Author
|
Lifespan |
Works
Studied
|
| Mark
Twain |
(1835-1910) |
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn |
| Puritanism
& The Beginning of the American Tradition |
(1492-1790)
|
Capt. John Smith, William Bradford,
Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Ben Franklin,
etc. |
| Herman
Melville |
(1819-1891) |
Moby Dick,
"Bartleby The Scrivener", Billy
Budd |
| Nathaniel
Hawthorne |
(1804-1864) |
The Scarlet Letter,
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,"
"Young Goodman Brown" |
| Emily
Dickinson |
(1830-1886) |
Various Poems |
| F.
Scott Fitzgerald |
(1896-1940) |
The Great Gatsby,
"Winter Dreams" |
| Edgar
Allan Poe |
(1809-1849) |
"The Tell-Tale
Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado",
"The Fall of the House of Usher",
"Annabel Lee", "The Raven",
"The Black Cat", "The Bells" |
| Ernest
Hemingway |
(1899-1961) |
The Old Man and The
Sea, A Farewell to Arms,
"A Clean Well-lighted Place |
| Naturalism |
(1890-1915) |
Definitions,
Characteristics, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London,
Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London,
Stephen Crane |
| Jack
London |
(1876-1916) |
Biography, Call of the Wild, "To
Build a Fire" |
| 19th Century Literature/Figures/Ideas |
(1800-1899)
|
Kate Chopin, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Oliver Wendall Holmes, Robert E. Lee, Abraham
Lincoln, Thomas Paine, Transcendentalism, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, etc. |
| American Legends |
(1800's) |
Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Paul
Bunyan, etc. |
| Arthur
Miller |
(1915-)
|
Death of a
Salesman, The Crucible
|
| Tennessee
Williams |
(1911-1983)
|
A Streetcar Named
Desire, The Glass Menegerie
|
| Thornton
Wilder |
(1897-1975) |
Biography, Our Town, The Skin of Our
Teeth |
| Robert
Frost |
(1874-1963) |
Biography, Poems |
| Carl
Sandburg |
(1878-1967) |
Biography, Poems |
| Anne
Sexton |
(1928-1974) |
Biography, Poems |
| Maya
Angelou |
(1928-) |
Biography, Poems, Interview |
| Sandra
Cisneros |
(1954-) |
Biography, news articles, The House
on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, My
Wicked, Wicked Ways, etc. |
| Writing
& Composition |
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|
MLA documentation,
Research Papers, Drafting Your Essay, Using Exact
& Forceful Language, Precis, Thesis
Statement, Verb Tense, Outlining, Using the Names
of Authors, Plaigerism vs. Paraphrasing, etc.
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