Unit 1
Genres of Literature

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Sonnet XXX
The Magic Barrel
from "The Crucible"
from Blues People
Study Sheet for Unit 1
Video--"The Crucible"

from the Iroquois Constitution
Song of Sky Loom
from Of Plymouth Plantation
from The New England Primer
To My Dear and Loving Husband
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
A General History of Virginia
 
 

from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Speech in the Virginia Convention
To S. M., a Young African Painter on Seeing His Works
Declaration of Independence
Letter to John Adams, May 7, 1776

Rappaccini's Daughter
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Chambered Nautilus
The Village Blacksmith
Telling the Bees
Concord Hymn
This is my letter to the World
The Soul selects her own Society--
Becasuse I could not stop for Death--
I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--
There's a certain Slant of light
Video--Moby Dick

Unit 6
Slavery and the Civil War

from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The Gettysburg Address
An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge
Video--American Legends

The Outcasts of Poker Flats
The Story of an Hour
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
I Will Fight No More Forever
We Wear the Mask
Frontier Word Search
Video--Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

Units 8 and 9
Modern Poetry and Fiction

Mr. Flood's Party
Mending Wall
Home Burial
The Snow Man
This Is Just to Say
The Red Wheelbarrow
In a Station of the Metro
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
anyone lived in a pretty how town
A Wagner Matinee
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place