11. American literature

• James Fenimore Cooper, ‘The Lost of the Mohicans’: the story takes place in 1757, during the French and Indian War [the Seven Years’ War], when France and GB battled for control of the North

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and educator:

  • The translation of Dante Alighieri’s ‘The Divine Comedy’

  • ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ – an 1855 epic poem

• Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Bells’, ‘The Black Cat’, ‘Politian’ [the only play]

• Harriet Bucher Stowe, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’

• Mark Twein, ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’, ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’

• Theodore Dreiser, ‘Sister Carrie’, ‘The Financier’, ‘The Titan’

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘This Side of Paradise’, ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, ‘Tender is the Night’, ‘Th Great Gatsby’

• Ernest Hemingway, ‘A Farewell to Arms’, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’

• John Steinbeck, ‘The Grapes’

• Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

• J.D. Salinger, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’

• Jack Kerouac:

  • ‘On the Road’

  • ‘Doctor Sax’

  • ‘Mexico City Blues’

  • ‘The Subterraneans’

• Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Cat’s Cradle’, ‘Slaughterhouse’

• John Updike, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series, ‘The Same Door’, etc.

• John Griffith "Jack" London, ‘White Fang’, ‘The Assassination Bureau, Ltd’

11. British Literature

• Jane Austen:

  • Pride and Prejudice

  • Sense and Sensibility

• William Blake, poet and mystic:

  • The Tyger

• The Bronte sisters:

  • Charlotte – ‘Jane Eyre’

  • Emily – ‘Wuthering Heights’

• Lewis Caroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]:

  • Alice in Wonderland

• Geoffrey Chaucer:

  • Canterbury Tales

• Charles Dickens:

  • David Copperfield

  • Oliver Twist

  • The Posthumous Papers of Pickwick Club

  • The Old Curiosity Shop

  • A Christmas Carol

  • Dombey and Son

  • A Tale of Two Cities

  • Great Expectations

• Nick Hornbey:

  • About a Boy

  • Fever Pitch

  • 31 Songs

  • How to be Good

  • A Long Way Down

  • Slam

  • Juliet Naked

• Rudyard Kipling:

  • The Jungle Book

  • Kim

  • The Light That Failed

  • Poetry

• D.H. Lawrence:

  • Sons and Lovers

• John Milton:

  • Paradise Lost

• William Shakespeare

• George Bernard Shaw:

  • Pygmalion

  • Heartbreak House

• Mary Shelley:

  • Frankenstein

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and humanist

• Sue Townsend:

  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾

  • The Growning Pains of Adrian Mole

  • Queen Camilla

  • Number Ten

• Jonathan Swift:

  • Gulliver’s Travel

• Oscar Wilde:

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

  • The Happy Prince

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

• William Wordsworth:

  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

11. States of the usa

• First Thirteen Colonies

1. Virginia (1607) - Established by the London Company

2. New Jersey (1618) - Originally settled by the Dutch, but seized by the English in 1664.

3. Massachusetts (1620) - Founded as two colonies: Plymouth Colony (1620), settled by the Pilgrims; and Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630), settled by the Puritans. They were united in 1691, and annexed Maine, which had been colonized by the New England Council in the 1620's.

4. New Hampshire (1622) - Originally part of Maine, then a colony from 1629 until annexed by Massachusetts, 1641-1643. Became a separate colony again in 1679.

5. Pennsylvania (1623) - Originally settled by Dutch and Swedes. Came under English control in the 1664 and was granted to William Penn by Charles II in 1681.

6. New York (1624) - Founded as New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company. Seized by the English in 1664 and renamed.

7. Maryland (1634) - Granted to Lord Baltimore.

8. Connecticut (1635) - Founded by settlers from Massachusetts and other colonies. New Haven Colony, founded by settlers from Massachusetts in 1638, annexed to Connecticut in 1662, when the older colony was granted a royal charter.

9. Rhode Island (1636) - Settled by two groups from Massachusetts and united in 1644. Chartered by King Charles II in 1663.

10. Delaware (1638) - Settled by Swedes; seized by the Dutch in 1655 and by the English in 1664. Granted to William Penn in 1682.

11. North Carolina (1653) - Settled by pioneers from other colonies. Carolina was separated from Virginia and granted to a private company in 1663; divided into two colonies in 1711. Made a royal providence in 1729.

12. South Carolina (1670) - Originally part of Carolina Colony. Was separated from North Carolina in 1711, and became a royal providence in 1729.

13. Georgia (1733) - Granted to a private company by George II in 1732 and settled a year later in Savannah.

• The largest state in terms of size is Alaska, but in terms of population is California.

• Oklahoma: Sooner State, Oklahoma City, Norman Music Festival, Row Wow – Native American Cultural event

• Washington: Evergreen State, Olympia, Kurt Cobain, National park, monuments and forests

• Alaska: Last Frontier, Juneau, Iditarod race dog teams, Tongass National Forest

• Florida: Sunshine State, Tallahasee [Jacksonville, St Petersburg], Mark Twain, Cape Canaveral

• Hawaii: Aloha State, Honolulu [Pearl Harbor, Lahaina], Barack Obama, the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters, Ka Lee: southern point

• Texas: Lone Star State [former independent republic, independence of Mexico], Austin [Lublock, Dallas], Sheldon Cooper

• Virginia: Old Dominion, Richmond, Sandra Bullock, 8 American Presidents were born here

• California: Golden State, Sacramento [San Francisco, Los Angeles], Logan Lerman, Death Valley is also the lowest point of dry land in the U.S.A., Yosemite National Park

• South Dakota: Mount Rushmore State, Pierre [Aberdeen, Castle Rock], Mount Rushmore [George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln]

• New York: The Empire State, Albany [New York, Buffalo], Denzel Washington, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building

• The source of the term "Empire State" is not definitively known. It is often attributed to the state's wealth and resources, but this is probably not the case. Two possible stories involve America's first president, George Washington.

The first refers to an April 10, 1785, letter to New York City Mayor James Duane. In it, Washington called New York "the Seat of the Empire". Washington is also said to have used the phrase "Pathway to Empire" once, when referring to the state in conversation with Governor George Clinton in the 1790s; no documentation of this exchange exists however.