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
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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
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