Introduce the key literary movements and time periods in American Literature through an interactive investigation!

The resource includes a Google Slides presentation to review as a whole class, as well as a "literary movement investigation" one-pager that can be completed independently or in groups/pairs.

Students will complete their one-pager via an interactive Google Slide. This lesson is created for digital use, but you can adapt it to a print version if you choose to edit the one-pager slide document!

Time periods covered in this activity include:

• Early and Indigenous (1490 - 1670)
• Puritanism (1670 - 1790)
• Enlightenment and Rationalism (1750 - 1800)
• Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1800 - 1840)
• Realism and Naturalism (1860 - 1914)
• Modernism (1914 - 1950)
• Harlem Renaissance (1920 - 1930)
• Beat Generation (1950 - 1965)
• Postmodernism (1950 - Present)
• Contemporary (1950 - Present)

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