Lesson Plan

·        Overview of the Romantic movement and revision of its basic concepts

·        Exploration of the historical situation in America during the nineteenth century

·        Study of the important Romantic concepts in American Literature and the extent to which they are different from their definition in British Romanticism

·        Study of the short story as a distinct genre

·        Study and analysis of the main ideas and themes of the short story "Rip Van Winkle"

·        Analysis of an excerpt from "Rip Van Winkle"

·        Study of an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

·        Ovierview of American gothic literature