Syllabus 1: September 7–30, 2011

Young Goodman Brown  Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rip Van Winkle  Washington Irving

The Red Pony  John Steinbeck

Vocabulary Groups 1, 2, 3

Syllabus 2: Oct. 3 – Nov. 4, 2011

A Retrieved Reformation  O. Henry

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer AUDIO

Vocabulary Groups 4, 5, 6

Syllabus 3: Nov. 7 – Dec. 9, 2011

A Christmas Memory  Truman Capote

To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee

Vocabulary Groups 7, 8, 9

Syllabus 6

The Transcendentalists: Emerson and Thoreau

The Red Badge of Courage  Stephen Crane

Red Badge AUDIO

Civil War Poetry by Dickinson, Melville, Whitman

Vocabulary Groups 16, 17, 18

Syllabus 4: Dec. 12, 2011 – Feb. 3, 2012

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

More Abolitionist Works: Stowe, Whittier, Whitman

Vocabulary Groups 10, 11, 12


Winter Bonus: Little Lord Fauntleroy

Syllabus 5: Feb. 6 – Mar. 2, 2012

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Mark Twain

Huck Finn AUDIO

Vocabulary Groups 13, 14, 15

Syllabus 7   The Story of My Life  Helen Keller

The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

O Captain! My Captain!  Walt Whitman

Ain’t I a Woman?  Sojourner Truth

Old Ironsides Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Brown  Bob Dylan

Syllabus 8

Pioneers! O Pioneers! Walt Whitman

O Pioneers!  Willa Cather

The Road Not Taken  Robert Frost

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