Readings and Authors: 1st Semester 2012
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie
Historical background: “Between Heaven and Hell” & The Puritan Tradition (134-136)
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” poem by Anne Bradstreet (139)
“Upon the Burning of Our House” poem by Anne Bradstreet (140)
About the Writers in the Time of Revolution-“The Right to Be Free” (256-258)
“Speech in the Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry (263-266)
“The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson (271-276)
“Declaration of the Rights of Woman” by Olympe de Gouges (277-278)
“Letter to the Rev. Samson Occom” by Phillis Wheatly (283-284)
“Letter to John Adams” by Abigail Adams (285-286)
“What is an American?” by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur (290-291)
excerpts and aphorisms from Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin (292)
“Stride Toward Freedom” essay by Martin Luther King Jr. (301-304)
“Necessary to Protect Ourselves” interview with Malcom X (305-306)
Historical background on Romaticism & Transcendentalism, or “Celebrations of the Self” (340-342)
Excerpts from the essay “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (364-366)
Excerpts from the essay “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (370-377)
Historical background about the later Romatics or “The Dark Side of Individualism” (446-448)
Author Study: Edgar Allan Poe (450-453)
“The Raven” poem by Edgar Allan Poe (467-470)
“The Oval Portrait” short story by Edgar Allan Poe
“I Have a Dream” speech by MLK
“Speech at Stanford Graduation” by Steve Jobs
“Why I Want a Wife” essay by Judy Brady
“Annabel Lee” porm by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn satirical novel by Mark Twain
The Narrative of the Life of FD, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (581-589)
“Letter to Sarah Ballou” by Sullivan Ballou (590)
“A Mystery of Heroism” short story by Stephen Crane (595-601)
“Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln (606)
excerpts from her autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (610-615)
“Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall (619)
“The Yellow Walllpaper” on (765) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The Story of an Hour” on 783 & “A Pair of Silk Stockings” online by Kate Chopin
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/
Crash, a film by Paul Haggis
Any of the works mentioned in the AP essay prompts (see me if you need titles and authors)
Any of the YouTube videos watched in class (see the class mid-term submission form on previous HW
post)
*Since you need to reference authors/speakers and titles and since you need to use quotes, you will need
to document them properly in your essay. Titles of books, plays, and films should be underlined or
italicized. Titles of poems, essays, short stories, etc. should be put in quotation marks.
SECOND SEMESTER
“Lucinda Matlock” by Edgar Lee Masters (poem)
http://www.bartleby.com/104/41.html
The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/
Lit book selections from Harlem Renaissance Writers, including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude
McKay, Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston essay, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni
Morrison
“The Ethics of Living Jim Crow-An Autobiographical Sketch” by Richard Wright
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/white/anthology/wright.html
“Notes of a Native Son” Essay by James Baldwin
http://english.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/baldwin-native-son.original.pdf
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7086554/Sonnys-Blues-by-James-Baldwin
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
“A Clean Well-lighted Place” by Ernest Hemmingway
http://www.url-der.org/a_clean_well_lighted_place.pdf
“There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
http://www.gs.cidsnet.de/englisch-online/originals/soft_rains.htm
“The Lake” by Ray Bradbury
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46433958/The-Lake-by-Ray-Bradbury
"Miriam" by Truman Capote.
http://neptune.esc.k12.in.us/socratic/resources/Miriam.html
“The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck
http://www.nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/4/steinbeck/chrysanthemums.html
“Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-2005/pdf/oates.pdf
“A Small Good Thing” by Raymond Carver 1983
http://www.scriptorpress.com/burningmanbooks/46_2006_carver.pdf
“Ambush” by Tim O’Brien
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
“Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
http://forevafound.tripod.com/eleven.pdf
College Board Website for the AP Lang/Comp Exam, including sample essay questions and scored
responses.
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2001.h
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State Standards for California- see page 66 and on, under “Grade Eleven and Twelve.”
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/elacontentstnds.pdf