English
1. Choose a culture that you know nothing about (Japanese, Samoan, Afrikaans, Cherokee, any culture).
2. Search online to find some poems and/or stories created by that culture, and read them.
3. Choose a time period in American literature Early American, Puritan, Colonial, Age of Reason, Enlightenment, Naturalism, Regionalism, Realism, Modernism, Post Modernism, Contemporary).
4. Read some poems and stories from that American time period.
5. Select one story or poem from your researched culture and one story or poem from your researched time period.
6. Find at least one universal theme, one universal symbol, or one archetype they share (The more similarities, the better).
7. Copy the literature (or the links to the literature) to a document.
8. Write a one- or two-paragraph analysis of the universal concept that the two pieces of literature share.
9. Support your analysis with quotes and examples.
10. Suggest why you think the universal themes, symbols, or characters you noticed are present across cultural and temporal (time) differences.