1. Dec 13, 2013

2.  On a piece of paper, write your name at the top.  Place the number of the question before each response.

3. I am going to give you an object, DO NOT UNWRAP IT (… yet)

4. 1. Write a note of thanks for this object. 2. Write down the logical thing to do with this object.

5. 3. Notice the object, list from your senses.  What do you see?  What do you smell?  What do you feel?  What do you hear? (Not from the object, but from others who are also looking at their objects)

6. 4. Write down all the creative things you could do with this object. (think outside the box)

7. 5. Unwrap the object now.  What do you see?  What do you smell?  What do you taste?  What do you feel with it in your mouth?  What do you hear?

8. 6. Describe the sensation of the experience of eating the object.

9. 7. What creepy experiment could Mr. Lyon be doing with these objects? (Be creative)

10. 8. How was this a bonding experience as we all joined in this experiment together? How could we explain this shared experience?

11.  How does this activity represent the literary periods we have covered this semester?  How could the other parts of this activity represent aspects of Romanticism?

12.  What can you tell about Romanticism from this activity?  What are some different aspects of Romanticism?

13.  Hand in your responses

14. Romanticism Unit Essential Question:

15.  12/13- LEQ1: How can things be viewed logically versus creatively?  12/16- LEQ2: What is Romanticism and how does it differ from the Age of Reason?

16. A Movement Across the Arts

17.  Romanticism refers to a movement in art, literature, and music during the 19 th century.  Romanticism is characterized by the 5 “I”s  Imagination  Intuition  Idealism  Inspiration  Individuality

18.  Imagination was emphasized over “reason.”  This was a backlash against the rationalism characterized by the Neoclassical period or “Age of Reason.”  Imagination was considered necessary for creating all art.  British writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it “intellectual intuition.”

19.  Romantics placed value on “intuition,” or feeling and instincts, over reason.  Emotions were important in Romantic art.  British Romantic William Wordsworth described poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

20.  Idealism is the concept that we can make the world a better place.  Idealism refers to any theory that emphasizes the spirit, the mind, or language over matter – thought has a crucial role in making the world the way it is.  Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, held that the mind forces the world we perceive to take the shape of space-and-time.

21.  The Romantic artist, musician, or writer, is an “inspired creator” rather than a “technical master.”  What this means is “going with the moment” or being spontaneous, rather than “getting it precise.”

22.  Romantics celebrated the individual.  During this time period, Women’s Rights and Abolitionism were taking root as major movements.  Walt Whitman, a later Romantic writer, would write a poem entitled “Song of Myself”: it begins, “I celebrate myself…”

23.  Romanticism began to take root as a movement following the French Revolution.  The publication of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1792 is considered the beginning of literary Romanticism.

24.  Romanticism was a movement across all the arts: visual art, music, and literature.  All of the arts embraced themes prevalent in the Middle Ages: chivalry, courtly love. Literature and art from this time depicted these themes. Music (ballets and operas) illustrated these themes.  Shakespeare came back into vogue.

25.  Neoclassical art was rigid, severe, and unemotional; it hearkened back to ancient Greece and Rome  Romantic art was emotional, deeply- felt, individualistic, and exotic. It has been described as a reaction to Neoclassicism, or “anti-Classicism.”

26. Neoclassical Art Romantic Art

34.  “Classical” musicians included composers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Josef Haydn.  Romantic musicians included composers like Frederic Chopin, Franz Lizst, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

35.  1730-1820.  Classical music emphasized internal order and balance.  1800-1910.  Romantic music emphasized expression of feelings.

36.  In America, Romanticism most strongly impacted literature.  Writers explored supernatural and gothic themes.  Writers wrote about nature – Transcendentalists believed God was in nature, unlike “Age of Reason” writers like Franklin and Jefferson, who saw God as a “divine watchmaker,” who created the universe and left it to run itself.

37.  Romanticism  Oliver Wendell Holmes  William Cullen Bryant  Sensory  Gothic  Arabesque  Short story  Tale  Washington Irving  Nathaniel Hawthorne  Edgar Allan Poe  Herman Melville  Irony  Supernatural  Grotesque