STRIVE TOWARD FREEDOM
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote it describes
The philosophy behind the successful boycott
NECESSARY TO PROTECT OURSELVES
By: Malcom X’s
Malcom X’s interview tells how we
Should have the right to defend ourselves
A WORN PATH
By: Eudora Welty
Phoenix Jackson walks long
Distances to town to get
Medicine for her boy
AMBUSH
By: Tim O’Brien
His daughter asks if he killed
Someone, he tells her no, then
The story flashes back to him
When he killed someone
WHY SOLDIERS WON’T TALK
By: John Steinbeck
Soldiers after war aren’t
“normal” because of events
In war
AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
By: Ambrose Bierce
The guy actually dies, but
His mind makes him seem
Like he didn’t
A ROSE FOR EMILY
By: William Faulkner
Miss Emily Grierson, a creepy lady in town
Once dead people find a mans corpse in attic
Behind locked door, in a bed…..
THE STORY OF AN HOUR
By: Kate Chopin
Mrs. Mallard’s husband dies, she
Is happy but then finds out he is
Alive, then she dies of a heart attack
Because she was “morning his death”
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A lady goes crazy in a yellow
Wallpapered room
ADAM
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mr. Sousa’s wife had a baby
Named Peter he is very happy
Cause its his 1 st child and
They thought it would never
Be able to happen
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER
By: Washington Irving
Tom Walker takes money
From devil bad consequences
THE TELL TALE HEART
By: Edgar Alan Poe
Guy goes crazy and kills an
Old man because he had a
Weird eye and almost gets
Away with it then he hears
The heart beat and he tells
The cops
THE RAVEN
By: Edgar Alan Poe
A poem about a raven taping
On a guys chamber door
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
By: Edgar Alan Poe
Impossible to read/understand
Guy comes to house. A
Friend (owner of house)
Burries twin in basement,
She gets out kills him guy
Leaves house closes
In on itself
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-conformity……….. Good luck
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature…………..
By: Henry David Thoreau
Dude lived in forest with nothing from the outside world…..pay attention
By: Cynthia G. La Ferle
Tries to do what walden did but can’t live without laptop
By: Henry David Thoreau
Listen to Dr. Shubert
By: Gandhi
Dr. Shubert teaches this very well
THE CRUCIBLE
THE SCARLET LETTER
THE ADVENTURES OF
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
SINNERS IN THE HANDS
OF AN ANGRY GOD
By: Jonathan Edwards
Priest speech
SPEECH IN THE
VIRGINIA CONVENTION
By: Patrick Henry
Give me liberty or give me death
DECLARATION OF
INDEPENENCE
By: Thomas Jefferson
You should know. This states why we are free
9/11
By: George W. Bush
To calm America