The American Experience
1030 (Prentice Hall Red Textbook)
Native American Origin Myth
Onondaga "The Earth on Turtle's Back" pp. 14-18 #1-5
Modoc "When Grizzlies Walked Upright" pp. 14-15, 19-21
Navajo "from The Navajo Origin Legend" pp. 14-15, 22-23 #1-6
Native American Nation Presentation
Journals in History
Christopher Columbus pp. 60-61
"from Journal of the First Voyage to America" pp.62-64 #1-5
John Smith pp. 70-71
"from The General History of Virginia" pp. 72-77 #1-6
William Bradford pp. 70-71;
"from Of Plymouth Plantation" pp. 78-84 #1-6
Audio Supplement 8:15
Terms/Concepts
journalsubjectiveobjectivepurposeaudiencebiasembellishmentnarrative accountsfirsthand accountssecondhand accountsprimary sourcesecondary sourcereliability: reliable/unreliablepoint of viewposterity
John Smith Image Bank
A Nation is Born
Benjamin Franklin pp. 138-139
"from The Autobiography" pp. 140-145
"from Poor Richard's Almanack" pp. 146-148 #1-7
Colonial Newspapers pp. 152-153
Terms/Concepts
Aphorismautobiography
Rational/Irrational Language
Olaudah Equiano pp. 42-43;
"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" pp. 44-48 #1-6
Thomas Paine pp. 154-155;
"The Crisis, No. 1" pp. 160-162 #1-6
Thomas Jefferson pp. 154-155;
"The Declaration of Independence" pp. 156-159 #1-5
Frederick Douglass pp. 494-495;
"My Bondage, My Freedom" pp. 496-502 #1-6
My Bondage, My Freedom Audio Posted by Maggie Taylor
My Bondage, My Freedom Audio Posted by Mr. R. Chavez
Terms/Concepts
persuasionaudiencepamphletrational languageirrational languagecharged wordsslave narrativeemotional appealsautobiographytonepurposejargon
Civil Rights/February's Observance of African American History
John F. Kennedy pp.
Martin Luther King, Jr. pp.
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" pp.
Maya Angelou pp.
Terms/Concepts
Juneteenth
The Dawn of American Fiction
Washington Irving pp. 240-241
"The Devil and Tom Walker" pp. 242-252 #1-7
"The Devil and Tom Walker" text
"The Devil and Tom Walker" Audio and Text
Terms/Concepts
3rd person omniscient narrationcharacterizationcultural attitudes (satire)hypocrite
Shadows of the Imagination
Edgar Allen Poe pp. 306-307
"The Fall of the House of Usher" pp. 308-325 #1-5
"The Fall of the House of Usher" text
"The Fall of the House of Usher" Audio
"The Raven" pp. 326-330 #1-6
Terms/Concepts
single effectGothic literature
Harte
Bierce
Chopin
London