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.
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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.
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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
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/ew_path.html
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/Storyteller.html
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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
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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
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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
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http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/usherf.htm
Stephen
Vincent
Benet
A Christmas Memory
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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
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/gold_bug.html
Sophocles
Tennessee
Williams
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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.
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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.
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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.
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http://www.metropolitancollege.com/Streetcar.pdf
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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
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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.
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