Voices of American Literature
Encounters and Foundations to 1800
Huron Traditional “The Sky Tree”
Teton Sioux Traditional “The Earth Only”
Nez Perce Traditional “Coyote Finished his Work”
Mary Rowlandson from A Narrative of the Captivity
Anne Bradstreet “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House” and
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Ben Franklin from The Autobiography
Patrick Henry “Speech to the Virginia Convention”
Major Works: The Scarlet Letter; The Crucible
Resources for Collection 1:
Native American Powerpoint
Puritan powerpoint (11_puritans.ppt)
SAT Essay writing powerpoint
Patrick Henry powerpoint (Patrick Henry.pptx)
Resources for The Crucible:
Salem Witchcraft Trials Web
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
Arthur Miller Power Point-Final.pptx
The Crucible Glossary (vocab.pdf)
Class Discussion (4 Corners Response Questions.docx)
Research Project-Arnold.docx
For Act 1: The Crucible Character List and guided questions.docx
Extra Credit Project ideas.doc
American Romanticism 1800-1860
Power Point on Dark Romantics
Powerpoint on Transcendentalism
Washington Irving “The Devil and Tom Walker”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”
Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature and Self Reliance
Henry David Thoreau from Walden and Resistance to Government
Nathaniel Hawthorne “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” (not in text) and
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
Edgar Allen Poe “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Raven”
Major Work: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
American Masters
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman “I Hear America Singing”
from “Song of Myself”
“I celebrate myself and sing myse
“A child said what is the grass
“I understand the large hearts of heroes”
“The spotted hawk swoops by”
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson “The Soul selects her own Society
“This is my letter to the world”
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”
“Success is counted sweetest”
“Because I could not stop for Death”
“Much Madness is divinest Sense”
“I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”
“My life closed twice before its close”
“I sing…because I am afraid”
The Rise of Realism: The Civil War to 1914
Frederick Douglass from Narrative of the Life and Frederick Douglass
Harriet A. Jacobs from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Chief Joseph “I Will Fight No More Forever”
Sojourner Truth “ Ain’t I a Woman?”
Mark Twain “The Lowest Animal”
Jack London “To Build a Fire”
Edwin Arlington Robinson “Richard Cory”
Major Work: Huck Finn
Powerpoint on The Rise of Realism
The Moderns 1914-1939
T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Marianne Moore “Poetry”
Archibald MacLeish “Ars Poetica”
EE Cummings “what if much of a which of a wind”
“somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond”
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”
Carl Sandburg “Chicago”
Robert Frost
"Design"
“Nothing Gold Can Stay"
“Birches”
“Mending Wall”
“Death of the Hired Man”
“I must have the pulse beat of rhythm”
Flannery O’Connor “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
Countee Cullen “Tableau”
“Incident”
Langston Hughes “The Weary Blues”
“Harlem”; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road
Major Work: The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Powerpoint on The Moderns
The Contemporary Period: 1939-Present
Elie Wiesel from Night
Art Spiegelman from Maus
John Hersey “A Noiseless Flash” from Hiroshima
Tim O’Brien “Speaking of Courage”
Donald Barthelme “Game”
Raymond Carver “Everything Stuck to Him”
Julia Alvarez “Daughter of Invention”
Amy Tan “Rules of the Game” from Joy Luck Club
Richard Wright from Black Boy
Elizabeth Bishop “The Fish”
“One Art”
Sylvia Plath “The Mirror”
Billy Collins “Man Listening to Disc
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