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How old? What era?

 

Currently my teen is doing moderns in history.

 

She recently read two of Steinbeck's 'California' Novels: Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

 

For WW II , she is currently reading Farewell to Manzanar, then Catch 22 (my dh thinks this is a great novel, I am not sure how she will like it), and Snow Falling on Cedars.

 

Off the top of my head (time flies), in the past we've done:

 

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Crucible

The Scarlet Letter

House of Seven Gables

To Kill a Mockingbird

Killer Angels

Phyllis Wheatley

On Walden Pond

Tom Sawyer

Farenheit 451

Little Women

 

There are just so many, kwim.

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O Pioneers and My Antonia are both very moving portrayals of settlers in the midwest and the difficulties they faced.

 

 

I love My Antonia.

 

I didn't see the panninng, but I enjoy of lot of lit that has been panned by crtics-- past and present. I am ok with that. :)

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We're doing American Lit. this year with our 10th and 11th grade DSs:

 

Novels:

- The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) --> (followed by gr. 6-8 book "The Day They Arrested the Book)

- Call of the Wild (London)

- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

 

Novellas:

- Billy Budd (Melville)

- The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)

- The Pearl (Steinbeck)

 

Short Stories:

- Rip Van Winkle (Irving)

- Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving)

- Fall of the House of Usher (Poe)

- Man Without a Country (Hale)

- Luck of Roaring Camp (Harte)

- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Bierce)

- The Catbird Seat (Thurber)

- Thank You Ma'am (Hughes)

- The Lottery (Jackson)

- A Good Man is Hard to Find (O'Connor)

- Revelation (O'Connor)

- There Will Come Soft Rains (Bradbury)

- The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas (LeGuin)

 

Plays (we'll just watch, not read them):

- Our Town (Wilder)

- A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)

- Death of a Salesman (Miller)

 

Poets

- Anne Bradstreet

- Phyllis Wheatley

- Emily Dickinson

- Walt Whitman

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

- Robert Frost

 

Excerpts from essays, speeches, biographies

 

 

Other "don't miss" American works we did in previous years:

- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) -- novel

- To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) -- novel

- Farenheit 451 (Bradbury) -- novel

- The Giver (Lowry) -- middle school level novel

- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller) -- novel

- The Earthsea trilogy: Wizard of Earthsea; Tombs of Atuan; Farthest Shore (LeGuin) -- novels

- Helen Keller: Story of My Life (Keller) -- autobiography

- Bride Comes to Yellow Sky ( Crane) -- short story

- Gift of the Magi (Henry) -- short story

- The Lady or the Tiger (Stockton) -- short story

- The Most Dangerous Game (Connell) -- short story

 

 

And here are a few more American works I'm really trying to figure out how to fit in somewhere along the line:

- Penrod (Tarkington)

- The Chosen (Potok)

- Black Like Me (Griffin)

- I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Craven)

- The Joy Luck Club (Tan)

 

 

A girl might especially enjoy some of these titles:

- Christy (Marshall)

- My Antonia (Cather)

- Little Women (Alcott) -- middle school level reading

- Mama's Bank Account (Forbes) -- middle school level reading

- Sing Down the Moon (O'Dell) -- middle school level reading

- Streams to the River, River to the Sea (O'Dell) -- middle school level reading

- After the Dancing Days -- middle school level reading

- A Gathering of Days (Blos) -- middle school level reading

- Julie of the Wolves (George) -- middle school level reading

- Farewell to Manzanar (Yep) -- middle school level reading

- A Year Down Yonder (Peck) -- middle school level reading

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We're doing American Lit. this year with our 10th and 11th grade DSs:

 

Novels:

- The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) --> (followed by gr. 6-8 book "The Day They Arrested the Book)

- Call of the Wild (London)

- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

 

Novellas:

- Billy Budd (Melville)

- The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)

- The Pearl (Steinbeck)

 

Short Stories:

- Rip Van Winkle (Irving)

- Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving)

- Fall of the House of Usher (Poe)

- Man Without a Country (Hale)

- Luck of Roaring Camp (Harte)

- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Bierce)

- The Catbird Seat (Thurber)

- Thank You Ma'am (Hughes)

- The Lottery (Jackson)

- A Good Man is Hard to Find (O'Connor)

- Revelation (O'Connor)

- There Will Come Soft Rains (Bradbury)

- The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas (LeGuin)

 

Plays (we'll just watch, not read them):

- Our Town (Wilder)

- A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)

- Death of a Salesman (Miller)

 

Poets

- Anne Bradstreet

- Phyllis Wheatley

- Emily Dickinson

- Walt Whitman

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

- Robert Frost

 

Excerpts from essays, speeches, biographies

 

 

Other "don't miss" American works we did in previous years:

- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) -- novel

- To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) -- novel

- Farenheit 451 (Bradbury) -- novel

- The Giver (Lowry) -- middle school level novel

- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller) -- novel

- The Earthsea trilogy: Wizard of Earthsea; Tombs of Atuan; Farthest Shore (LeGuin) -- novels

- Helen Keller: Story of My Life (Keller) -- autobiography

- Bride Comes to Yellow Sky ( Crane) -- short story

- Gift of the Magi (Henry) -- short story

- The Lady or the Tiger (Stockton) -- short story

- The Most Dangerous Game (Connell) -- short story

 

 

And here are a few more American works I'm really trying to figure out how to fit in somewhere along the line:

- Penrod (Tarkington)

- The Chosen (Potok)

- Black Like Me (Griffin)

- I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Craven)

- The Joy Luck Club (Tan)

 

 

A girl might especially enjoy some of these titles:

- Christy (Marshall)

- My Antonia (Cather)

- Little Women (Alcott) -- middle school level reading

- Mama's Bank Account (Forbes) -- middle school level reading

- Sing Down the Moon (O'Dell) -- middle school level reading

- Streams to the River, River to the Sea (O'Dell) -- middle school level reading

- After the Dancing Days -- middle school level reading

- A Gathering of Days (Blos) -- middle school level reading

- Julie of the Wolves (George) -- middle school level reading

- Farewell to Manzanar (Yep) -- middle school level reading

- A Year Down Yonder (Peck) -- middle school level reading

 

I love this list! Thank you!

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I am a bit confused by what you mean by American history literature? Did you mean American literature or American historical books or books that made a difference in American history?

 

Sorry. I meant literature books that can double for history. I want books that we can use for literary analysis purposes, but that take place during the time period we would be studying for U.S. History.

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