By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

  1. Define realism and its key characteristics.
  2. Explain how realism differed from Romanticism.
  3. Analyze how realism appears in journalism and nonfiction.
  4. Compare the themes of realism in different American authors.
  5. Debate whether realism provides a more truthful depiction of society than Romanticism.
  6. Write a short narrative in a realist style.

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