Text books:
The Language of Literature: American Literature.
Ed. Arthur N. Applebee, et al. Boston:
McDougal Littell, 2006.
American Short Stories: 1920 to the Present. Ed.
Julie A. Schumacher, et al. Logan: Perfection
Learning Corporation, 2003.
Selections from texts, as well as novels,
plays and other resources
which will be used during the year:
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
Common Sense and American Crisis by Thomas
Paine
“Speech in VA Convention” by Patrick Henry
Native American speeches –
www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank
Immigration editorials
“On the Emigration to America” by Philip Freneau
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” by
Phyllis Wheatley
“America and I” by Yezierska
“Mexicans Begin Jogging” by Soto
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan
“What is an American” by Crevecoeur
“Straw into Gold the Metamorphosis of the
Everyday” by Cisneros
“In the American Society” by Gish Jen
“Don’t Call Me a Hot Tamale” by Judith Coffer Ortiz
The Jungle by Sinclair
“Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Fable” by Emerson
“Civil Disobedience” and excerpts from Walden by
Thoreau
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” By
Whitman
“The Soul Selects Her Own Society” by Dickinson
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Dickinson
“Tell the Truth but Tell it Slant” by Dickinson
“Richard Cory” Robinson
“Miniver Cheevey” by Robinson
“Mending Wall” by Frost
“The Road Not Taken” by Frost
“Think as I Think” by Crane
“The Mortgaged Heart” by McCullers
“Men are from Mars Women are from Venus” by
Gray
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
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“The Gettysburg Address” by Lincoln
“War is not Kind” by Crane
“Beat! Beat! Drums!” by Whitman
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Bierce
“In Another Country” by Hemingway
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Jarrell
“Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” by Steinbeck
“At the Justice Department, November 15, 1969” by
Levertov
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
Things They Carried by O’Brien,
Hiroshima by Hersey, or Red Badge of Courage by
Crane
Songs, artwork and editorials related to war
“Ambush” by O’Brien
“Camouflaging the Chimera” by Kommunyakaa
“In Response to Executive Order 9066” by Okita
“Letter from Paradise…” by Didion
“Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” by
O’Brien
“There is No Unmarked Woman” by Tannen
“Being a Man” by Theroux
“About Men” by Ehrlich
“Separating” by Updike
“Teenage Wasteland” by Tyler
“Wandering” by Wilson
“Mirror” by Plath
“Self in 1958” by Sexton
“The Ending of Something” by Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Williams
Death of a Salesman by Miller
The Bell Jar by Plath
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman
“Ironing Their Clothes” by Alvarez
“I Stand Here Ironing” by Olsen
“The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Wright
“Barbie Doll” by Piercy
Look at various TV shows that show family
dynamics over the years