First, use a search engine to perform a search for: modernism AND literature, or modernism AND American Literature. Explain in your post why you selected the source you did and what you learned about modernist literary conventions and features.
Using these conventions, analyze a particular symbol, theme, or formal element from Americo Paredes’s “The Hammon and the Beans.” Connect the symbol to the broader meaning of the story itself and explain HOW specifically it expresses a modernist aesthetic.
Then, analyze a particular symbol, theme, or formal element from Zitkala-Sa’s memoir excerpts. Connect the symbol, theme, or element, to the broader meaning of the story and explain HOW specifically it expresses a modernist aesthetic.
You can read Americo Paredes’s “The Hammon and the Beans.” using this link:
https://books.google.com/books?id=6KeswMTsoFoC&lpg=PP1&dq=hammon%20and%20the%20beans&pg=PA1&output=embed