Modernism Overview Padlet by David Sainz (Student WHS) https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w Made with ♥ en-us 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC 2022-02-15 15:33:27 UTC hello@padlet.com What is the Time Period of American Modernism? dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847795 American Modernism started at the beginning of the 20th century. They started in 1914 and ended in 1939.]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847795 What was important to the American people during this time period? dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847796 American people during this time really believed that they should forget the past historical events and wanted to rewrite them. They also believed that function should always dictate form.]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847796 Identify and explain the characteristics of Modernism? dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847798 The characteristics of modernism were break with traditional writing, and changing it to make it new]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847798 F. Scott Fitzgerald dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847802 Fitzgerald's style was similar to the jazz age of writing. His writing brought to life flappers, tycoons, and other characters emblematic of the 1920's. ]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847802 Ernest Hemingway dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847804 Ernest Hemingway was considered the most influential of all the post World War 1 writers. He was famous for his Literary Style which affected the style of American prose fictions for several generations. He reduced the attraction of literary language to the bare bones of the truth it must express.]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847804 John Steinbeck dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847805 One of his novel's is considered one of the most significant during the Great depression. The book was called "The Grapes of Wrath". It is about how a sad odyssey of the Joad Family went from a bulldozed tenant farm in Oklahoma to the indignities of California Labor camps. ]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847805 Explain how these events helped to shape American Modernism. WWI The Roaring 1920s The Great Depression dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847807 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847807 WW1 dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847808 WW1 was able to see the prevailing assumptions about society reassessed.  People were scared, sad , worried . The way they thought made people question themselves. 
Writers created more cynical works that reflected a prevailing sense of disillusionment ]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847808 The Roaring 1920s dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847809 Many modernist writers share a mistrust of institutions of power such as government and religion. They rejected the notion of absolute truths. ]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847809 The Great Depression dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847812 Stocks were worthless, banks and businesses were closed and formerly secure citizens lost their jobs. 12 million people were unemployed, homeless families lived in tents and shacks in camps called Hoovervilles. ]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847812 Provide a brief explanation of the literary device, how it was characteristic of Modernism, and provide an example. dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847816 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847816 Stream-of-Consciousness dsainz1001_2 https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847817  One example from James Joyce is by using stream-of-consciousness he brings the reader into close proximity with the characters actual thoughts as they're occurring. He creates an intimate perhaps even uncomfortably intimate knowledge of that characters struggle another famous practitioner of stream-of-consciousness narration was]]> 2022-02-15 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsainz1001_2/6spj8f2n2n9fem9w/wish/2048847817