Traditional American' Authors

  Read Beloved: ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3341-6 Watch the Accomplishments of Toni Morrison at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEm90WU7Iog Watch the Toni Morrison on Her Motivation for Writing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Zgu2hrs2k&feature=related Watch Should Schools Teach Books Written By More "Traditional American" Authors? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti2ejAWm-jM Follow the links and watch the following video: "Should Schools Teach Books Written By More 'Traditional American' Authors?" Then review this course’s description: “American Literature II offers an introduction to the major works of the major writers of the United States from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century. The emphasis is on the literary movement called Realism and the societal factors that contributed to that movement--such as the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period, increased industrialization, and the influences of Freud and Darwin.” After viewing the video (to which you may have a strong positive or negative reaction), as well as this course’s description, how would you approach creating a list of authors and works to be assigned in a course such as this one? Who might you include or exclude? Why?