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Great American Authors: 1650 to Present

Lives and works of 60 of America's greatest writers

Grade Levels:: 7-12
Length:: 30 minutes
Taping Rights:: School year
Program Schedule:: See Below

No country has produced a more impressive group of writers in a shorter period of time than America. Great American Authors showcases this rich literary tradition of American storytelling. Host Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) traces the incredible journey of finding the nation’s voice, beginning with the first colonists in the 17th century to a small cadre of brilliant, 19th-century New England writers who defined the unique American experience and soul, to the whole country speaking out in the 20th century against war, poverty, racism, and alienation. Featuring such greats as Poe, Dickinson, Alcott, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, and Morrison, this series presents the lives and literary output of over 60 of America’s most read authors.

Program of Studies:
Reading:Interpreting Text, Reflecting and Responding to Text, Demonstrating a Critical Stance

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2011/12 Program Schedule

101. 1650-1845: Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather, Phillis Wheatley, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe. 28 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 1:00 am on KETKY
102. 1846-1855: Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 30 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 1:30 am on KETKY
103. 1856-1906: Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Upton Sinclair. 27 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 2:00 am on KETKY
104. 1907-1925: William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Edith Wharton, e.e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Henry Miller, Robert Frost, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 29 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 2:30 am on KETKY
105. 1926-1939: Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, Eugene O'Neill, and John Steinbeck. 30 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 3:00 am on KETKY
106. 1940-1949: Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller. 30 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 3:30 am on KETKY
107. 1950-1957: Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, J.D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, and Dr. Suess. 29 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 4:00 am on KETKY
108. 1958-Present: Lorraine Hansberry, Joseph Heller, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy. 29 minutes; Friday, June 29 at 4:30 am on KETKY

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Kentucky Academic Expectations

This program relates to the following Kentucky Academic Expectations.

1.2	Reading
1.3	Observing
1.4	Listening

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