English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Red text denotes required reading that is not in classroom literature textbook.
NOTE: Two links are offered for most works in case one of the links fails to work properly.
Unit 1 – Beginnings – 1750 / Colonial Unit
“The Earth on Turtle’s Back” by Onondaga-Northeast Woodlands tribes
MYTH
http://tinyurl.com/lva33gq
or
http://tinyurl.com/lgec78w
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Equiano – Read the last big paragraph of
Chapter II that begins with “The first object which [ . . . ]”
NONFICTION
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15399/15399-h/15399-h.htm#CHAP_II
or
https://archive.org/stream/theinterestingna15399gut/15399.txt
From Journal of the First Voyage to America by Christopher Columbus – Read journal entry dated
Sunday, October 21st, 1492.
NONFICTION
http://tinyurl.com/mjxqj9f
or
http://tinyurl.com/q3hcxdh – Scroll down to Sunday, October 21, 1492
From The General History of Virginia – “What Happened Till the First Supply” by John Smith
NONFICTION
http://tinyurl.com/oekyzje
or
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/10-smi.html
From Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
NONFICTION
• “Of Their Voyage and How They Passed the Sea” – Book I, Chp. IX
http://liternet.bg/publish21/w_bradford/01_09.htm
or
http://tinyurl.com/pvefg9w - Read Chp. IX, p. 58-63
• “The Starving Time” and “Indian Relations”
http://tinyurl.com/pvefg9w - Read p. 77 - 84
• “The First Thanksgiving”
http://tinyurl.com/pvefg9w – Read p. 90
• Chapter Fourteen
http://tinyurl.com/k84cghy
Other – Audio reading: https://archive.org/details/history_plymoutn_settlement_1007_librivox
English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/poem/172962
or
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-dear-and-loving-husband
“Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” by Anne Bradstreet
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172963
or
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/verses-upon-burning-our-house
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
SERMON/SPEECH
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=etas
– Read p. 12-16 (start where it says “Application”)
or
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34632/34632-h/34632-h.htm#Page_78
– Read p. 86-91 (start where it says “Application”)
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English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Unit 2 – A Nation is Born / Revolutionary Unit (1750-1800)
From The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
NONFICTION
Read Chp. IX, “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection” and Chp. X, “Poor Richard’s Almanac…”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm#I
From Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin
NONFICTION
Read twenty of these aphorisms/quotations:
http://www.poorrichards.net/benjamin-franklin
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
NONFICTION
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
or
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
From “The Crisis, Number 1” by Thomas Paine
NONFICTION
Read Number 1:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3741/3741-h/3741-h.htm#link2H_4_0005
or
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis/c-01.htm
“An Hymn to the Evening” by Phillis Wheatley
POETRY
http://tinyurl.com/lw6e3u4
“To His Excellency, General Washington” by Phillis Wheatley
POETRY
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/his-excellency-general-washington
“Speech in the Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry
SPEECH
http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm
or
http://www.patrickhenrycenter.com/Speeches.aspx - Read “Liberty or Death” speech
English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
“Speech in the Virginia Convention” by Benjamin Franklin
SPEECH
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/pop_finalspeech.html
or
http://schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/eiw_this_week/v3n37_sep_15_1787.html
“Letter to Her Daughter from the New White House” by Abigail Adams
LETTER
http://tinyurl.com/k6h972h
From Letters from an American Farmer, Letter III: “What is an American?” by Crevecoeur
LETTER/EPISTLE
Read first five paragraphs:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/letter_03.asp
or
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=3644
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English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Unit 3 – A Growing Nation / Romanticism Unit (1800-1870)
“The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
SHORT STORY
http://classiclit.about.com/od/devilandtomwalker/a/aa_deviltomwalker.htm
or
http://tinyurl.com/bmt42
“A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173910
or
http://www.bartleby.com/102/55.html
“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173917
or
http://www.bartleby.com/248/208.html
“Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180813
or
http://www.bartleby.com/102/16.html
“Old Ironsides” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175883
or
http://www.bartleby.com/42/802.html
“The First Snowfall” by James Russell Lowell
POETRY
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/first-snowfall
or
http://www.bartleby.com/248/351.html
English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
From “Snowbound” by John Greenleaf Whittier
POETRY
Read through the line, “With nuts from brown October’s wood.”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174758
or
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/snow-bound-sun-brief-december-day
Plus, selections from The Legend of Sleep Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
* Teacher will check out this book to you in class.
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English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Unit 3.1 – American Renaissance Unit
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
SHORT STORY
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm
“My Kinsman, Major Molineux” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
SHORT STORY
http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mm.html
From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
NONFICTION
Read Chapter 1: Nature
http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature1.htm
or
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/emerson/nature.html
From Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
NONFICTION
http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
NONFICTION
http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden02.html
or
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm#linkW2
From Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
NONFICTION
Read first five pages:
http://tinyurl.com/k6md8x9
or
Read first five paragraphs:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
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English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Unit 3.2 – Whitman / Dickinson Poetry Unit
“Because I could not stop for Death--“ by Emily Dickinson
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177119
or
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479
From Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
POETRY
Read #1, 6, 9, 14, 17, 51, 52:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174745
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English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Unit 4 – Division, reconciliation, and Expansion (1850-1914) / Realism
“An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane
SHORT STORY
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1510/
or
http://tinyurl.com/m6zzx59
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
SONG
http://www.negrospirituals.com/songs/swing_low_sweet_chariot_swing_lo.htm
“Go Down, Moses”
SONG
http://www.negrospirituals.com/songs/go_down_moses1.htm
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
NONFICTION
Read about his struggle to fight for his own literacy:
http://genius.com/Frederick-douglass-my-bondage-and-my-freedom-chap-11-annotated
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
SHORT STORY
http://fiction.eserver.org/short/occurrence_at_owl_creek.html
or
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/375/375-h/375-h.htm
“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln
SPEECH
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
or
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/232225/Gettysburg-Address
“Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln
SPEECH
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln2.asp
or
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte
SHORT STORY
http://www.bartleby.com/310/4/2.html
or
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1312/1312-h/1312-h.htm
“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
SHORT STORY
http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html
or
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/jlondon/bl-jlon-fire.htm
Plus…
Selections from the book The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain by Mark Twain (Samuel L.
Clemens)
* Teacher will check out this book to you in class.
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English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Unit 5 – Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent (1914-1946) /
Modernism
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/173476
or
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
“In a Station of the Metro” by William Carlos Williams
POETRY
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/station-metro
“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/178804
“The Great Figure” by William Carlos Williams
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182065
“This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245576
“Pear Tree” by H.D.
POETRY
http://www.bartleby.com/104/112.html
“The Far and the Near” by Thomas Wolfe
SHORT STORY
http://www.readfirst.net/wolfe.html
“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/2043
English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
“Race at Morning” by William Faulkner
SHORT STORY
http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/display/wfaudio22_1read (Has audio reading by Faulkner)
“Birches” by Robert Frost
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173524
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
“Out, Out—“ by Robert Frost
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238122
“The Gift Outright” by Robert Frost
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237942
“The Night the Ghost Got In” by James Thurber
NONFICTION
http://www.unz.org/Pub/BurnettWhit-1942-00872
Plus…
We will read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald during the Modernism Unit.
* Teacher will check out this book to you in class.
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English 3 American Literature Links to Reading Assignments
Unit 5.1 – Harlem Renaissance
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173693
“Ardella” by Langston Hughes
POETRY
http://allpoetry.com/Ardella
“Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes
POETRY
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dream-variations
“Refugee in America” by Langston Hughes
POETRY
http://hughespoemanalysis.weebly.com/refugee-in-america.html
“The Tropics in New York” by Claude McKay
POETRY
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173963
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