stephen Crane zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1916151978 1. As a child, Crane was often sickly and afflicted by constant colds. When the boy was almost two, his father wrote in his diary that his youngest son became "so sick that we are anxious about him." Despite his fragile nature, Crane was an intelligent child who taught himself to read before the age of four.
    2.  For Stephen Crane, organized religion was not the important aspect of a person's life. The vitally important was a person's humility, honesty, and good works. If he did believe in a god, it would be one who appreciates and rewards these positive traits and one who speaks softly and kindly.
    3.  In Crane's time (1871-1900) the use of alcohol and drugs had not achieved the status of medical conditions. Crane was not an alcoholic; he was just a heavy drinker. There is evidence, although it is indirect, that he also used recreational drugs at various times in his short life. ]]>     2021-11-28 11:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1916151978     Ezra Pound zclaire976 https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1962843620 1. Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century; his contributions to modernist poetry were enormous. 
    2. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and modernist poets; developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe; and contributed to important literary movements such as Imagism and Vorticism. 
    3. His life’s work, The Cantos, remains a signal modernist epic. Its mix of history, politics, and what Pound called “the periplum,” that is a point of view of one in the middle of a journey, have given countless poets permission to develop a range of poetic techniques that capture life in the midst of experience. ]]>     2021-12-24 05:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zclaire976/45nptvqrggqa24f7/wish/1962843620