1. “A Growing Nation” 1800-1870 We will walk with our own feet we will work with our own hands we will speak our own minds -Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. Puritan Life—(simple) Expansion (Busy)

3. Political and Social Milestones The Louisiana Purchase - 1803 The Gold Rush - 1849 Education and Reform (throughout the 19 th century) Industry booming; Cities growing; Political changes; new bold writers.

4. Introduction “The Romantic Writers.” Romantics saw the city as a place of moral corruption, poverty, and death.

5. Characteristics of Romanticism values feelings over intuition values the power of the imagination seeks the beauty of unspoiled nature (rejected expansion) values youthful innocence values individual freedom values expansion of self; and not the world around them. finds beauty in exotic locales, the supernatural, and in the imagination values poetry as the highest expression of the imagination values myth, legend, and folk culture

6. “Romanticism” Writers include: Edgar Allan Poe Nathanial Hawthorne Herman Melville Washington Irving

7. Washington Irving > First American fiction writer to receive international fame-perfected the short story > Born in New York of wealthy parents-1783 (died 1859) > Wrote The Legend Of Sleeping Hallow and Rip Van Winkle > Popularized the word “Gotham” to describe New York—later used in Batman and the word “knickerbockers” to describe New Yorkers.

8. Direct Characterization: The author directly tells you about the character’s personality For example: Steve was a cheap individual.

9. Indirect Characterization: The author tells you about the character’s personality through physical description, his/her thoughts, words, actions, or through other characters’ comments For example: Steve left just enough for the tip, despite the fact that the waitress was really good.

10. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins and is defined as…. Greed: an excessive desire to possess wealth, goods, or abstract things of value with the intention to keep it for one's self. WRITING PROMPT: Write about a time you witnessed a person or a group of people being greedy. This could be first- hand or from your knowledge of history.