Theme-Style+Unit

Learning Objective: Theme/Style Unit (First American Voice)
Students will be able to...
 * Identify rhetoric devices
 * Understand and analyze the writer’s choice of rhetoric story elements, specifically "style"
 * Analyze effectiveness of rhetoric elements, specifically "style"
 * Understand and analyze the historical context of literature within the development of American thought
 * Understand the development of American thought expressed in early American writings
 * Identify writer criticism's and apply those criticisms to independent work
 * Identify and analyze complex thematic elements
 * Identify and understand Faustian meaning and allusions

Washington Irving
 * "Rip Van Winkle"
 * "Rip Van Winkle" (text)
 * Continuity and Mutability theme in "Rip Van Winkle"
 * "The Devil and Tom Walker":
 * Devil and Tom Walker (text)
 * Faust allusion
 * "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
 * "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (text)

James Fenimore Cooper
 * //The Last of the Mohicans// (Vol. I, Chapter III)
 * Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses by Mark Twain
 * After reading Twain's essay on Cooper, post your response to him here