AMERICAN LITERATURE

We talk about many things in my English class. My teacher made us learn about so many things we don't think about or we get taught in other English classes. You know we all have to take English. american literature, but have you thought of what it meant. Why it's called American literature? Do you guys have an idea of what american or literature means? I never really thought of it. To me, I thought american is just someone that was born in America. Literature to me, was just learning about the way of writing.Today we told the told what it meant to us. We didn't know. He told us to search what it meant. Here is what I got from searching literature.

Literature- written  works, especially those considered of superior or last artistic merit

For american, I did't really know because their was many different definitions. Afterwards, we told the teacher what we found for american literature. All of us got different definitions, here are some. Most of us,  didn't have a definition for american. So he told us what it meant. He says it's something you adopt, it's not because you were born in america.

Literature
-writing (narrative stories /meaning)
-written works
-poetry/ journalism / advice
-art of writing
-last artistic merit

American
-adopted