Reading Assignments

The following reading assignments may be given as printed handouts during the school year. 

Quarter 1

• Week 1: "The Second Inaugural Address" by Abraham Lincoln

• Week 2: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry

• Week 3: "I Have A Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Week 4: "The Ballot or the Bullet" by Malcolm X

• Week 5: "9/11 Address to the American People" by George W. Bush

• Week 6: "I've Been to the Mountaintop" by Martin Luther King, Jr. 

• Week 7: "Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Challenger" by Ronald Reagan

"Pearl Harbor Address" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Week 8: "A More Perfect Union" by Barack Obama

Quarter 2

• Week 1: 12 Angry Men Worksheet

• Week 2: Declaration of Independence

• Week 3: "First Inaugural Address" by George Washington

War of the Worlds Worksheet

• Week 4: "Ain't I A Woman?" by Sojourner Truth

"Woman's Rights to Suffrage" by Susan B. Anthony

• Week 5: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" by Fredrick Douglass

• Week 6: "Thanksgiving Day Proclamation" by Abraham Lincoln

• Week 7-8: "Federalist 10" by James Madison

Articles of Confederation

US Constitution

Quarter 3

• Week 1: "Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln

"The War Prayer" by Mark Twain

• Week 2: "The Only Thing We Have to Fear" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Week 3: "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" by Fredrick Douglass

• Week 4: "Corletta Scott King's Eulogy" by Maya Angelou

 "Speech in Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by Robert Kennedy

• Week 6: "Closing Arguments" by Clarence S. Darrow

Leopold & Loab Court Case

• Week 9: "Farewell Address" by George Washington

Quarter 4

• Week 1: "Checkers" by Richard Nixon

• Week 4: "Atoms for Peace" by Dwight D. Eisenhower 

• Week 5: "Inaugural Address" by John F. Kennedy

• Week 6: "Speech to the Third Army" by George Patton

• Week 7: "Farewell Address" by Dwight D. Eisenhower 

• Week 8: "Tear Down This Wall" by Ronald Reagan

• Week 9: "Senate Statement on PBS Funding" By Fred Rogers

Emergency Absence: 

If Mr. Jordan is unexpectedly absent, you will read and annotate the following speech:

• "The Man in the Arena" by Theodore Roosevelt

• "The Man with the Muckrake" by Theodore Roosevelt

Quarter 1: Videos of Speeches

Quarter 2: Videos of Speeches

Quarter 3: Videos of Speeches

Quarter 4: Videos of Speeches