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Maya Angelou (1928-2014) ✔✔20th century African-American writer, poet and activist. Best- known for her work "I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings".
Jane Austen (1775-1817) ✔✔English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Known for Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) ✔✔A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemmas, including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit
Willa Cather (1873-1947) ✔✔American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) ✔✔American novelist and short story author in a realist or impressionist vein. Stylistically characterized by vivid intensity, distinctive dialects, and irony.
Common themes involve fear, spiritual crises and social isolation. Recognized primarily for The Red Badge of Courage.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) ✔✔American poet who, despite spending life as a recluse, created a vivid inner world through poetry, exploring themes of nature, love, death and immortality. Refusing to publish during her lifetime, she left behind nearly two thousand poems, which were published after her death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ✔✔Essayist, poet. A leading transcendentalist, emphasizing freedom and self-reliance in essays which still make him a force today. He had an international reputation as a first-rate poet. He spoke and wrote many works on the behalf of the Abolitionists.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ✔✔American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited.
Anne Frank (1929-1945) ✔✔Dutch-Jewish girl who, with other Jews, hid from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944; kept a diary of her family's life in hiding after the Nazis overran the Netherlands. She was later found and sent to a concentration camp where she died.
Harper Lee (1926-2016) ✔✔American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature.
Harlem Renaissance ✔✔1. an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
- Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes
- Approx. 1918 - mid-1930s
British Romantics ✔✔1. Era of major social change in England, due to depopulation of the countryside and rapid development of overcrowded industrial cities that took place roughly between 1798 and 1832. Huge focus on writing about and personifying nature.
- John Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, William Blake
- Peaked 1800-
Metaphysical Poets ✔✔1. poets whose works are marked by philosophical exploration, colloquial diction, ingenious conceits, irony, and metrically flexible lines; the inclusion of contemporary scientific advancements were also typical
- John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert
Transcendentalism ✔✔1. a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States. It arose as a reaction, to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time; belief that each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Old English Period ✔✔1. covered a period of 700 years, from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century to the late 11th century
- Beowulf, Dream of the Rood.
Middle English Period ✔✔1. approximately spans 1100-
- Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Haiku ✔✔
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Tone ✔✔
Voice ✔✔
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Free Verse ✔✔
Socratic Seminar ✔✔a formal discussion, based on a text, in which the leader asks open-ended questions; students listen closely, think critically, and articulate their own thoughts and their responses to the thoughts of others
Think-Pair-Share ✔✔technique in which one thinks about a topic alone, shares their ideas with someone else, then shares their ideas with the whole class/group
Discussion Strategies ✔✔1. Socratic seminar
- think-pair-share
- small groups
- whole class
