an American mythology

Moon Palace:an American mythology

Voyages, Territoires et Frontières

CURRICULUM

OBJECTIVES

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QUIZLET

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Since the time of the first settlers; the unity of American culture has been based on movement...

Louisiana Purchase

Map : Western Expansion

Discover the West

Look at the map/timeline and watch the video. Task 1 : Why was this expedition a real challenge ? Task 2: Why can we say that it defined a continent and changed the course of a nation forever? Task 3: how can you relate this expedition to Moon Palace?

Discover the West

Vocab

Look at and analyse this picture:Give a definition of "American Progress" as illustrated by this painting. Use elements of this document to justify.

John Gast, American progress (1872)

Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny

Moonlight

“In the second or third room, you’ll find Blakelock’s painting Moonlight on one of the walls, and at that point you’ll stop. Look at the painting. Look at the painting for no less than an hour, ignoring everything else in the room. Concentrate. Look at it from various distances-from ten feet away, from two feet away, from one inch away. Study it for its overall composition, study it for it details. Don’t take any notes. See if you can memorize all the elements of the picture, learning the precise location of the human figures, the natural objects, the colors on each and every spot of the canvas. Close your eyes and test yourself. Open them again. See if you can’t begin to enter the landscape before you. See if you can’t begin to enter the mind of the artist who painted the landscape before you. Imagine that you are Blakelock, painting the picture yourself....” Chapter four, Moon Palace, Paul Auster.

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Moonlight

Reading comprehension "Moon Palace" from page 137 to page 139

• Compare the text to your own description of the painting : Moonlight, RA Blakelock (1885)

• ● Which elements convey the impression that the narrator criticizes the Manifest destiny ?

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CORRECTION

Use the previous documents and this one to write an article.

point of view

A native american

Manifest Destiny

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The frontier

How are frontiers portrayed in Moon palace? How do they impact on the major characters?

Moon Palace as an allegory of the settlement of theAmerican West and the pushing back of the frontier!

a) Find references in MP about going West and the reasons why. b) Relate them to the documents below.

Going west

Gp#3 : A myth

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a) Discuss how the bikers embody the American spirit. b) Is Marco Fogg a biker?

Gp #1 : Born to be wild

a) To what extent is the West a myth? b) Relate the documents to MP.

Gp #2 : the New Frontier

Let's recap!

Discuss on the myth of the frontier : itsimpact on the American civilization, culture and art.