AR Quick-Point List - Poem, Short Stories and Plays Title Let America Be America Again American society and its dreams of social justice. Author Langston Hughes Genre Link Poem http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/let-america-beamerica-again The Raven One bleak December night at midnight, a raven with fiery eyes visits a melancholy scholar, who struggles to understand the meaning of the word his winged visitor repeats and descends by stages into madness. Edgar Allan Poe Poem Robert Frost Poem When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer In his sun-, moon-, and starfilled bedroom, a young, spaceobsessed boy dons a tie in preparation for hearing a "learn'd astronomer" speak at a local museum. Walt Whitman Poem Paul Revere’s Ride Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming. Edgar Allan Poe Poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem Eudora Welty Short Story Saki Short Story The Storyteller A mischievous bachelor beguiles three children with a story about a good girl who comes to a horrible end. 0.5 108135 0.5 72173 0.5 83490 0.5 20403 0.5 13973 0.5 8650 0.5 8645 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174747 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174151 http://poetry.eserver.org/paul-revere.html A Worn Path An elderly black woman who lives out in the country makes the long and arduous journey into town, as she has done many times in the past. 102367 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173524 Annabel Lee A dream poem of innocent love between two children with illustrations that set the scene in the 1930s on the Gaspe Peninsula of the artist's native Quebec. Quiz Number http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178713 Birches A well-known poem about birch trees and the pleasures of climbing them. Point Value 0.5 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/ew_path.html http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/Storyteller.html AR Quick-Point List - Poem, Short Stories and Plays The Gift of the Magi A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents. O. Henry Short Story The Necklace After devoting their energies and income for ten years to replacing a borrowed diamond necklace that they have lost, a woman and her husband learn the irony of their efforts. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County A man who loves to place bets acquires a remarkable frog, which he claims can out jump any other frog in the county. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty A henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and other dashing figures. Thank You, Ma’m A teenager tries to steal the purse of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and is rebuked in a surprising fashion. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness. Guy de Maupassant Mark Twain Short Story Short Story https://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html http://www.eastoftheweb.com/shortstories/UBooks/Neck.shtml 0.5 7913 0.5 100330 0.5 8604 0.5 7939 0.5 8647 0.5 8636 0.5 7908 0.5 7904 http://www.sjsu.edu/people/d.mesher/courses/68b/s1/Twain _Harte_Bierce_Garland.pdf James Thurber Short Story http://www.fraumuenster.ch/wpcontent/uploads/2013/09/The-Secret-Life-of-Walter-Mitty.pdf Langston Hughes Short Story http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/english%20department%20lvil lage/rt/Short%20Stories/Thank%20You,%20Ma'am.pdf Ursula Le Guin Short Story http://engl210deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf Katherine Mansfield Short Story http://www.lamaquinadeltiempo.com/mansfield/04dollh.htm Edgar Allan Poe Short Story The Doll’s House Isobel invites all the girls in her class to see her new dollhouse except Lill and Else, the poor daughters of the local washerwoman. The Cask of Amontillado After enduring many injuries of the noble Fortunato, Montresor executes the perfect revenge. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/cask.html AR Quick-Point List - Poem, Short Stories and Plays The Tell-Tale Heart The murder of an old man is revealed by the continuing beating of his heart. The Masque of the Red Death Prince Prospero and a thousand of his followers shut themselves away in a vast abbey to avoid the dreaded Red Death. The Black Cat Poe's tale provides a ghastly journey through the subconscious of a murderer. The Pit and Pendulum Judged guilty by the Inquisition, a condemned man is slowly tortured. The Fall of the House of Usher A visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse. By the Waters of Babylon After the Great Burning when fire fell out of the sky, a young priest explores the forbidden Place of the Gods and discovers what kind of beings lived there before their cities were destroyed. Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Edgar Allan Poe Short Story http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/masque.html Edgar Allan Poe Short Story http://poestories.com/read/blackcat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/thepit.html Edgar Allan Poe Short Story This is a story of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a childlike woman in her sixties, with enormous love and friendship between them. The Lottery The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the “winner” of the drawing. Short Story http://www.tkinter.smig.net/outings/rosemountghosts/babyl on.htm Truman Capote Short Story https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=Z2Fwc HMuZ2pwcy5vcmd8cGhpbGxpcHNjfGd4OjczODJlMTc5YjIxMm ZmMjY Shirley Jackson Short Story https://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/20 10/09/jackson_lottery.pdf A Story Without End While on his way to propose to the girl of his choice, a young man finds himself without an essential piece of clothing at a crucial moment. Mark Twain Short Story 7946 0.5 8632 1.0 7902 1.0 7934 2.0 80054 1.0 8603 1.0 44937 1.0 7921 1.0 7944 http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/usherf.htm Stephen Vincent Benet A Christmas Memory 0.5 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/telltale.html http://www.verbanet.com.ar/lit03b.html AR Quick-Point List - Poem, Short Stories and Plays The Most Dangerous Game On his way to hunt jaguars in the Brazilian jungle, a professional hunter is marooned on a remote island inhabited by a fellow hunter who pursues unusual game. Richard Connell Short Story Bret Harte Short Story Katherine Mansfield Short Story Stephen Crane Short Story The Garden Party Relates Katherine Mansfield's classic short story about a garden party which continues uninterrupted by a neighborhood death. The Open Boat After a shipwreck, four men struggle to survive in a tiny rowboat on the vast ocean. Edgar Allan Poe Short Story http://www.eastoftheweb.com/shortstories/UBooks/GardPart.shtml The Glass Menagerie This play is a tender, despairing portrait of two women, one lost in the past, the other in herself. A Streetcar Named Desire This Pulitzer Prize-winning play shows a woman's descent into Play http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html Tennessee Williams Play http://www.phoenixunion.org/cms/lib6/AZ01001825/Centricit y/Domain/3181/the_glass_menagerie.pdf Play 1.0 8618 2.0 7930 3.0 8621 2.0 43275 3.0 5982 4.0 12798 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/gold_bug.html Sophocles Tennessee Williams 7932 http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/open.htm Antigone This translation by Richard Emil, concerns that part of the Oedipus story that occurs after Eteocles and Polyneices have killed each other over the succession to the throne of Thebes. Antigone's uncle Kreon succeeds to the throne. 1.0 http://www.bartleby.com/310/4/2.html The Gold Bug The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure. 8634 http://www.eastoftheweb.com/shortstories/UBooks/Neck.shtml The Outcasts of Poker Flat Upon waking from their overnight camp in the mountains, four exiles from Poker Flat and a young couple traveling to the town face a snowstorm with limited provisions. 1.0 http://www.metropolitancollege.com/Streetcar.pdf AR Quick-Point List - Poem, Short Stories and Plays oblivion following her inability to deal with desire and death. The Crucible This work dramatizes the events of the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Salem and the furor caused by witchcraft accusations. Romeo and Juliet This a tragic play where two star-crossed teenagers take their lives for the name of love. Arthur Miller Play William Shakespeare Play William Shakespeare Play 53634 5.0 53875 6.0 5987 http://gnauss.hrsbteachers.ednet.ns.ca/documents/cruciblefull-text http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/full.html Julius Caesar In Shakespeare's tale of political conflict and intrigue set in ancient Rome, Brutus and others conspire to assassinate Julius Caesar. 5.0 http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html