TXMary2 Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 .......for American History literature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 (edited) 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. Edited January 10, 2010 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 O Pioneers and My Antonia are both very moving portrayals of settlers in the midwest and the difficulties they faced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 (edited) 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. :) Edited January 10, 2010 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 (edited) 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 Edited January 10, 2010 by Lori D. added info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 I've tagged this thread with the tag "American Literature." If you click below on the tag, you'll be taken to other threads on this topic. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msjones Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhaddon Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Did anyone mention The Yearling? I didn't read it until I was in HS and it one of my favorite books :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Thanks for all the great suggestions. Most of them were on my list, but some I had not remembered. The list for short stories is excellent- THANK YOU! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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