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! 

October: 
Mary Shelley
Edgar Allan Poe

November:
Ernest Hemingway
Agatha Christie
Charlotte Bronte
Maya Angelou

December:
Emily Bronte
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
Leo Tolstoy

January:
Mary Oliver
George Orwell
Emily Dickinson 
Washington Irving

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

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

April:
Elizabeth Browning
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
James Joyce

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

...and more to come!