Le textbook
Well, with a name like that, you deserve a cookie for stumbling through it. Abbreviated as H AmLit/Ex, H Am Lit, Honors American, or simply Lit, the only time you'll see the entire "official" title is on the syllabus. This is the first year of the "true honors" program, and it's not for the faint of heart.
Summer Reading[]
Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace
During the Class[]
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
A Narrative of Her Captivity by Mary Rowlandson
Upon the Burning of our House by Anne Bradstreet
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Battle with Mr. Covey by Frederick Douglass
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Grim by Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
I Heard a Fly Buzz as I died by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Plague Words[]
Get/Got/Gotten
Intensifiers: very, extremely, really
Slang: kids, a lot of, sort of, kind of, stuff, things, fake
Personal Pronouns