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Beowulf--Traditional Oral *The epic will be used to introduced rhetorical devices, figurative
language, and “the rousing call to action.”
“Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” Patrick Henry
“The Gettysburg Address” Abraham Lincoln
“Speech to the Troops at Tillbury” Queen Elizabeth I
“Speech to the Women’s National Press Club” Clare Boothe Luce
“What Libraries Mean to the Nation” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Farewell to Baseball” Lou Gehrig
“On Free Speech” Erica Jong
“Address to the Nation on the Challenger” Ronald Reagan
“Women’s Rights to the Suffrage” Susan B. Anthony
“The American Promise” Lyndon B. Johnson
“The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination” -J.K. Rowling
“This is Water” David Foster Wallace
Excerpt from Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
The Onion Press Release “Magna Soles”
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
AP Lang and Comp Free Response Essay 2010 Ques. 3
“A Liberating Curriculum” by Roberta Borkat
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
“Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope
Satires I & XVIII by Horace
“Old Faithful” by David Sedaris
The Onion
“Huck at 100” by Leo Marx
“Memory Laps” by David Sedaris
“The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank” by Bruno Bettelheim
“Is Hunting Ethical” by Anne S. Causey
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” by Francine Prose
“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie
“Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris
From “Education” by R.W. Emerson
“Best in Class” by Margaret Talbot
“Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain
“Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson
“My Zombie, Myself” by Chuck Klosterman
“Celebrity Bodies” by Daniel Harris
