Writers from the mid-1800’s

Directions
Part 1 – Your assignment is to research the writers below and find out what their most important writings were and what these writings were about. Answers.com or Wikipedia would be a good places to start.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Louisa May Alcott
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Herman Melville
• Laura Ingalls Wilder