Silent Reading, book checkout in IMC.

Introduce Realists.

• View short video about Literary period and answer these questions:

1. What deprivations did African-Americans and Women share during this period?
2. What details in the video describe the work it took to begin to change this situation?
3. How do mental attitudes or mind-sets in a society create and sustain the deprivations aimed at some individuals or groups?
4. What do you think gave abolitionists and women's rights advocates the courage to oppose the prevailing thought of the time? What did they risk by doing so?

• View Literary & Political/Social Events timeline (pp. 444-5).
• Preview major Political and Social Milestones for Realist period (pp. 446-7).