Silent Reading, 20 min

Finish Modern Poetry presentations from Friday.

Ernest Hemingway.

• Characteristics of the Hemingway Hero (PowerPoint). Available here.
• Read "Indian Camp" from In Our Time.

1. What characteristics of the Hemingway Hero are displayed by Nick Adams in this story?
2. What typical characteristics of Modernism does Hemingway display through this story?

Review Modernism for Test on Wednesday, May 12.
Literature covered includes:

• Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck.
• Modern Short Stories: "Soldier's Home" (Hemingway), "Leader of the People" (Steinbeck), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (Thurber), "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" (Porter), "A Worn Path" (Welty), "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (O'Connor), "Winter Dreams" (Fitzgerald)
• "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner and "The Feather Pillow," Horacio Quiroga
• Harlem Renaissance Poetry: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes
• Robert Frost
• Other Modern poets: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, e.e. cummings, Carl Sandburg, Allen Ginsberg, Edgar Lee Masters, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay
• "Indian Camp," Ernest Hemingway

You may use your books and notes for the test (including your goldenrod sheet).