American Literature
Foundations
Puritan and Quaker comparison
Transcendentalists
Civil Disobedience by HD Thoreau
Song of myself by Walt Whitman
America by Walt Whitman
Thoreau -- Where I lived...
The End of Solitude -- Deresiewicz
Gothic
Emily Dickinson -- selected poems
Edgar Allen Poe -- Cask of Amontillado
Realists
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Kate Chopin -- Story of an Hour
Frederick Douglass -- Meaning of July 4
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Unlce Tom's Cabin excerpts
Naturalists
by Jack London -- To Build a Fire
Edith Wharton --
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath excerpts
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper
Modernists
Hemingway -- A Clean Well-lighted place
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes -- Thank you Ma'am
Beat
Constantly risking obsurdity by Lawrence Ferlingetti
America by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg
Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
Contemporary/modern/post-modern
Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
How to tell a true war story by Tim Obrien
Multicultural voices
Refugee Mother and Child by Chinua Achebe
Defending Walt Whitman by Sherman Alexie
Still I rise by Maya Angelou
Non-fiction
The Meaning of July 4...by Frederick Douglass
Homemade Education by Malcolm X
We're Rich! (n Nature) by N. Kristoff
American Protest Literature -- John Stauffer
Who Are You? Vincent R Rugierro
Other
A Case of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lit Test – Study Guide for Periods 1 and 2 (Fall 2011)
The Great Gatsby Test
One of your final assessments for The Great Gatsby will be a multiple choice/ short answer test worth 50 pts looking at the following topics and using passages from the book to support your answers. Part of the test will be a group test and part will be individual. You will be allowed to use notes and the book for part of the test, so I would recommend doing some spend some time becoming familiar with the book to speed up any searches for quotes, etc.
- Corruption of people and society in response to the events of the 1920’s and as portrayed in Gatsby
- Quote identification
- Character analysis, character comparisons in Gatsby (Gatsby, Nick, Tom, Daisy)
- Gatsby as commentary on the state of the American Dream
- Appearance vs reality
- Gatsby as Romantic hero placed in the center of a book of Realism.
- Use of color in the Great Gatsby (especially white, green, blue, gold)
- Fitzgerald’s use of symbolism throughout the novel in relation to the American Dream, looking at the following symbols:East Egg/West Egg, the valley of ashes, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, the owl-eyed man, Gatsby's parties.
As you are prepping for your Gatsby skits, work together to better understand the topics above