Poster Presentation Instructions:

1. Read about the assigned author and the work, and write a 250 response. (For longer works,
read one section/chapter.)
2. Find and read two scholarly articles on the work.
3. Write a one-paragraph summary (150 words) for each article.
4. Write a one-paragraph reflection (150 words) for each article.
5. Present your findings in form of a poster. (Poster size: 1mx1.2m)

List of writers for poster presentation assignment:

Group 1: Civil War
1. John P. Parker, His Promised Land, Ahmad Shah
2. Mary Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, Ahmad Shabir
3. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Omid
4. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Omid
5. Robert E. Lee, Letters to His Family, Anita

Group 2: Regionalism and Realism

1. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Amene
2. Bret Hart, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Jamshid
3. Bessie Head, Chief Sekoto Holds Court, Hafse
4. Willa Cather, The Sculptor’s Funeral, Hekmatullah
5. Paul Laurence Dunber, Douglass, We Wear the Mask, Rahela
6. Edgar Lee Masters, Lucinda Matlock, Fiddler Jones, Roma
7. Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy, Zobair

Group 3: Beginning of Modern Age

1. T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Setayesh
2. Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar, Another Weeping Woman, Seda
3. Kathrine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Saeida
4. Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica, Somaye
5. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dirge Without Music, Recuerdo, Seyed Khalil
6. Marianee Moore, Poetry, Seyed Mohammad Jawad

Group 4: Harlem Renaissance

1. Carl Sandburg, Chicago, The Windy City, Seyed Noorollah
2. Dorothy Parker, Soldiers of the Republic, Sina
3. James Weldon Johnson, My City, An Explanation, Shokoofe
4. Claude McKay, If We Must Die, The Tropics in New York, Sediqa
5. Helene Johnson, Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem, Aqela
6. Jean Toomer, Storm Ending, November Cotton Flower, Abul Hamid

Group 5. Midcentury Voices

1. E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner, Abdul Wase
2. Robert Lowell, Father’s Bedroom, Child’s Song, Ezatullah
3. Richard Wright, Black Boy, Farzane
4. Gwendolyn Brooks, The Explorer, The Bean Eaters, Fereshte
5. Ralph Ellison, February, Invisible Man, Farhad
6. Tomas Rivera, The Portrait, Fahima
7. Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Aging, Gita
8. Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes, A Barred Owl, Mohammad Edris
9. Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel, Mohammad Bagher
10. Alice Walker, Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mohammad Ziaolhaq

Group 6: Toward 21st Century

1. Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior, Mohammad Osman
2. Scott Momady, The Way to Rainy Mountain, Mohammad Ghasem
3. Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried, Ambush, Mohammad Naser
4. Aurora Levins Morales, Kitchens, Maryam
5. Cathy Song, Picture Bride, Moslem
6. Anne Sexton, Riding the Elevator into the Sky, Manije
7. Donald Barthelme, Game, Maysam
8. Sylvia Plath, Mirror, Daddy, Mir Ahmad Soheil
9. William Stafford, Travelling Through the dark, After Plotinus, Mine
10. Robert Hayden, Fredrick Douglass, Those Winter Sundays, Nadia
11. Toni Morrison, Beloved, Narges
12. Barbara Kingsolver, Naming Myself, Poniendome un Nombre, Nilam
13. Rita Dove, Ars Poetica, Geometry, Hedayatollah
14. Sandra Maria Esteves, Weaver, Homa