List of works read in English 11, 2012-13. Final Exam Prep.
The number in parenthesis refers to the page number where the text can be found in
the Holt Elements of Literature textbook (not applicable to all texts). Remember
that you can access these texts online through Blackboard.
1. Anne Bradstreet
- “Some Verses Upon The Burning of Our House”
(28)
2. Langston Hughes
- “Salvation”
3. Mary Rowlandson
– “The Narrative of the Captivity . . .” (36)
4. Jonathan Edwards
– “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (45)
5. Edward Taylor
– “Huswifery” (128)
6. Dave Barry
- “Lost in the Kitchen”
7. Benjamin Franklin
– from The Autobiography (68)
- from “Poor Richard’s Almanac” (75)
8. Patrick Henry
- “Speech to the Virginia Convention” (81)
9. William Wadsworth Longfellow - “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” (195)
- “The Cross of Snow”
10. William Cullen Bryant
- “Thanatopsis” (190)
11. Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Fall of the House of Usher” (311)
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Minister’s Black Veil” (262)
13. Henry David Thoreau
15. Ambrose Bierce
- “Resistance to Civil Government” (234)
- excerpts from Walden (215)
- “Nature” (205)
- “Self-Reliance” (208)
- “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (489)
16. Stephen Crane
- “A Mystery of Heroism” (500)
17. Jack London
- “To Build a Fire” (546)
18. Langston Hughes
- “I, Too, Sing America”
- “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (833)
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14. Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Tennessee Williams
- A Streetcar Named Desire
20. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Gatsby
21. T.S. Eliot
- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (657)
22. Anne Hull
- “In Rust Belt, a Teenagers Climb from Poverty”
23. James Baldwin
- “A Stranger in the Village”
24. Jhumpa Lahiri
- “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” (1029)
25. Jon Krakauer
- Into The Wild