English Literature Authors and Their Works

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Grade Level

• High School

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Subject

• Literature

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Length of Time

• 1 Hour

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Description

• This lesson is on English Literature Authors. It is a worksheet where students have to match the authors to the short story or book they wrote.

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Goals

• Students will learn:
  
  * About English Literature Authors
  
  * About their short stories or books
  
  * To match the authors with their short stories or books
  
  

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Materials Needed

• * The worksheet I have provided in this lesson
  
  * Pencils and Erasers or Pens
  
  

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Procedure

• English Literature Authors: Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, John Milton, Anonymous, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Bunyan, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Anne Bronte, John Dryden, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Bernard Shaw, Geoffrey Chaucer, T. S. Eliot, Sir William Golding, Jane Austin, and Joseph Conrad.
  
  First, you will need to prepare the students ahead of time by going over the authors listed above and the main works they wrote. You can use the works that are in the answer sheet.
  
  After that, you will copy the worksheet for each student.
  
  Then, you will give the students the worksheet so they can work independently. You can use this as a test.
  
  
  
  Worksheet - English Literature Authors
  
  Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct author. Here is a list of the authors used in this lesson: Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, John Milton, Anonymous, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Bunyan, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Anne Bronte, John Dryden, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Bernard Shaw, Geoffrey Chaucer, T. S. Eliot, Sir William Golding, Jane Austin, and Joseph Conrad.
  
  1. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
  _______________
  
  2. Who wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?
  _______________
  
  3. Who wrote Pilgrim's Progess?
  _______________
  
  4. Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?
  _______________
  
  5. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
  _______________
  
  6. Who wrote Beowulf?
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  7. Who wrote To a Skylark?
  _______________
  
  8. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
  _______________
  
  9. Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
  _______________
  
  10. Who wrote Jane Eyre?
  _______________
  
  11. Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?
  _______________
  
  12. Who wrote Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
  _______________
  
  13. Who wrote Lord Jim?
  _______________
  
  14. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?
  _______________
  
  15. Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
  _______________
  
  16. Who wrote The Hobbit?
  _______________
  
  17. Who wrote The Wasteland?
  _______________
  
  18. Who wrote Pygmalion?
  _______________
  
  19. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
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  20. Who wrote Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
  _______________
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Answers to the Worksheet
  
  1. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
  
  John Milton
  
  2. Who wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?
  
  William Shakespeare
  
  3. Who wrote Pilgrim's Progess?
  
  John Bunyan
  
  4. Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?
  
  Jonathan Swift
  
  5. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
  
  Daniel Defoe
  
  6. Who wrote Beowulf?
  
  Anonymous Author
  
  7. Who wrote To a Skylark?
  
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  
  8. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
  
  Jane Austin
  
  9. Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
  
  Emily Jane Bronte
  
  10. Who wrote Jane Eyre?
  
  Charlotte Bronte
  
  11. Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?
  
  Anne Bronte
  
  12. Who wrote Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
  
  James Joyce
  
  13. Who wrote Lord Jim?
  
  Joseph Conrad
  
  14. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?
  
  D. H. Lawrence
  
  15. Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
  
  Sir William Golding
  
  16. Who wrote The Hobbit?
  
  J.R.R. Tolkien
  
  17. Who wrote The Wasteland?
  
  T. S. Eliot
  
  18. Who wrote Pygmalion?
  
  George Bernard Shaw
  
  19. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
  
  Geoffery Chaucer
  
  20. Who wrote Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
  
  John Dryden
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Grading

• 100 to 90 = A
  
  89 to 80 = B
  
  79 to 70 = C
  
  69 to 60 = D
  
  Below 60 = F
  

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