1. Pre-test 1.Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? 2.Who were the Fireside Poets? 3.What is a stanza? 4.What is rhyme scheme? 5.What is consonance? 6.What is alliteration?

2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882

3. Transcendentalism Review  Transcendent forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience  Everyone is capable of discovering higher truth through intuition  Anti-materialistic  Celebration of individualism  Key Players: Emerson, Thoreau

4. Why the heck does this old dude matter? - He is one of the most beloved poets of all time - He was one of the first American writers to write about native themes - Became famous at a time when the most respected writing was coming out of Europe

5. Team Longfellow Team Emerson

6. The Fireside Poets  The first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British Poets  The conventional structure of their poetry made it simple to memorize and recite.  Their poetry became a source of entertainment for American families.

7. Stanza: A group of lines that forms a unit in a poem. Rhyme Scheme: The pattern of end rhyme in a stanza or a poem.

8. Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds within words. “Dust thou art, to dust returnest” Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. “Tell me not in mournful numbers”

9. Genesis 3:19 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

10. Post-test 1.Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? 2.Who were the Fireside Poets? 3.What is a stanza? 4.What is rhyme scheme? 5.What is consonance? 6.What is alliteration?