American Culture

    1.  America's formal break with Europe

    2.  American emphasis on individual dignity

    3.  Growth of industrial cities.

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    After the Second Great Awakening a
                   reverence for God permeated society.
 
 

    Read pages 234-235 and write at least one work   that each of these authors wrote.

    James Fenimore Cooper  - first truly American author

    Washington Irving   works        has park in Bixby named after him

    William Cullen Bryant    Thanatopsis

    Edgar Allan Poe  works                Scary short stories

    Nathaniel Hawthorne    Scarlet Letter

    Herman Melville            Moby Dick

    Henry David Thoreau    Walden

    George Bancroft            History of the US

    Francis Parkman            California and Oregon Trail

    Fireside Poets

    Horace Greeley        Newspaper editor

    Find each American artist and song writer listed
                       below and find one famous work for each.

  American Artists

    Gilbert Stuart tour`                            famous portrait painter

   Charles Willson Peale  tour    famous still life painter

   Edward Hicks  tour            famous peaceable kingdom painter

   Samuel F. B. Morse       also a landscape painter

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   Spiritual - African American's most significant contribution to music.

                    1.  Songs combined the African heritage with the power of praise
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   Stephen Foster  Composed Camptown Races and  Oh Susanna

   Lowell Mason  carried on the tradition of the singing schools

Lesson Objectives Students will learn OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to: 1. list 2. explain the difference between 3. describe the 4. chart on a map the 5. define the terms 6. Explain the significance of Knowledge: Recall of data. Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words. Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace. Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.  Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.