Lesson 1

Study Session 1

Essays of Literary Analysis

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Study Session 2

Historical Background

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Study Session 3

Humor and Regional Dialect

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Study Session 4: Regionalism and Local Color

Reading Assignment

Overview

Optional Web Activities

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Study Session 5

Tone and Mood

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Study Session 6

Conflict and Irony

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Regionalism and Local Color

Regionalism and Local Color

Reading Assignment

In Prentice Hall Literature—The American Experience:

• Pages 590–91: “Build Skills”
• Pages 592–602: Bret Harte’s “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”

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