Odyssey High School English III LIST OF READING SELECTIONS “A Book” by Emily Dickinson FDR Fireside Chat #7 A Brief History of New Orleans Jazz “The First Seven Years” by Bernard Malamud “A Dog’s Tale” by Mark Twain “The Four Fists” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Fog” by Carl Sandburg “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner “Ain’t I A Woman?” by Sojourner Truth “Any Human to Another” by Countee Cullen “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver “Beat! Beat! Drums!” by Walt Whitman “Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson “The Bonus Army” by Eyewitness to History “The Bonus Army Invades Washington, D.C., 1932” by Eyewitness to History Bill Clinton Campaign Speech by Bill Clinton “CETI” from The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas “Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck Compensation from before WWI to the Great Depression by Robert Van Giezen and Albert E. Schwenk “The Crisis # 1” by Thomas Paine Functional Text: Obtaining a Passport Functional Text: Manufacturing a 14AP4 Picture Tube “General Washington’s reply” by George Washington The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester “Grass” by Carl Sandburg “Love Atlanta Style” from Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid by John Rosengren “The Gray Man” by Sarah Orne Jewett “How Fisher Went to Skyland: The Origin of the Big Dipper” by Joseph Bruchac “In a Station of a Metro” by Ezra Pound “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway “Journey” by Joyce Carol Oates La Relacion by Cabeza de Vaca Letter from Revolutionary Soldier Lewis & Clark Journal (excerpt) “Litany” by Billy Collins “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving “The Little Regiment” by Stephen Crane Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout by Benjamin Franklin Mayflower Compact “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe The Diaries of George Washington by George Washington “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Diaries of the Seventeenth Century My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass “The Fastest-Growing Jobs in the U.S.” by Hannah Clark “Mrs. Perez” by Oscar Casares continued Odyssey High School English III L I S T O F R E A D I N G S E L E C T I O N S continued “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes “Notes of a Translator’s Son” by Joseph Bruchac “Of Science and Indian Myths” by Joseph Bruchac “old age sticks” by E.E. Cummings “Outcast” by Claude McKay “Outcast of Poker Flat” by Bret Hart Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara Research Strategies: Finding Your Way through the Information Fog by William Badke “The River Merchant’s Wife” by Ezra Pound “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson “Son” by John Updike “The Trip Back” by Robert Olen Butler “To His Excellency George Washington” by Phillis Wheatley “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet “Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet “Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau “Walden” by E.B. White War Song of 1776 “Three Men Who Taught Me to Lead” from Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca CompassLearning, Inc. • 203 Colorado Street, Austin, TX 78701 1-800-232-9556 www.compasslearning.com © 2009 CompassLearning, Inc. All rights reserved. CompassLearning and Design and CompassLearning Odyssey and Design are registered trademarks of CompassLearning, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. F-LITENG3-0509