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What do you know about American Literature?

What do you know about American Literature?. Who can you identify?. With your partner, write down the names of the following American authors (bonus if you can also name a title of one of their works). Wasn’t that easy?

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What do you know about American Literature?

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  1. What do you know about American Literature?

  2. Who can you identify? With your partner, write down the names of the following American authors (bonus if you can also name a title of one of their works).

  3. Wasn’t that easy? You know you are an expert in American Literature if you can identify these three…

  4. Trade papers with another group and let’s see how you did …

  5. Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer

  6. Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” “Tell-Tale Heart” “The Cask of Amontillado”

  7. Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”

  8. Thomas Paine Common Sense

  9. John Grisham A Time to Kill, The Firm and several other lawyer-e books

  10. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  11. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman The Crucible

  12. Nathanial Hawthorne Scarlet Letter

  13. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

  14. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Something Wicked This Way Comes

  15. Langston Hughes “The Weary Blues” Jack Keroauc “On the Road” Truman Capote In Cold Blood

  16. What do you find “odd” about this collection of authors?

  17. Why do we need to study American Literature? It reflects us – who we are as a country Shows how our beliefs as a country were formed Tells the story of U.S. (pun intended), in a universal way

  18. So, how will we learn it? Chronological – History & Literature are intertwined Lots of “ISMS” – philosophical changes in society Represents the dominant group (ODWG) (but we will explore authors from outside the dominant group Latino/a Authors, African American Authors, Asian American Authors, Women, etc.)

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