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American Literature Syllabus - Fall
Readings will include, but will not be limited to, most of the following, not necessarily in this order.
Novels
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (video) - John Steinbeck*(approximately three weeks per novel, 5 novels per semester)
Selected Short Stories
"The Open Boat" - Stephen Crane
"The Fall of the House of Usher" - Edgar Allen Poe
"The Black Cat" - Edgar Allen Poe
Selected Non-Fiction
from The Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
from Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Huck Finn - Mark Twain
War - George Santayana
Guns - Michael Royko
Cinematypes - Susan Allen Toth
Selected Poetry
"So Much Depends" - William Carlos Williams
"The Ex-Basketball Player" - John Updike
"The Pearl" - Christopher Morley
"Chicago" - Carl Sandburg
"Grass" - Carl Sandburg
"Miss Rosie" - Lucille Clifton
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" - Randall Jarrell
"The Machine-Gun" - Randall Jarrell
"Redecoration" - Liz Shura
"To A Mouse . . ." - Robert Burns
Novels
Night - Elie Wiesel
Hiroshima - John Hershey
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
from I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
The Kitchen God’s Wife - Amy Tan
* (approximately three weeks per novel, 5 novels per semester)
Selected Short Stories
from "A Farewell to Arms" - Ernest Hemingway
"By the Waters of Babylon" - Stephen Vincent Benet
"Harrison Bergeron" - Kurt Vonnegut
"Computers Don’t Argue" - Gordon R. Dickson
"Thirty Days Had September" - Robert F. Young
Selected Non-Fiction
from A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
All I Really Need to Know . . . - Robert Fulghum
Shopping as an Entertainment Form - William Safire
I Have a Dream - M. L. King, Jr.
Another Reason to Fear . . . - Dave Barry
To Be Young, Gifted & Black - Lorraine Hansberry
Selected Poetry
"Dream Deferred" ("Harlem" from Lenox Avenue Mural) - Langston Hughes
"Theme for English B" - Langston Hughes
"Stopping by Woods," "Fire and Ice" - Robert Frost
"Mending Wall," "Birches" - Robert Frost
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" - Robert Frost
"Jeremiah Blue" - Sting
"Eve of Destruction" - P. F. Sloan
"From Burnt Norton" - T. S. Eliot
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"- T. S. Eliot
"Ars Poetica" - Archibald MacLeish
"Pity This Busy Monster" - E.E. Cummings
"All Watched Over by Machines" - Richard Brautigan
"Of Loving Grace" - Richard Brautigan
"Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide" - Imamu Baraka
"Note & Each Morning" - Imamu Baraka
Selected Modern American Drama
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