Years: Pre-1607

3 Major Historical Events 

with years (list at least 3): Congress Breaking Treaty with Native Americans (recorded 1871), Vision of the Prophet in Ghost Dance Song, Mention of Sitting Bull Protest 1891, Wounded Knee Battle (1890); Christopher Columbus genocides (1492)

Major Authors / Works (list

at least 3: Sioux and Arapaho

Time Period: Pre-Colonialism 

Dates: published 1840s and set pre-1607

Point of View: first person 

Themes: Starvation, death, redemption, race, and spiritual

Connection: A theme I chose was death because the song was about death and killing. “Give me my knife, I shall hang up the meat to dry—Ye’ye’!” (Sioux 7). A historical event I chose was when “Ghost Dance Songs” came out. I chose this because this was a time when natives culture and language, made recordings of songs of the Ghost Dance in several languages. “The holy (hoop) shall run, Come and see it,The swift hoop shall run, Says the father” (Sioux 26).

Years: 1607-1775

Major Historical Events 
with years (list at least 3): American Revolution (1775), Boston Tea Party (1773), and Stamp Act (1765)

Major Authors / Works (list

at least 3: William Bradford, John Winthrop, and Anne Bradstreet 

Time Period: Colonialism 

Dates: July 8, 1741

Point of View: Second person 

Themes: Danger of damnation, Justice of God’s wrath, Opportunity for redemption, Immediate danger of damnation and hell

Connection: A theme I chose was hell. I chose this because it talked a lot about hell and how god wouldn’t hesitate to send you there “Natural men are held in God’s hand over the pit of hell” (Edwards 1). A historical event I chose was the Boston Tea Party. I chose this because this was when a group of Massachusetts colonists dumped tea into the harbor. “So that it is not because God is unmindful of their wickedness” (Edward 4). I chose this even because what they did was wicked.

Years: 1776-1820s

Major Historical Events

with years (list at least 3): American revolution (Mar 22, 1765 – Dec 15, 1791), Bill of Rights (December 15, 1791), and Magna Carta (15 June 1215)

Major Authors / Works (list

at least 3: Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jefferson, Fellas Wheatly 

Time Period: Enlightenment 

Dates: Published in 1791

Point of View: First person

Themes: Justice, Moderation, Industriousness, Vanity, and Humility

Connection: A theme I chose was justice. I chose this because Justice was a big deal to Benjamin. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are treated equal” (Jefferson 1). A historical event I chose was the Bill of Rights. I chose this because the Bill of Rights was built on justice and rights. “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws” (Jefferson 2). I chose these 2 because they both have a lot to do with justice and rights in that time and error.

Years: 1776-1820s

Major Historical Events

with years (list at least 3): American revolution (Mar 22, 1765 – Dec 15, 1791), Bill of Rights (December 15, 1791), and Magna Carta (15 June 1215)

Major Authors / Works (list

at least 3: Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jefferson, Fellas Wheatly

Time Period: Enlightenment 

Dates: Published in 1791

Point of View: First person

Themes: Justice, Moderation, Industriousness, Vanity, and Humility

Connection: A theme I chose was justice. I chose this because Justice was a big deal to Benjamin. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are treated equal” (Jefferson 1). A historical event I chose was the Bill of Rights. I chose this because the Bill of Rights was built on justice and rights. “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws” (Jefferson 2). I chose these 2 because they both have a lot to do with justice and rights in that time and error.

Years: 1820s-1860

Major Historical Events

with years (list at least 3): The Missouri Compromise (1820), Organ trail opens (1843), and Erie Canal opened (1825)

Major Authors / Works (list

at least 3: Edger Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and John Greenleaf Whittier

Time Period: Dark Gothic Romanticism 

Dates: published in 1843 and set in 1830s 

Point of View: First Person

Themes: Madness, horror, guilty, death, and sanity 

Connection: A theme I chose was madness. I chose this because the speaker was crazy and obsessed with the old man's eye and it drove him mad. “What you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?” (Poe 6). A historical event I chose was the opening of the Erie Canal. I chose this because it helped people get to places quicker. “All in vain Death, in approaching him” (Poe 7). Just like his death the Erie Canal got them there fast. 

Years: 1840s-1860s

Major Historical Events

with years (list at least 3): Preemption Act (1841), The Webster- Ashburton (1842), and Annexation of Texas (1845)

Major Authors / Works (list

at least 3: Ralph waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson 

Time Period: Transcendentalism 

Dates: Published in 1890 

Point of View: First person 

Themes: Death, immortality, nature, and eternity

Connection: A theme I chose was nature. I chose this because this poem was about death and how the speaker got there. “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain” (Dickinson 11). A historical event I chose was the Webster-Ashburton. This was when Webster-Ashburton agreed on a division of disputed territory. “Because I could not stop for death — He kindly stopped for me—” (Dickinson 1). I chose these because they both were dividing from something. The speaker got divided from the world, the Webster-Ashburton was dividing a territory.

Years: 1820s-1865 

Major Historical Events

with years (list at least 3): Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Kansas Nebraska Act (1854), and Bleeding Kansas (1855)

Major Authors / Works (list

at least 3: Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth

Time Period: Slave Narrative 

Dates: Published in May 1, (1818-1845)

Point of View: First person

Themes: Slavery, sad, crule, justice, and self taught 

Connection: A themes I chose is justice because to Douglass a straightforward depiction the true nature of slavery is one of the most effective ways to combat the injustice of the institution. “I continued to think, and to think about the injustice of my enslavement” (Douglass 52). Historical event I chose was Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin because these are around the same time and Uncle Tom’s Cabin was built around injustice of slavery. “slavery is still hideous” (Douglass 31).

Years: roughly 1901-1950

Major Historical Events: World War I (1914-1918), The Great Depression (1929-1939), World War II (1939-1945), America entered 1941), the Holocaust (1941-1945), Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937), airplanes (1903)

Major authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, etc.

Time Period: Modernism

Dates: Published in 1925 & Set in 1922 

Point of View: First person

Themes: American Dream, fancy, wealthy, sad, and unhappy 

Connection: A theme I chose was sad because Gatsby was not happy. He was sad and never interacted with his guests “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things” (Fitzgerald 53).  A historical event I chose was World War l because that was a sad time for people as well and Gatsby had fought in that war. “And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago” (Fitzgerald 7).