• Launchpad: Crane's "The Open Boat"

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    Writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville meet

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    August 5, 1850
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    Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
    Lesson 3: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
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    Launchpad: "Bartleby, the Scrivener," by Herman Melville
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    Hawthorne in Salem: Hawthorne and Melville

    First detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," published by Edgar Allen Poe

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    April 20, 1841
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    Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator

    Ambrose Bierce born

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    June 24, 1842
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    Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator

  • Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers

    Engraving by Robert Anderson based on 1848 daguerreotype.

    We are naturally curious about the lives (and deaths) of authors, especially those, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce, who have left us with so many intriguing mysteries. But does biographical knowledge add to our understanding of their works? And if so, how do we distinguish between the accurate detail and the rumor, between truth and slander? In this lesson, students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. They also become careful critics, taking a stand on whether extra-literary materials such as biographies and letters should influence the way readers understand a writer's texts.

  • Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator

    Edgar Allen Poe.

    Help your students consider a variety of narrative stances in Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "Tell Tale Heart," and Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—The "New Woman"

    "Wash Day" satirizes the suffrage movement at the turn-of-the-century.

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wall-paper" was written during this time of great change. This lesson plan, the first part of a two-part lesson, helps to set the historical, social, cultural, and economic context of Gilman's story.

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—Writing Women

    Front page illustration for the original serialized version of The Yellow Wallpaper from the New England Magazine (1892).

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wall-paper" was written during this time of great change. This lesson plan, the second part of a two-part lesson, helps to set the historical, social, cultural, and economic context of Gilman's story.

  • Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction

    Portrait of Rudyard Kipling.

    In this lesson, students will use interactive materials to learn about Rudyard Kipling's life and times, read an illustrated version of "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," and learn how Kipling effectively uses personification by mixing fact and fiction.

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