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

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Study Session 5: Tone and Mood

Reading Assignment

Overview

Optional Web Activities

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Study Session 6

Conflict and Irony

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Tone and Mood

Tone and Mood

Reading Assignment

In Prentice Hall Literature—The American Experience:

• Pages 606–07: “Build Skills”
• Pages 608–13: Miriam Davis Colt’s “Heading West”
• Page 614: Chief Joseph’s “I Will Fight No More Forever”

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