ACCELERATED AMERICAN LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
REVOLUTIONARY AND ROMANTIC WRITERS
Compare and Contrast
Compare and Contrast one of the following and write a three page essay:
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The “Declaration of Independence” and Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention”.
Anne Bradstreet’s poetry and Edward Taylor’s poetry.
Philip Freneau’s poetry and Phillis Wheatley’s poetry.
Choose any combination of the following poets:
a. William Cullen Bryant
b. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Oliver Wendell Holmes
e. James Russell Lowell
PLAN OF ACTION:
1) To begin your paper, consult any class notes, your book, and other resources to make a list of concrete
details (Venn Diagram) that support your ideas.
2) Organize your ideas around a good thesis statement.
3) Find concrete evidence from the literature to support your thesis and your supporting ideas, and plan to
use this evidence in your paper in the form of quotes. For this paper, cite your quotes using page
numbers only, unless you use a source other than the ones I provided.
4) Write a draft of your essay, leave it for a day, and then revise your essay checking that your ideas are
clear, supported, and well organized and that your spelling and punctuation are correct.
5) Read your paper aloud to yourself, and also have someone else read your paper before you make a final
draft.
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Peer Editing Day
The poets and their poetry (available in your textbook):
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
from Contemplations
Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
Edward Taylor
Meditation Six
Preface to God’s Determinations Touching His Elect
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Philip Freneau
Ode
The Wild Honey Suckle
from The American Village
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
Phillis Wheatley
His Excellency, General Washington
Liberty and Peace
On Being Brought From Africa to America
William Cullen Bryant
To a Waterfowl
To the Fringed Gentian
Thanatopsis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Hymn to the Night
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Divina Commedia
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ichabod
Telling the Bees
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Last Leaf
Contentment
The Chambered Nautilus
Old Ironsides
James Russell Lowell
The First Snow-Fall
from Under the Old Elm