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                | 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 | ---- | 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. |  |  |