American Literature - Alpha Omega Academy

Unit 3: War and Reconciliation, 1855-1915Assignments1. Project: Unit 3 11. William Dean Howells2. Secession and Loyalty, 1855-1865: Introduction 12. Henry James3. Frederick Douglass 13. Quiz 2: Realism and Naturalism4. Harriet Beecher Stowe 14. Naturalists, Regionalists, and Realists: StephenCrane5. Spirituals 15. Kate Chopin6. Robert E. Lee 16. Paul Laurence Dunbar7. Abraham Lincoln 17. Jack London8. Quiz 1: Secession and Loyalty 18. Quiz 3: Naturalists, Regionalists, and Realists9. Realism and Naturalism, 1865-1915:19. Test: War and ReconciliationIntroduction10. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) 20. ReferenceUnit 4: The Modern Age, 1915-1946Assignments1. The Modern Age 10. W.H. Auden2. Modern Prose: Ernest Hemingway 11. Quiz 2: Modern Poetry3. F. Scott Fitzgerald 12. Other Modern Age Literature: HarlemRenaissance, Langston Hughes4. Quiz 1: The Modern Age 13. Drama: Thornton Wilder5. Modern Poetry: Ezra Pound 14. Religious Works: J. Gresham Machen6. Carl Sandburg 15. Quiz 3: Other Modern Age Literature7. E.E. Cummings 16. Test: The Modern Age8. Wallace Stevens 17. Reference9. Robert FrostUnit 5: From Modern to Postmodern, 1946-PresentAssignments1. The Birth of Postmodernism: Introduction 10. Quiz 2: More Contemporary Writers2. Flannery O’Connor (1) 11. Social Issues: Martin Luther King, Jr.3. Flannery O’Connor (2) 12. Ralph Ellison4. Flannery O’Connor (3) 13. Gwendolyn Brooks5. Theodore Roethke 14. Quiz 3: Social Issues6. Quiz 1: The Birth of Postmodernism 15. Test: From Modern to Postmodern7. More Contemporary Writers: Eudora Welty 16. Course Survey American Literature8. John Updike 17. Reference9. Robert Trail Spence Lowell, Jr.3