List of Selections 11th grade 2016 – 2017

List of Selections 11 th grade
2016 – 2017
1. Native American Literature
a. The Earth on Turtle’s Back from Onondaga Tribe (pdf) *
b. When Grizzlies Walked Upright by Modoc Tribe
(http://www.csun.edu/~sa54649/314/Grizzlies.html)
c. From The Navajo Origin Legend (http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-HtmlLegends/CreationofFirstManandFirstWoman-Navajo.html)
2. Puritanism
a. “Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet (pdf) *
b. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson (pdf)
3. Enlightment
a. Speech to the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry (pdf) *
b. From The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence by
Thomas Jefferson (pdf)
4. Dark Romanticism
a. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (pdf) *
b. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (pdf)
5. Realism
a. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (pdf) *
b. To Build a Fire by Jack London (pdf)
c. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain *
(www.americanliterature.com)
d. The Lowest Animal by Mark Twain (pdf)
e. The Narrative of Frederick Douglass (pdf)
6. Modernism
a. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (pdf) *

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