American Literature - Table of Contents Guide UNIT ONE: Early America (Beginnings–1800) Part
Title Unit Introduction: Overview and Big Ideas I Have Killed the Deer from Of Plymouth Plantation from The Autobiography
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The Sacred Earth and the Power of Storytelling Literary History: Native American Mythology How the World Was Made Cultural Perspective: from The Way to Rainy Mountain The Sky Tree How the Leopard Got His Claws Prayer to the Pacific” from The Iroquois Constitution Vocabulary Workshop: Academic Vocabulary Workshop Life in the New World from La Relación from Of Plymouth Plantation from The Life of Olaudah Equiano from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Grammar Workshop: Sentence Combining Upon the Burning of Our House To My Dear and Loving Husband from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Vocabulary Workshop: Dictionary Usage The Road to Independence from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanack Literary History: The Rhetoric of Revolution Speech to the Second Virginia Convention The Declaration of Independence TIME: How They Chose These Words
Author(s) Anonymous William Bradford Benjamin Franklin
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retold by James Mooney N. Scott Momaday retold by Joseph Bruchac Chinua Achebe and John Iroaganachi Leslie Marmon Silko Dekanawida
Myth Memoir Myth Myth Poem Public Document
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca William Bradford Olaudah Equiano Mary Rowlandson
Memoir Memoir Autobiography Memoir
Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet Jonathan Edwards
Poem Poem Speech
Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography Proverb
Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson Walter Isaacson
Speech Public Document
Vocabulary Workshop: Word Origins: Understanding Political and Historical Terms from The Crisis, No. 1 Thomas Paine To His Excellency, General Washington Phillis Wheatley Letter to John Adams Abigail Adams Grammar Workshop: Commas: Missing Commas with Nonessential Elements Historical Perspective: from John Adams Writing Workshop: Writing a Persuasive Speech from Proposals for Electoral College Reform Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Delivering a Persuasive Speech Independent Reading Assessment from The Whistle
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Public Document Poem Letter
David McCullough
Biography
Becky Cain
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Benjamin Franklin
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American Literature - Table of Contents Guide UNIT TWO: American Romanticism (1800–1860) Part
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Title Unit Introduction: Overview and Big Ideas from Self-Reliance from The Journal from The Fall of the House of Usher Individualism, Optimism, and Nature from Nature from Self-Reliance TIME: The Biology of Joy from Woman in the Nineteenth Century Literary History: The Fireside Poets from Walden from Civil Disobedience On the Eve of Historic Dandi March from Long Walk to Freedom The Dark Side of Romanticism Literary History: The First American Short Stories The Devil and Tom Walker The Raven The Pit and the Pendulum Vocabulary Workshop: Context Clues: Determining the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words The Minister’s Black Veil Grammar Workshop: Sentence Structure: Correcting Dangling Modifiers from Moby Dick Historical Perspective: from In the Heart of the Sea Writing Workshop: Writing a Reflective Essay Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Delivering a Reflective Essay Professional Model: from An American Childhood Independent Reading Assessment
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Edgar Allan Poe
Essay Journal Short Story
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson Michael D. Lemonick Margaret Fuller
Essay Essay Science Article Essay
Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau Mohandes K. Gandhi Nelson Mandela
Memoir Essay Speech Autobiography
Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story Poem Short Story
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short Story
Herman Melville Nathaniel Philbrick
Novel Essay
Annie Dillard
Memoir
American Literature - Table of Contents Guide UNIT THREE: The Civil War Era (1850–1880) Part
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Title Unit Introduction: Overview and Big Ideas from The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro from Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 Cavalry Crossing a Ford The Lightening is a Yellow Fork Resistance to Slavery Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Go Down, Moses Keep Your Hand on the Plow from My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass In Texas Grass Literary History: Slave Narratives and Civil War Memoirs, Letters, and Diaries TIME: Slavery Under Glass And Ain’t I a Woman?
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Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson
Speech Speech Poem Poem
Anonymous
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden Quincy Troupe
Song Song Song Autobiography Poem Poem
Richard Lacayo Sojourner Truth
Speech
Mary Chesnut
Memoir
Robert E. Lee Ambrose Bierce Abraham Lincoln Gary Wills
Letter Short Story Speech Essay
Walt Whitman
Justin Kaplan Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Billy Collins
Poem Poem Poem Poem Memoir Poem Biography Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Essay
Frederick Douglass
Autobiography
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The Civil War: A Nation Divided from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Grammar Workshop: Coherence: Using Transitional Expressions from Letter to His Family An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Gettysburg Address Political Perspective: from Lincoln at Gettysburg A Poetic Revolution I Hear America Singing When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer A Sight in camp in the Daybreak Gray Dim Beat! Beat! Drums! from Specimen Days from Song of Myself Literary Perspective: from Walt Whitman: A Life If you were coming in the Fall My life closed twice before its close The Soul selects her own Society Much Madness is divinest Sense Success is counted sweetest I heard a Fly buzz when I died The Bustle in a House Because I could not stop for Death There’s a Certain Slant of light This is my letter to the World Literary Perspective: from Emily Dickinson: An Introduction Writing Workshop: Historical Research Paper Multimedia Presentation Workshop: Delivering an Multimedia Report on a Historical Investigation Independent Reading Assessment from My Bondage and My Freedom
American Literature - Table of Contents Guide UNIT FOUR: Regionalism and Realism (1880–1910) Part
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Title Unit Introduction: Overview and Big Ideas from O Pioneers! from The Awakening from The Red Badge of Courage Regionalism and Local Color The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Two Views of the River TIME: Life Along the Mississippi Lucinda Matlock Fiddler Jones A Wagner Matinee Grammar Workshop: Commas: Punctuating Appositives I Will Fight No More Forever Realism and Naturalism Literary History: The Two Faces of Urban America April Showers Vocabulary Workshop: Language Resources: Using a Thesaurus Story of an Hour The Darling Richness Douglass We Wear the Mask Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy The Open Boat To Build a Fire Geographic Perspectives: from Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Writing Workshop: Writing a Literary Analysis: Short Story Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Delivering an Oral Response to Literature Independent Reading Assessment from The Jungle from How the Other Half Lives
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Willa Cather Kate Chopin Stephen Crane
Novel Novel Novel
Mark Twain Mark Twain Nancy Gibbs Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters Willa Cather
Short Story Memoir
Chief Joseph
Speech
Edith Wharton
Short Story
Kate Chopin Anton Chekhov Gabriela Mistral Paul Lawrence Dunbar Paul Lawrence Dunbar Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson Stephen Crane Jack London
Short Story Short Story Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Short Story Short Story
Barry Lopez
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Upton Sinclair Jacob Riis
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American Literature - Table of Contents Guide UNIT FIVE: Beginnings of the Modern Age (1910–1930s) Part
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Title Unit Introduction Overview and Big Ideas from I: Six Nonlectures from The Sun Also Rises from The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain Modern Poetry Literary history: Imagist and Symbolist Poetry In a Station of the Metro A Pact The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Red Wheelbarrow This Is Just To Say Vocabulary Workshop: Developing Vocabulary: Defining Compound Words Summer Rain Fireworks Ars Poetica from Letters to a Young Poet Eating Poetry beware: do not read this poem Study of Two Pears The Blue Guitar somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond anyone lived in a pretty how town Chicago Grass Mending Wall Birches Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Acquainted with the Night The Death of the Hired Man Political Perspective: In Praise of Robert Frost Modern Fiction Literary History: The Modern American Short Story In Another Country Grammar Workshop: Sentence Structure: Using Coordinating Conjunctions Winter Dreams The Jilting of Granny Weatherall The Harlem Renaissance My City from Dust Tracks on a Road Vocabulary Workshop: Distinct Meanings: Understanding Homonyms If We Must Die TIME: Stanzas from a Black Epic I, Too The Negro Speaks of Rivers When the Negro Was in Vogue A black man talks of reaping Any Human to Another Writing Workshop: Writing a Literary Analysis: Poetry Professional Model: from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Presenting an Oral Interpretation of a Poem Independent Reading Assessment
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E.E. Cummings Ernest Hemingway Langston Hughes
Speech Novel Essay
Ezra Pound Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams
Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem
Amy Lowell Amy Lowell Archibald MacLeish Rainer Maria Rilke Mark Strand Ishmael Reed Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens E. E. Cummings E. E. Cummings Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg Robert Frost Robert Frost Robert Frost Robert Frost Robert Frost John F. Kennedy
Poem Poem Poem Letter Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Speech
Ernest Hemingway
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Katherine Anne Porter
Short Story Short Story
James Weldon Johnson Zora Neale Hurston
Poem Autobiography
Claude McKay Robert Hughes Langston Hughes Langston Hughes Langston Hughes Arna Bontemps Countee Cullen
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Lawrence Raab
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American Literature - Table of Contents Guide UNIT SIX: From Depression to Cold War (1930s–1960s) Part
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Title Unit Introduction: Overview and Big Ideas from The Grapes of Wrath kitchenette building from A Street in Bronzeville from The Four Freedoms
John Steinbeck Gwendolyn Brooks Franklin D. Roosevelt
Novel Poem Speech
The New Regionalism and the City Breakfast
John Steinbeck
Short Story
Vocabulary Workshop: Word Parts: Understanding Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes A Rose for Emily Address upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature A Worn Path from Black Boy Historical Perspective: You Have Seen Their Faces The Life You Save May Be Your Own
William Faulkner William Faulkner Eudora Welty Richard Wright White Flannery O’Connor
Short Story Speech Short Story Autobiography Photo Essay Short Story
Grammar Workshop: Sentence Structure: Introductory Phrases and Clauses The Second Tree from the Corner To Don at Salaam The Bean Eaters The Magic Barrel The Rockpile
E. B. White Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks Bernard Malamud James Baldwin
Short Story Poem Poem Short Story Short Story
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Randall Jarrell Elie Wiesel Garrett Hongo Art Spiegelman John Hersey Tomas Rivera
Poem Memoir Memoir Graphic Novel Essay Short Story
Arthur Miller
Drama
Eudora Welty
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Margaret Bourke-White
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The United States and the World War Message to Congress Vocabulary Workshop: Word Parts: Understanding Unfamiliar Math and Science Terms The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner from All Rivers Run to the Sea from Kubota from Maus: A Survivor's Tale from Hiroshima The Portrait Literary History: Cultural Rebels: Writers of the Beat Generation The Crucible Literary History: Modern American Drama Writing Workshop: Writing an Autobiographical Narrative Professional Model: from One Writer's Beginnings Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Presenting an Art or Photo Essay Independent Reading Assessment from Dush Changes America
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American Literature - Table of Contents Guide UNIT SEVEN: Into the 21st Century (1960s–Present) Part
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Title Unit Introduction: Overview and Big Ideas from Letter from a Birmingham Jail from Lost from The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
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Martin Luther King, Jr. David Wagoner Judith Ortiz Cofer
Letter Poem Poem
Rita Dove Martin Luther King, Jr. Alice Walker
Profile Memoir Essay
An Era of Protest TIME: The Torchbearer from Stride Toward Freedom Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Vocabulary Workshop: Loaded Words: Recognizing Hyperbole, Propaganda, and Bias from Working: Roberto Acuna, Farm Worker Grammar Workshop: Sentence Structure: Avoiding Run-On Sentences Ambush The Gift in Wartime' from Stay Alive My Son Camouflaging the Chimera The Asians Dying Separation When You Go Away Artistic Perspective: Proposal for the Vietnam Memorial A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Courage
Studs Terkel
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Tim O’Brien Tran Mong Tu Pin Yathay Yusef Komunyakaa W.S. Merwin W.S. Merwin W.S. Merwin Maya Lin Bob Dylan Anne Sexton
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Nature and Technology The Fish Filling Station Root Cellar Sleep in the Mojave Desert Crossing the Water The War Against the Trees Scientific Perspective: Fable of Tomorrow from Silent Spring SQ Snow Daisies Cottonmouth Country
Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop Theodore Roethke Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Stanley Kunitz Rachel Carson Ursula Le Guin Julia Alvarez Louise Gluck Louise Glück
Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Poem Essay Short Story Short Story Poem Poem
Extending and Remaking Traditions from The Woman Warrior Everything Stuck to Him El Olvido (Según las Madres) My Father and the Figtree
Maxine Hong Kingston Raymond Carver Judith Ortiz Cofer Naomi Shahib Nye
Memoir Short Story Poem Poem
Billy Collins Louise Erdrich Sandra Cisneros Toni Morrison
Poem Essay Short Story Essay
Edwidge Danticat Ai Morales
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Jeremy Blachman
Editorial
Annie Dillard William Stafford
Essay Poem
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice” The Names of Women Salvador Late or Early Thoughts on the African-American Novel Vocabulary Workshop: Word Parts: Suffixes That Form Nouns Literary History: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels Nineteen Thirty-Seven The Man With the Saxophone Ending Poem Writing Workshop: Editorial Professional Model: Job Posting: The New York Times Media Literacy Workshop: Campaign Commercials Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Conducting a Debate Independent Reading Assessment from "Transfiguration" Traveling Through the Dark
Public Document Song Poem