Common+Core--11th+Grade


 * __11-1 Literary Texts—The New World__**

**Poems**
 * “An Hymn to the Evening” (Phillis Wheatley) (EA)
 * [|“To His Excellency General Washington”](Phillis Wheatley) (EA)
 * “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (Phillis Wheatley) (E)
 * “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (Anne Bradstreet)
 * “Upon the Burning of Our House” (Anne Bradstreet)
 * “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” (Edward Taylor)
 * [|An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1648] (Samuel Danforth) (selections)
 * [|“The Day of Doom”] (Michael Wigglesworth)
 * [|“The Sot-Weed Factor”] (Ebenezer Cook)

**Plays**
 * //The Crucible// (Arthur Miller) (EA) (L 755)

**Informational Texts**
 * Of Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford) (selections)
 * "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Jonathan Edwards)
 * The Bloody Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience (Roger Williams) (selections)
 * A Key into the Language of America (Roger Williams) (selections)
 * The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 (William Byrd) (selections)
 * A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Mary Rowlandson)
 * The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial (Samuel Sewall)

**__11-2 Literary Texts—A New Nation__**

**Poems**
 * “The Star-Spangled Banner” (Francis Scott Key)
 * “The Wild Honeysuckle” (Philip Freneau)
 * “The Indian Burying Ground” (Philip Freneau)

**Prose**
 * The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) (L 1370)
 * Equiano’s Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (Olaudah Equiano)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Informational Text**
 * “Declaration of Independence” (Thomas Jefferson) (E) (L 1252)
 * “Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom” (Thomas Jefferson) (EA)
 * Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816) (Thomas Jefferson) (EA)
 * [|Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson] (August 19, 1791)
 * [|Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Benjamin Banneker] (August 30, 1791)
 * [|Preamble to the Constitution] (E)
 * “[|The Way to Wealth],” //Poor Richard’s Almanack// (Benjamin Franklin) (selections) (L 630)
 * [|Speech to the Virginia Convention] (Patrick Henry) (E)
 * [|Common Sense or The Crisis] (Thomas Paine) (E) (L 1330)
 * [|Federalist No. 1](Alexander Hamilton) (E) (L 1450)
 * [|Federalist No. 10] (James Madison) (L 1450)
 * [|The Complete Anti-Federalist] (Herbert J. Storing) (selections)
 * [|Letters from an American Farmer] (J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur) (selections)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __ Prompt: How did artists portray historical figures and events from the founding of America?

**Art**
 * Emanuel Leutze, // [|Washington Crossing The Delaware] // (1851)
 * John Trumbull, // [|Declaration of Independence] // (1819)
 * John Copley, // [|Paul Revere] // (ca. 1768)
 * Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, [|Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon] (1859)
 * Gilbert Stuart, // [|James Monroe] // (ca. 1820-1822)
 * Gustavus Hesselius, // [|Lapowinsa] // (1735)
 * Auguste Couder, // [|Siège de Yorktown] // (ca. 1836)

**__11-3 Literary Texts—American Romanticism__**

**Poems**
 * “[|The Old Oaken Bucket]” (Samuel Woodworth)
 * “[|The Raven]” (Edgar Allan Poe) (E 9 -10)
 * “[|Annabel Lee]” (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA)
 * “[|Song of Myself”] (Walt Whitman) (E)
 * [|“I Hear America Singing]” (Walt Whitman) (EA)
 * [|“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”] (Walt Whitman) (EA)
 * “[|A Bird came down the Walk]” (Emily Dickinson) (EA)
 * [|“This is my letter to the World]” (Emily Dickinson) (EA)
 * “[|Because I could not stop for Death]” (Emily Dickinson) (E)

**Short Stories**
 * “[|The Fall of the House of Usher] ” (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA)
 * “[|The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]” (Washington Irving) (L 1019)
 * “[|Rip Van Winkle]” (Washington Irving) (L 930)
 * “[|Rappaccini’s Daughter]” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (EA)
 * “[|The Minister’s Black Veil]” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (EA) (L 1270)
 * “[|Young Goodman Brown]” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (EA)
 * “[|Billy Budd]” (Herman Melville) (E) (L 1450)
 * [|“The Piazza]” (Herman Melville) (EA)

**Novels**
 * The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (E) (L 1332)
 * The Pioneers (James Fenimore Cooper) (L 1260)
 * Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) (EA) (L 1200)
 * Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) (L 1050)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Essays**
 * “[|Self-Reliance]” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (EA)
 * “[|Society and Solitude]” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (E)
 * [|Walden; or, Life in the Woods] (Henry David Thoreau) (E) (L 1340)
 * “[|Civil Disobedience]” (Henry David Thoreau) (EA) (L 1240)
 * [|“Annexation” United States Magazine and Democratic Review 17, No. 1] (1845) (John O’Sullivan)

**Speeches**
 * "[|Address to William Henry Harrison]" (Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, 1810) (text and audio)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Art** //Paintings//
 * Frederic Church, [|Niagara] (1857)
 * George Inness, [|The Lackannawa Valley] (1855)
 * Asher Durand, [|Kindred Spirits] (1849)
 * Albert Bierstadt, [|Looking Down Yosemite Valley] (1865)
 * [|John Trumbull]
 * [|Declaration of Independence]

**__10-4 Literary Texts—A Troubled Young Nation__**

**Folk Tales**
 * [|“Promises of Freedom]” (search for "Promises of Freedom" in the //Negro Folk Rhymes// ebook)
 * [|“Plantation Proverbs]” (//Uncle Remus//)
 * “[|All God’s Children Had Wings]”
 * “The Signifying Monkey”

**Short Stories**
 * [|“Roman Fever”] (Edith Wharton)
 * “[|The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County]” (Mark Twain) (EA) (L 982)
 * [|“What Stumped the Bluejays]” (Mark Twain) (EA)

**Novels**
 * //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// (Mark Twain) (EA) (L 850)
 * The Awakening (Kate Chopin) (L 960)
 * //Ethan Frome// (Edith Wharton) (L 1160)
 * Daisy Miller (Henry James) (L 850)
 * The Call of the Wild (Jack London) (L 951)
 * Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) (L 945)
 * My Ántonia (Willa Cather) (L 970)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Historical Nonfiction**
 * [|Letter to Albert G. Hodges] (Abraham Lincoln) (EA)
 * //[|Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] [|, an American Slave], Written by Himself// (Frederick Douglass) (EA) (selections) (L 1077)
 * [|Up From Slavery: An Autobiography] (Booker T. Washington) (L1320)
 * [|The Narrative of Sojourner Truth] (Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert)
 * [|Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention] (1848)
 * [|“The Higher Education of Women” A Voice from the South] (Anna Julia Cooper)
 * //[|The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man]// (James Weldon Johnson) (L 1100)
 * [|Twenty Years at Hull House] (Jane Addams) (selections) (L 1650)

**Speeches**
 * [|“A House Divided”] (Abraham Lincoln) (EA)
 * [|“The Gettysburg Address”] (Abraham Lincoln) (E) (L 1340)
 * [|"Ain’t I a woman?”] (Sojourner Truth) (May 29, 1851)
 * [|“I will fight no more forever”] (Chief Joseph the Younger of the Nez Perce Nation) (October 5, 1877)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Music** //Spirituals//
 * “[|Go Down, Moses]” (Traditional)
 * “[|Swing Low, Sweet Chariot]” (Traditional)
 * “I Thank God I’m Free at Last” (Traditional)
 * [|“Lift Every Voice and Sing]” (James Weldon Johnson) (E)

**Art** //Painters//
 * [|Thomas Eakins]
 * [|Winslow Homer]

**Film** "Unchained Memories" (HBO Documentary, in conjunction with the Library of Congress, 2003) (Readings From the Slave Narratives)

**__10-5 Literary Texts—Emerging Modernism__**

**Poems**
 * [|“Tableau”] (Countee Cullen) (EA)
 * [|“Yet Do I Marvel]” (Countee Cullen) (E)
 * [|“Richard Cory]” (E.A. Robinson)
 * “[|The House on the Hill]” (E.A. Robinson)
 * “[|The Negro Speaks of Rivers]” (Langston Hughes) (EA)
 * “[|Mother to Son]” (Langston Hughes) (EA)
 * [|“Harlem”] (Langston Hughes) (EA)
 * [|“The Death of the Hired Man]” (Robert Frost) (EA)
 * “[|Birches]” (Robert Frost) (EA)
 * “[|The Road Not Taken]” (Robert Frost) (E)
 * [|“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]” (T.S. Eliot) (E)
 * “[|Poetry]” (Marianne Moore)
 * //The Pisan Cantos// (Ezra Pound) (selections)
 * “[|Domination of Black]” (Wallace Stevens)
 * “[|A High-Toned Old Christian Woman]” (Wallace Stevens)
 * “[|Conscientious Objector]” (Edna St Vincent Millay) (EA)
 * “In the Dordogne” (John Peale Bishop)
 * “[|Grass]” (Carl Sandburg) (EA)
 * [|“The Silent Slain]” (Archibald MacLeish)

**Short Stories**
 * “[|A Rose for Emily]” (William Faulkner) (EA) (L 1270)
 * [|“Hills Like White Elephants]” (Ernest Hemingway) (EA) (L 790)
 * “[|The Snows of Kilimanjaro]” (Ernest Hemingway) (EA) (L 820)
 * [|“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place]” (Ernest Hemingway) (EA) (L 790)

**Novels**
 * //Their Eyes Were Watching God// (Zora Neale Hurston) (E) (L 1080)
 * The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) (E) (L 1070)
 * //As I Lay Dying// (William Faulkner) (E) (L 870)
 * //A Farewell to Arms// (Ernest Hemingway) (E) (L 730)
 * //The Pearl// (John Steinbeck) (EA) (L 1010)
 * //Of Mice and Men// (John Steinbeck) (EA) (L 630)
 * [|Winesburg, Ohio] (Sherwood Anderson) (selections) (L 1050)

**Plays** //The Piano Lesson// (August Wilson)

**Informational Texts**

**Speeches**
 * //Black Elk Speaks// (Black Elk, as told through John G. Neihardt) (selections) (L 910)
 * [|“The Solitude of Self”] (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) (February 20, 1892)
 * “Freedom” (White)
 * “[|The Spirit of Liberty]” speech at “I Am an American Day” (1944) (Learned Hand) (EA)

**Essays**
 * “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” (James Baldwin)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Art**
 * Marsden Hartley, [|Mount Katahdin, Maine] (1942)
 * Georgia O’Keefe, [|Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory] (1938)
 * Alfred Stieglitz, [|From the Back Window, 291] (1915)
 * Jacob Lawrence, [|War Series: The Letter//] (1946)
 * Charles Sheeler, [|Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company] (1927)
 * Stuart Davis, [|Owh! In San Pao] (1951)
 * Charles Demuth, [|My Egypt] (1927)
 * Arthur Dove, [|Goat] (1934)
 * Imogen Cunningham, [|Calla] (1929)

**__11-6 Literary Texts—Challenges and Successes of the Twentieth Century__**

**Short Stories**
 * [|“Petrified Man]” (Eudora Welty)
 * “[|A Good Man is Hard to Find]” (Flannery O’Connor)
 * “[|The Swimmer]” (John Cheever)
 * [|“A Small, Good Thing”] (Raymond Carver)
 * “Flying Home” (Ralph Ellison)
 * [|“The Man Who Was Almost a Man”](Richard Wright)
 * [|“A & P”] (John Updike)
 * [|“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”](Joyce Carol Oates)

**Plays**
 * //Death of a Salesman// (Arthur Miller)
 * //A Streetcar Named Desire// (Tennessee Williams)

**Novels**
 * //Invisible Man// (Ralph Ellison) (L 950)
 * //Native Son// (Richard Wright) (L 700)
 * //Seize the Day// (Saul Bellow)
 * //The Catcher in the Rye// (J.D. Salinger) (L 790)
 * //Cat’s Cradle// (Kurt Vonnegut) (L 790)
 * //The Joy Luck Club// (Amy Tan) (L 930)
 * //Love Medicine// (Louise Erdrich) (L 780)
 * //Song of Solomon// (Toni Morrison) (L 870)
 * //All the Pretty Horses// (L 940) or //The Road// (L 670) (Cormac McCarthy)

**Poems**
 * [|“Sestina”] (Elizabeth Bishop) (E)
 * [|“The Fish”] (Elizabeth Bishop) (EA)
 * [|“One Art”] (Elizabeth Bishop) (EA)
 * [|“America”] (Allen Ginsberg)
 * [|“Love Calls us to the Things of This World”] (Richard Wilbur)
 * [|“Skunk Hour”] (Robert Lowell)
 * [|“Memories of West Street and Lepke”](Robert Lowell)
 * [|“July in Washington”] (Robert Lowell)
 * [|“The Black Swan”] (James Merrill)
 * [|“The Octopus”] (James Merrill)
 * [|“Days of 1964”](James Merrill)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Speeches**
 * [|“Address to the Broadcasting Industry”] (Newton Minow)
 * [|Inaugural Address] (John F. Kennedy) (January 20, 1961) (L NC1110)
 * [|“Brandenburg Gate Address” (Ronald Reagan) (June 12, 1987)]

**Essays**
 * [|“On Being an American”] (H.L. Mencken)
 * [|“Seeing”] or other essays from //Pilgrim at Tinker Creek// (Annie Dillard) (L 1100)
 * [|“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”](Martin Luther King, Jr.)

**Biography and Autobiography**
 * //Patton: A Biography// (Alan Axelrod) (selections)
 * //The Autobiography of Malcolm X: as Told to Alex Haley// (Malcolm X) (selections) (L1120)

**Historical Nonfiction**
 * [|The Feminine Mystique] (Betty Friedan)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Music**
 * [|“This Land is Your Land”] (Woody Guthrie)
 * [|“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?]” (Pete Seeger)
 * [|“Blowin’ in the Wind”] (Bob Dylan)

**Media**
 * //A Streetcar Named Desire// (1951)
 * //A Streetcar Named Desire// (1955)