1. Chickamauga
Ambrose Bierce

2. Class Work Research project
Class rubric – what needs to be on our rubric to accurately complete and grade our project?

3. Literary Term
Imagery – Words or phrases that use description to create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind
Olfactory (smell)
Auditory (sound)
Tactile (touch)
Gustatory (taste)
Visual
Kinesthetic (emotion)

4. Ambrose Bierce
1842 – 1914 (?)

5. Ambrose Bierce
1842 – 1914 ?
Bierce was known as “Bitter Bierce” as a child – he was apparently pessimistic and negative as a youngster.
He joined the Union Army as a young man and witnessed a great deal of the horror of war.

6. He moved West after the war, writing for magazines
After moving West, he met other American writers, such as Bret Hart and Mark Twain
A few years abroad gave him a style that was satirical and sophisticated, solidifying his reputation as a writer

7. He loved unusual and strange occurrences, and his death was a mystery, too
He traveled to Mexico and was believed to be killed during the Mexican Revolution
He is known to have been among some of the fighting, but disappeared and was never heard from again

8. Naturalism
Bierce is one of the finest authors in the genre of American Naturalism
Remember: Naturalism believes that human beings are “shaped by heredity and environment that they cannot control.”

9. Chickamauga, page 162
The story takes place during a major battle in the Civil War
The main character, however, is not a soldier or even the war; it is a small child
Animal imagery is used in the story; Naturalism questions whether human beings are as superior to the animal world as we believe…

10. Class Work View the movie version of the story Read the story in class
Take note of things that you don’t understand
Read the story in class
Note imagery and other important literary devices used by the author
Complete Literary Critique, page 167, #s 1-4

11. “Engraver’s Art”

12. Summing it Up…
How does the story compare to the information you learned in your research project? Does one seem more accurate than the other, more biased, or more factual? Does the emotion of the story enhance your understanding of the War, or do you feel that it is “overdone”?
Your response should be as a complete essay, not simply a list of answers to the prompt