brookes english project

advertisement

STRIVE TOWARD FREEDOM

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote it describes

The philosophy behind the successful boycott

NECESSARY TO PROTECT OURSELVES

By: Malcom X’s

Malcom X’s interview tells how we

Should have the right to defend ourselves

A WORN PATH

By: Eudora Welty

Phoenix Jackson walks long

Distances to town to get

Medicine for her boy

AMBUSH

By: Tim O’Brien

His daughter asks if he killed

Someone, he tells her no, then

The story flashes back to him

When he killed someone

WHY SOLDIERS WON’T TALK

By: John Steinbeck

Soldiers after war aren’t

“normal” because of events

In war

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

By: Ambrose Bierce

The guy actually dies, but

His mind makes him seem

Like he didn’t

A ROSE FOR EMILY

By: William Faulkner

Miss Emily Grierson, a creepy lady in town

Once dead people find a mans corpse in attic

Behind locked door, in a bed…..

THE STORY OF AN HOUR

By: Kate Chopin

Mrs. Mallard’s husband dies, she

Is happy but then finds out he is

Alive, then she dies of a heart attack

Because she was “morning his death”

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A lady goes crazy in a yellow

Wallpapered room

ADAM

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mr. Sousa’s wife had a baby

Named Peter he is very happy

Cause its his 1 st child and

They thought it would never

Be able to happen

THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER

By: Washington Irving

Tom Walker takes money

From devil bad consequences

THE TELL TALE HEART

By: Edgar Alan Poe

Guy goes crazy and kills an

Old man because he had a

Weird eye and almost gets

Away with it then he hears

The heart beat and he tells

The cops

THE RAVEN

By: Edgar Alan Poe

A poem about a raven taping

On a guys chamber door

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

By: Edgar Alan Poe

Impossible to read/understand

Guy comes to house. A

Friend (owner of house)

Burries twin in basement,

She gets out kills him guy

Leaves house closes

In on itself

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Non-conformity……….. Good luck

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature…………..

By: Henry David Thoreau

Dude lived in forest with nothing from the outside world…..pay attention

By: Cynthia G. La Ferle

Tries to do what walden did but can’t live without laptop

By: Henry David Thoreau

Listen to Dr. Shubert

By: Gandhi

Dr. Shubert teaches this very well

THE CRUCIBLE

THE SCARLET LETTER

THE ADVENTURES OF

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

SINNERS IN THE HANDS

OF AN ANGRY GOD

By: Jonathan Edwards

Priest speech

SPEECH IN THE

VIRGINIA CONVENTION

By: Patrick Henry

Give me liberty or give me death

DECLARATION OF

INDEPENENCE

By: Thomas Jefferson

You should know. This states why we are free

9/11

By: George W. Bush

To calm America

Download