Unit Seven: Imperialism, Progressivism, and early Modernism

Jan 30: Introduce unit; reintroduce progressivism, preview American imperialism, look at local
progressives like Jane Addams and her Hull House

Jan 31: Intro to Black History Month: The Great Migration through Jacob Lawrence’s paintings; Harlem
Renaissance

Feb 1: Progressivism and Imperialism in one White House: the Theodore Roosevelt presidency

Feb 2 (40-minute class): Introduction to Modernism with a few poems

Feb 5: The progressive Taft administration; the Election of 1912; the Wilson domestic presidency

Feb 6: Symbolism and Imagism; if time, New Criticism introduction with Amy Lowell

Feb 7: Foreign policy and intervention leading up to the Wilson presidency; the Great War begins

Feb 8: T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Feb 9: Annotated Bibliography #1; A research conversation and how to proceed from here

Feb 12: the United States in the Great War: the Fourteen Points, AEF, and Treaty of Versailles

Feb 13: Sherwood Anderson’s “Sophistication” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “How it Feel to be Colored
Me”: a comparison and Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory: “Hills Like White Elephants” (in class)

Feb 14: The Great War ends, a Red Scare, immigration restrictions, speech curtailed?

Feb 15: Review

Feb 16: Test