STUDY GUIDE
Units
The American Dream
The Great Gatsby
“City Upon a Hill”
Ben Franklin’s Autobiography
“Death of a Salesman”
War
The Things They Carried (Vietnam)
Walt Whitman poetry (Civil War)
“Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” (WWII)
“Adam” (immigrant experience, post WWII)
War poetry (various)
War music (various)
Early American Writing
“The General History of Virginia”
“Of Plymouth Plantation”
Puritan poetry (Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor)
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Persuasive Writing
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Barack Obama speech on Healthcare
Viewing Advertisements
MLK and Malcolm X: views on civil disobedience
“Speech to the Virginia Convention”
The Minority
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Harlem Renaissance poetry
Women’s poetry
“Twelve Angry Men”
Writing
SAT essay structure
Central idea, thesis statement
Broad introduction & conclusion
Relating evidence back to central idea