American Literature / Unit 19 AML 1814 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Twenty Author–Work Pairs Worth Knowing Cold
The idea
Bradstreet and The Tenth Muse. Rowson and Charlotte Temple. Franklin and the Autobiography. Irving and "Rip Van Winkle." Emerson and Nature. Thoreau and Walden. Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter. Melville and Moby-Dick. Whitman and Leaves of Grass. Douglass and the Narrative. Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Chopin and The Awakening. Crane and The Red Badge of Courage. Eliot and The Waste Land. Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby. Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises. Faulkner and The Sound and the Fury. Ellison and Invisible Man. Morrison and The Bluest Eye. Learn each pair in both directions, title to author and author to title, because the board asks it both ways.
In practice
Twenty pairs, learned in both directions.
Where people slip
Knowing a pair is not knowing a book. The interpretation band is larger than the knowledge band, so pairs are the floor and reading is the work.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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