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American Literature

Introduction

• Introductory Letter
• Syllabus
• Daily Lessons (subject to modification)
• Intro Quotes
• Surfin' USA

Contrasting Visions

• Notes
• Project

Puritan Colonial

• Student in the Hands
• Some Crucible Questions
• Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
• Witch Hunt Evaluation
• "Naming Names" on NPR

Revolutionary Reason

• Ben Franklin Aphorisms
• Ben Franklin Epitaph
• Declaring Your Independence

Romanticism

• Poe's Raven

Transcendentalism

• Civil Disobedience
• Thoreau's Walden on NPR
• Thoreau Reader

Whitman

• I Hear America Singing
• I Hear Rubric
• Poet's Palette
• Walt Whitman Archive
• Walt Whitman: Poet at Work

Growing Up American Style

• Calendar
• The Simpsons: An American Satire
• A Simpsons Site
• Ken Burns Twain on PBS
• Your Adventure with Huck
• Huck Lit Elements Bookmark 1
• Huck Lit Elements Bookmark 2
• Huck Jigsaw Topics
• "Born to Trouble" Huck link
• Randall Kennedy's N-Word link
• Revelation River
• Literary Elements PowerPoint (w/ J. Leer)
• West Wing Literary Elements 1
• West Wing Literary Elements 2
• Death of a Salesman link
• Death of a Salesman Talking Points
• American High PBS Series link
• Slavery Project
• Plantation Protocol
• Slavery Proof of Property Certificate

Diversity, Dissent & Discord

• United States of Poetry link
• Kerouac link
• Go "On the Road" to America
• Fences
• Invisible Man
• Malcom X
• Maya Angelou
• Rita Dove
• Nikki Giovanni
• House on Mango Street
• Braided Lives
• Smoke Signals ("Lone Ranger...)
• AmericArt Project
• AmericArt Newspaper Clip #1
• AmericArt Newspaper Clip #2
• Diversity, Dissent, Discord Prep Notes
• Diversity, Dissent, Discord Bookmark 1
• Diversity, Dissent, Discord Bookmark 2

FINAL

• What Will It Do to You?