Suggested
Authors for a MacDowell-Based Curriculum in Literature
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| As part of the MacDowell Colony 100th Celebration, the following list
includes several MacDowell colonists who have completed written pieces
that may be suitable in various classroom curriculum.
Please keep in mind that these are only suggestions from a master list
of over 1900 authors. |
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Elementary Grade
Reading Level
Heidi Carla and Karla Cinquanta, Poetry & Pearl
Middle School Reading Level
Susan Cooper, The Grey King
Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer
Lois Lowery, The Giver
Tillie Olsen, Tell me a Riddle and Yononomo
High School Reading Level
Poets
Galway Kinnel
Edward Arlington
Robinson
Stanley Kunitz
W.D. Snodgrass
Novelists
Willa Cather
(1920's)
James Baldwin
(1950's
- 60's), Go Tell it to The Mountain
Rosellen Brown (1980's - 90's),
Civil
Wars
Alice Walker
(1980's
- 90's), The Color Purple
Dramatists
Thorton Wilder,
Our
Town
Essayist
Joan Didion (Winner of the 1996
MacDowell Medal), Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Source: Michael J. Brien, Director
of Marketing, Notre Dame College, Manchester, NH |
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