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In this unit, students will consider the writing of twentieth and twenty-first century writers in

America including Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Miller, Hurston, Capote, and other major authors.

Primary Course Materials:

Major Texts:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright

Drama:

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Poetry:

“Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

“To a Waterfowl” and “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant

“There’s a certain slant of light” and “Hope is a thing with feathers” and

“I heard a fly buzz—when I died” by Emily Dickinson

from “Song of Myself” and “Beat! Beat! Drums” and “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt

Whitman

“I, Too Sing, America” and selected poems from the Dreams series by Langston Hughes

Non-Fiction:

from The Declaration of Independence

“I Have a Dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards

Speech at the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry

from The Crisis, Number 1 by Thomas Paine

from “Self-Reliance” and from “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

from “Civil Disobedience” and from “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau

from Autobiography and “Poor Richard’s Almanac” by Benjamin Franklin

“Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln

Short Stories:

“Quitters, Inc.” by Stephen King

“Rip Van Winkle” and “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving

“The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

“The Life You Save May be Your Own” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery

O’Connor

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