Ø     "Beginnings"

o       Native Americans

o      Puritans/Planters

• The Crucible

o       Slave ships

Ø      “The Examined Life”

o       Ben Franklin

Ø      “The American Dream”

o       Patrick Henry

o       Thomas Paine

o       Thomas Jefferson

Ø      “Romanticism”

o       Washington Irving

o       James Fennimore Cooper

o       Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ø      “American Renaissance”

o       Ralph Waldo Emerson

o       Henry David Thoreau

Ø      “Tales of Darkness”

o       Edgar Allan Poe

o       Herman Melville

Ø      Research Paper: Persuasive Social Essay (2 ½-3 pgs.)

Ø      “Poetry”

o       Walt Whitman

o       Emily Dickinson

Ø      “The Rise of Realism”

o       Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Huck Finn

Ø      “The Moderns”

o       Fahrenheit 451