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).

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13. Wasn’t that easy? You know you are an expert in American Literature if you can identify these three… 11 12 13

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

15. Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer 1

16. Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” “Tell-Tale Heart” “The Cask of Amontillado” 2

17. Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass” “O Captain, My Captain” 3

18. Thomas Paine Common Sense 4

19. John Grisham A Time to Kill, The Firm and several other lawyer-e books 5

20. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 6

21. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman The Crucible 7

22. Nathanial Hawthorne Scarlet Letter 8

23. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 9

24. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Something Wicked This Way Comes 10

25. Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games Truman Capote In Cold Blood Langston Hughes “The Weary Blues” 11 12 13

26. What do these authors have in common?

27. 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

28. So, how will we learn it? Chronological – History & Literature are intertwined Lots of “ISMS” – philosophical changes in society Represents the dominant group Which is….