what do you know about american literature?. who can you identify? with your partner, write down the...
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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).
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Wasn’t that easy?
You know you are an expert in American Literature if you can identify these three…
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Trade papers with another group and
let’s see how you did …
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
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Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven”
“Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
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Walt Whitman
“Leaves of Grass”
“O Captain, My Captain”
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Thomas Paine
Common Sense
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John Grisham
A Time to Kill, The Firmand several
other lawyer-e books
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Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
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Nathanial Hawthorne
Scarlet Letter
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
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Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Suzanne CollinsThe Hunger Games
Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood
Langston Hughes“The Weary Blues”
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What do these authors have in common?
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
So, how will we learn it?
Chronological – History & Literature are intertwined
Lots of “ISMS” – philosophical changes in society
Represents the dominant group
Which is….