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WeekAssignment

1) Hughes, "Let America be America Again"

Rios, "Day of the Refugios"

Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham"

Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream"

2) Bradford biography, from Of Plymouth Plantation

Morton biography, from New English Canaan

Winthrop biography, "A Model of Christian Charity"

3) Hawthorne, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount"

4) Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish PDF Version

Internet Version (Read All Nine Chapters)

5) Mather, "The Tryal . . . Held in Salem"

Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"

6) Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

7) Sewall, "The Selling of Joseph"

Hughes Poems, "Dream Variations" "I, Too, Sing America"

"Life is Fine" "Madam and Her Madam"

"Madam and the Phone Bill" "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Night Funeral in Harlem" "Po' Boy Blues"

"Theme for English B" "The Weary Blues"

8) Test I

9) Longfellow, Evangeline (Alternate Links: PDF, Word doc.)

Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

Bill of Rights

10) Paine, Common Sense (read "Thoughts on the Present . . .")

Paine, "The American Crisis #1"

11) Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"

Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain John Brown"

12) Douglass (read chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

13) Charlton Heston at Harvard "Winning the Cultural War" Hawthorne, "The Birthmark" "Rappaccini's Daughter"

(Don't read the first two paragraphs)

14) Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

"A Horseman in the Sky" "A Baffled Ambuscade"

15) Test II

Literary Research Assignment