The Frontier Myth is one of the most influential myths in American culture. The frontier is the concept of a place that exists at the edge of a civilization, particularly during a period of expansion.
This occured from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries as Euro-Americans colonized and expanded across North America. This period of time became romanticized and idealized in literature and art to form a myth. A foremost scholar on the subject, defines the myth of the frontier as "America as a wide-open land of unlimited opportunity for the strong, ambitious, self-reliant individual to thrust his way to the top". This philosophy still exists in North America. A further word to describe this land of opportunities is PRAIRIE.
Your parents will have probably seen a famous TV series "Little House on the Prairie" that showed how families lived on the American frontier. This is the story if you want to give it a try, click on the image below. Only volunteers and if you want to improve your mark. You will have to show you have read it with a Powerpoint Presentation where you will analyse the historical context, summarise its plot and write a review.
With this, I want to give extra time for some of you who need to catch up with work and delight those early-finishers who always long for more!!
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