American 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 American Literature Authors and their works. It is a worksheet where students have to match the authors to the short story, poem, or book they wrote.

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Goals

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

• American Literature Authors: Here is a list of the authors used in this lesson: Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Washington Irving, James Fenmore Cooper, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edwin Arlington Robinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, James Baldwin, and Robert Frost.
  
  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 - American Literature Authors
  
  Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct author.
  
  Here is a list of the authors used in this lesson: Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Washington Irving, James Fenmore Cooper, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edwin Arlington Robinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, James Baldwin, and Robert Frost.
  
  1. Who wrote Young Goodman Brown?
  _______________
  
  2. Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
  _______________
  
  3. Who wrote the Leatherstocking Tales?
  _______________
  
  4. Who wrote Leaves of Grass?
  _______________
  
  5. Who wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?
  _______________
  
  6. Who wrote The Open Boat?
  _______________
  
  7. Who wrote Bartleby and Scrivener?
  _______________
  
  8. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
  _______________
  
  9. Who wrote The House of Mirth?
  _______________
  
  10. Who wrote My Antonia?
  _______________
  
  11. Who wrote The Waste Land?
  _______________
  
  12. Who wrote The Call of the Wild?
  _______________
  
  13. Who wrote The Sun Also Rises?
  _______________
  
  14. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
  _______________
  
  15. Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
  _______________
  
  16. Who wrote That Evening Sun?
  _______________
  
  17. Who wrote Tilbury Town?
  _______________
  
  18. Who wrote The Road Not Taken?
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  19. Who wrote Sonny's Blues?
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  20. Who wrote Tom Sawyer?
  _______________
  
  
  
  Answers to the Worksheet
  
  1. Who wrote Young Goodman Brown?
  
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  2. Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
  
  Washington Irving
  
  3. Who wrote the Leatherstocking Tales?
  
  James Fenmore Cooper
  
  4. Who wrote Leaves of Grass?
  
  Walt Whitman
  
  5. Who wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?
  
  Edgar Allan Poe
  
  6. Who wrote The Open Boat?
  
  Stephen Crane
  
  7. Who wrote Bartleby and Scrivener?
  
  Herman Melville
  
  8. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
  
  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
  9. Who wrote The House of Mirth?
  
  Edith Wharton
  
  10. Who wrote My Antonia?
  
  Willa Cather
  
  11. Who wrote The Waste Land?
  
  T. S. Eliot
  
  12. Who wrote The Call of the Wild?
  
  Jack London
  
  13. Who wrote The Sun Also Rises?
  
  Ernest Hemingway
  
  14. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
  
  John Steinbeck
  
  15. Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
  
  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  16. Who wrote That Evening Sun?
  
  William Faulkner
  
  17. Who wrote Tilbury Town?
  
  Edwin Arlington Robinson
  
  18. Who wrote The Road Not Taken?
  
  Robert Frost
  
  19. Who wrote Sonny's Blues?
  
  James Baldwin
  
  20. Who wrote Tom Sawyer?
  
  Mark Twain
  
  
  
  
  

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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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