Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The Autobiography (Excerpt)
Unit 2 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
Unit 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Self-Reliance (Excerpt)
Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)
The Scarlet Letter -- Chapter
Unit 5 Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick -- Chapter
Unit 6 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden -- Chapter 2 (Excerpt)
Unit 7 19th-Century American Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Unit 8 Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Unit 9 Henry James (1843-1916)
The Jolly Corner
Unit 10 Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Open Boat
Unit 11 Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Miss Jewett
Unit 12 Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
The Triumph of the Egg
Unit 13 Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Unit 14 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby -- Chapter
Unit 15 William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Barn Burning
Unit 16 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Unit 17 20th-Century American Poets (I)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
Unit 18 Eugene Glastone O'Neill (1888-1953)
Desire Under the Elms -- Scene IV
Unit 19 Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985)
Once More to the Lake
Unit 20 Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit 21 Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
Invisible Man -- Chapter