Literature Selections

MODULE 1 The Generall Historie, John Smith “Chief Powhatan’s Address to John Smith” Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards Journey to the Land of Eden, William Byrd II The Trial of Martha Carrier, Cotton Mather

MODULE 2 Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe

MODULE 3 The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln What the Black Man Wants, Frederick Douglass

MODULE 4 “The Bells,” Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Walt Whitman “O Captain! My Captain!” Walt Whitman “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman “I like to see it lap the Miles,” Emily Dickinson “Because I could not stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson “The Soul selects her own Society,” Emily Dickinson “Cavalry Crossing a Ford,” Walt Whitman “To One in Paradise,” Edgar Allan Poe “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost “We Wear the Mask,” Paul Laurence Dunbar

MODULE 5 "Ain't I a Woman?" Sojourner Truth The Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill The Awakening, Kate Chopin “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman “A Pair of Silk Stockings” Kate Chopin Jane Addams, Chapter IV: Household Adjustment “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” Langston Hughes “Desiree’s Baby” Kate Chopin (excerpt) The Constitutional Rights of Women, a speech by Harriet Beecher Hooker

MODULE 6 War, Sherwood Anderson The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe Molly Bloom Soliloquy, James Joyce Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson Bernice Bobs Her Hair, F. Scott Fitzgerald Three Soldiers, John dos Passos Rapunzel, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm The Three Little Pigs Cinderella

MODULE 7 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

MODULE 8 “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

MODULE 9 The Call of the Wild, Jack London

MODULE 10 “Casey at the Bat,” Ernest Thayer “The Village Blacksmith,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Slave’s Dream,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Haunted Oak,” Paul Laurence Dunbar “The Old Apple Tree,” Paul Laurence Dunbar “The Ballad of the Harp Weaver,” Edna St. Vincent Millay “Exiled,” Edna St. Vincent Millay “Lament,” Edna St. Vincent Millay “The Death of the Hired Man,” Robert Frost “The Fear,” Robert Frost “The Wood-Pile,” Robert Frost “The Runaway,” Robert Frost “Learning to Read,” Frances E. W. Harper “The Aged Stranger,” Bret Harte “My Lost Youth,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

MODULE 11 “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allan Poe “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” Herman Melville “Earth's Holocaust,” Nathaniel Hawthorne "Paul's Case”: A Study in Temperament,” Willa Cather “The Mysterious Key and What It Opened,” Louisa May Alcott “Marjorie’s Three Gifts,” Louisa May Alcott

MODULE 12 Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O’Neill