Famous American Writers
Task 1. INTRODUCTION
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What do you like reading best: books, newspapers, magazines, Facebook posts?
What’s your favourite book?
Do you prefer reading novels, short stories, or poems?
Do you know any American writers?
Can you think of any books that have been banned in the past?
Task 2. VOCABULARY
Look at the words below. Check with your partner if you know what they mean and try to guess how they could be
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Nobel Prize in Literature
Pulitzer Prize
censorship
vernacular
ban (banned book)
steamboat
stagecoach
narrative style
conceptualization
maiden (from the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe)
kinsmen (from the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe)
sepulchre (from the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe)
tomb (from the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe)
pawn shop (from the poem Evolution by Sherman Alexie)
reservation, like a Native American reservation (from the poem Evolution by Sherman Alexie)
buckskin (from the poem Evolution by Sherman Alexie)
midnight dreary (from the poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe)
chamber door (from the poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe)
Task 3. BUZZ WORDS
Look at the buzz words below. How, do you think, they are relevant to the workshop?
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Edgar Allen Poe
Sherman Alexie
Toni Morrison
Mark Twain
Mississippi River
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Famous American Writers
Teachers’ Notes
These activities have been designed to be used before the workshops as introduction and vocabulary preteaching.
The tasks may be assigned as homework before the workshop if time is limited.
Also, you may use the material as a follow up activity after the students have attended the event.
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