Estudios de autor: comprensión de la gran literatura

Did you know Hemingway tried to take out enemy submarines with his own fishing boat? Or that Emily Bronte died because she accidentally drank cemetery runoff water?? Yep! 

This class is a new twist on learning literature! 

We will be learning about some of the greatest authors of all time! That means fun facts, important milestones, and a deep dive into their personal and professional lives. Of course, one of the best ways to get to know an author is by reading their work... so each week we will be reading an excerpt from some of their best works! 



January:
Ernest Hemingway
Agatha Christie
Charlotte Bronte
Maya Angelou

February:
Emily Bronte
Walt Whitman
Mary Shelley
Leo Tolstoy

March:
Mary Oliver
George Orwell
Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Irving

April:
Shel Silverstein
E.E. Cummings
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen

May:
J.K. Rowling
Virginia Woolf
F. Scott Fitzgerald 
Mark Twain

June:
Elizabeth Browning
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
James Joyce

July:
D.H. Lawrence 
John Steinbeck 
William Butler Yeats
Fyodor Dostoevsky

...and more to come!