Easy, no-prep, print-and-go resource to review major works and key time periods in American Literature! Switch things up in the secondary English Language Arts classroom with this fun cut-and-paste puzzle!

This is a no-prep resource to review various key time periods and texts in American Literature. It includes...

• A puzzle activity with student instructions
• Teacher instructions
• Answer key
• ...and tons of fun for your students!

This engaging activity will have students mentally and physically engaged in their learning! Even teenagers need to embrace the joy of a cut-and-paste task...and you can rest assured that within the fun, there is also rigor as students are exposed to vital literary works and movements!

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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