Easy, low-prep, print-and-go resource to review key time periods in American Literature in secondary English Language Arts classes! Review literary movements and get students moving with this engaging and fun scavenger hunt activity!

This is a low-prep resource to review various key time periods in American Literature. It includes...

• Ten key time periods
• Scavenger hunt posters for each time period
• Teacher instructions
• Student recording sheets
• Answer key
• ...and tons of fun for your students!

This engaging activity will have students up and moving as they hunt down the literary movements based on a description. Plus, the student response sheet is easily gradable and comes with an answer key!

Time Periods included:

• Early & Indigenous (1490 - 1670)
• Puritanism (1670 - 1790)
• Enlightenment & Rationalism (1750 - 1800)
• Romanticism & Transcendentalism (1800 - 1860)
• Realism & Naturalism (1860 - 1914)
• Modernism (1914 - 1950)
• Harlem Renaissance (1920 - 1930)
• Beat Generation (1950 - 1965)
• Postmodernism (1950 - Present)
• Contemporary (1970 - Present)

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