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AMERICAN PASSAGES encourages an open-ended thematic approach to American literature, with an organizing principal of five Guiding Questions:
What is an American?
What is American Literature?
How do place and time shape an author's works, and our understanding of them?
What characteristics of a literary work have made it influential over time?
How are American myths created, challenged and re-imagined through this literature?
THE INSTRUCTOR GUIDE:
Each Unit of the Instructor Guide includes thematically-organized contextual materials ready for classroom use. The Guides can be viewed as web pages with hyperlinks to corresponding materials in the Online Archive, and in PDF for easy downloading and printing at http://www.learner.org/amerpass/index.html
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Set in the antebellum American South, but written after Emancipation,
Mark Twain's novel The Adventure's of Huckleberry Finn remains a
classic of American Literature. This episode compares Twain's depiction of Southern vernacular culture to that ...of Charles Chestnutt and Kate Chopin, and in doing so, introduces the hallmarks of American Realism.
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March 8, 2010 at 01:52 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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When British colonists landed in the Americas they created communities that they hoped would serve as a "light onto the nations." But what role would the native inhabitants play in this new model community? This Unit compares the answers of three imp...ortant groups, the Puritans, Quakers, and Native Americans, and exposes the lasting influence they had upon American identity.
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March 8, 2010 at 01:34 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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This program presents the authors of the American Gilded Age, such as Edith Wharton, and juxtaposes them with social realists like Anzia
Yezierska. These writers expose the double world that made up
turn-of-the-century New York: that of the elite... and that of the poorest
of the poor. Which of these realities is the more truly American?
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March 8, 2010 at 01:54 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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For many, the 1960s mark the true end of modern America. Whereas the modernists remained serious about the transcendent nature of art, the artists of the 1960s wanted an art that was relevant. They wanted an art that not only spoke about justice, but... also helped create it. This program explores the innovations made in American poetry in the 1960s by
Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Adrienne Rich
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March 8, 2010 at 02:07 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Jazz filled the air and wailed against the night. Caught in the sway,
American prose writers sought out the forbidden - the slang, the
dialects, and the rhythms of the folk and of everyday life. Writers such as Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald fo...rged a new style: one which silhouetted the geometry of language, crisp in its own cleanness.
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March 8, 2010 at 01:59 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa tells us that the border is "una herida
abierta [an open wound] where the lifeblood of two worlds is merging to form a third country — a border culture." This program explores the literature of the Chicano borderlands... and its beginnings in the
literature of Spanish colonization. Learning activities that go with this lesson can be found at: http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit02/index.html
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March 8, 2010 at 01:29 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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This episode guides the viewer through the works and contexts of ethnic writers from 1945-1965. Starting with the works of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Philip Roth, and N. Scott Momaday, we explore the way writers from the margins took over the center of Ame...rican culture.
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March 8, 2010 at 02:05 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Even as the poets covered in Unit 15, Poetry of Liberation, were
fostering a rebellion, contemporary prose writers began creating a new American tradition comprised of many strands, many voices, and many myths about the past. This program explores ...the search for identity by three American writers: Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and
Leslie Feinberg.
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March 8, 2010 at 02:09 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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The Enlightenment brought new ideals and a new notion of selfhood to the American colonies. This program begins with an examination of the importance of the trope of the self-made man in Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, and then turns to the develo...pment of this concept in the writings of Romanticist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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March 8, 2010 at 01:42 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Americans have often defined themselves through their relationship to
the land. This program traces the social fiction of three key American
voices: John Steinbeck, Carlos Bulosan, and Helena María Viramontes.
March 8, 2010 at 02:01 PM
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