Text Box: Respect for primitivism, other cultures

Text Box: While you watch the movie, make a list of the various components of romanticism in The Last of the Mohicans  In each text box, write  plot details or quotes or background info which you might use as proof in your body paragraphs.  Remember, your thesis is something like, “Romanticism is an integral part of Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans.”

 

 

Text Box: Romantic hero

 

Text Box: Interest in the past

 

Text Box: Individualism 

 

Text Box:  Rejection of perceived European Enlightenment values/civilization/culture: materialism, greed, selfishness, mechanization, authority more important than people, class system, corruption                            

 

Text Box: Inner landscape

 

Text Box: The grotesque, violent, strange, exotic 

 

Text Box: Intuition or imagination more important than logic/reason/revelation

 

Text Box: Follow your passion/ search for beauty/truth

 

Text Box: Love/respect for nature / use of American landscape

 

Text Box: Nationalism/ patriotism / vision for what America could be                              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Getting Started 5.  Incorporating quotes 9.  Using MLA format 13.  Typing your Works Cited
2. Writing your thesis 6.   Weaving in quotations 10. Writing your introduction paragraph 14.  Evaluation
3.  Organizing your body paragraphs 7. Note taking for research (Pay attention to this one!)

11.   Writing your

 body paragraphs

 

  
4.Choosing movie quotes

8. Quotes from other

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 12.  Writing your conclusion  

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