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1984 by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
1984 Chapter-by-Chapter Materials
1984 Part 1, Chapter 1
1984: Afterword
1984: Appendix
1984: Part 1, Chapter 01
1984: Part 1, Chapter 02
1984: Part 1, Chapter 03
1984: Part 1, Chapter 04
1984: Part 1, Chapter 05
1984: Part 1, Chapter 06
1984: Part 1, Chapter 07
1984: Part 1, Chapter 08
1984: Part 2, Chapter 01
1984: Part 2, Chapter 02
1984: Part 2, Chapter 03
1984: Part 2, Chapter 04
1984: Part 2, Chapter 05
1984: Part 2, Chapter 06
1984: Part 2, Chapter 07
1984: Part 2, Chapter 08
1984: Part 2, Chapter 09
1984: Part 2, Chapter 10
1984: Part 3, Chapter 01
1984: Part 3, Chapter 02
1984: Part 3, Chapter 03
1984: Part 3, Chapter 04
1984: Part 3, Chapter 05
1984: Part 3, Chapter 06
1984 E-text Download
1984 Stop-Motion Project
1984 Stop-Motion Project Handouts
1984... Your Viewing Pleasure
The Goldstein™ Nominations
Ingsoc
Social Classes in George Orwell's 1984
2012 Election Materials
2012 Presidential Debate #1
Presidential Debate #2
Vice Presidential Debate 2012
AP Calendar
AP ENG Course Syllabus
AP ENG: 2014-15 Tentative Calendar
Columnists/Commentators/Editorial Writers
Columnist Analysis Assignment Info
Comparison/Contrast Essay
2016 Convention Speeches
Comparison/Contrast Essay Rubric
Debate
Ethos for Audience
Exercise: Transitions
Extended Definition
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Speeches
Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln--"The Gettysburg Address"--1863
Barabra Charline Jordan--DNC Key Note Speech--1976
Barack Obama Speech At Nelson Mandela Memorial--12/10/2013
Bob Uecker--Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech--2003
FDR "The Four Freedoms" Speech 1/6/1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt--First Inaugural Address--1933
John Fitzgerald Kennedy--Houston Ministerial Association Speech--1960
John Fitzgerald Kennedy--Inaugural Address--1961
Lyndon Baines Johnson--"We Shall Overcome"--1965
Malcolm X--"The Ballot or the Bullet"--1964
Martin Luther King, Jr.--"I Have a Dream"
Patrick Henry--"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"--1775
Richard Milhous Nixon--"Checkers" Speech--1952
Robert Emmet--"Speech from the Dock of the Court"
Ronald Wilson Reagan--Challenger Disaster Address--1986
Speech Analysis Assignment
Speech Analysis: Part I--Speech Choice/Annotations
Speech Analysis: Part II--Written Analysis
Speech Analysis: Part III--Oral Presentation
Stanton & Anthony Suffrage Speeches
The ERA
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Logical Fallacies
Component Fallacies
argumentum ad logicam (The Fallacy Fallacy)
argumentum ad temperantiam (The "Middle-Ground" Fallacy)
Dicto Simpliciter; Secundum Quid (Hasty Generalization or "Jumping to Conclusions" -- "According to that particular case")
False Extrapolation
False Extrapolation
Faulty Analogy
Faulty/False Analogy (Speaking Metaphorically or Hypothetically)
ignoratio elenchi (Irrelevant Conclusion)
non sequitur ("Does not follow" or "not in sequence")
petitio principii (Begging the Question) and circulus in probando (Circular Reasoning)
post hoc, ergo propter hoc (False Cause or "After this; therefore, because of this")
The "Either/Or" or "Black-and-White" Fallacy
The "Slippery Slope" Fallacy or The "Camel's Nose" Fallacy
Undistributed Middle Term
Fallacy of Accident
Misleading Statistic
Red Herring Argument
The Straw Figure Argument
tu quoque (Appeal to Hypocrisy -- "And you, too!")
Fallacies of Ambiguity
Amphiboly (Greek: "indeterminate")
Composition
Division
Equivocation
The Fallacy of Reification or "The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness"
Fallacies of Omission
argumentum ad speculum (Hypothesis Contrary to Fact)
argumentum and ignorantium (Appeal to a Lack of Evidence or "argument from ignorance")
Complex Question or The "Loaded Question"
The "Argument from the Negative" Fallacy
The "Stacking the Deck" Fallacy
The Meaningless Question
Fallacies of Relevance
ad antiquitatum or argumentum ad traditio ("Appeal to Tradition")
Argument from Adverse Consequences
Argument from Personal Incredulity
argumentum ad baculum (Appeal to Force or The "Might Makes Right" Fallacy)
argumentum ad hominem ("Poisoning the Well" or Personal Attack Fallacy)
argumentum ad misericordiam (Appeal to Emotion -- literally, "argument from pity")
argumentum ad populum ("Argument to the People")
argumentum ad verecundiam (Appeal to Improper Authority or Argument from Authority)
Genetic Fallacy
Guilt by Association Fallacy (and subcategories)
Self-Evident Truth
Abusive Ad Hominem
Circumstantial Ad Hominem
Guilt by Kinship
Guilt by Physical Association
Guilt by Verbal Association
Innocence by Association
The Bandwagon Approach
The Christian Approach or "Covering Oneself in the Cross"
The Patriotic Approach or "Draping Oneself in the Flag"
The Snob Approach
Occam's Razor
Memoir Project
Memoir Student Inquiry Project
Memoir Student Inquiry Pre-Approval Form
Non-Fiction Book Project with Book List
Novella
Objective Section #2
Personal Ethos Paper
Brainstorming: Assess Yourself
Ethos Analysis Essay Evaluation
Ethos Essay: Style Concerns
Personal Ethos Brainstorming Sheet
What "They" Look For . . .
Rhetorical Triangle (Overview)
Ethos
Ethos Analysis--"American Values"
The Lou Gehrig Farewell Speech
Logos
Pathos
The Image as Argument
Test Materials
Test-Prep Critique
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Introduction
The Definition of Rhetoric
The Dr. Evil "Quotation Syndrome"
The Six Traits of Quality Writing
The Wall of Amazing Amazingness
This and That
Vocabulary
Mid-Quarter 1 List
derived ethos
initial ethos
sponsorship
terminal ethos
Student-Created Rhetorical Vocab
Student-Created Rhetorical Vocab. Page
Writing Prompts
BHS Forensics
2011-12 BHS Forensics Season Schedule
Forensics Calendar
Who's Whom?
DeForest Invite Roster--Saturday--1/28/2012
Calendars
Classroom Library Catalogue
Books
"Easter 1916" and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
A Chaucer Reader edited by Charles Dunn
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clash of Kings (Book 2) by Goerge R.R. Martin
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Dance With Dragons (Book 5) by George R.R. Martin
A Death in Texas by Dina Temple-Raston
A Falcon Guide: Fishing the Beartooths by Pat Marcuson
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Feast for Crows (Book 4) by George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones (Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
A Gathering of Flowers by Joyce Carol Thomas
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pocket Full of Plays: Vintage Drama edited by David Madden
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
A Storm of Swords (Book 3) by George R.R. Martin
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Guin
Affluenza by John De Graaf, David Waan, Thomas Naylor, and Vicki Robin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Citizens are Soldiers by Ruth Fainlight and Allen Sillitoe
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All The President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
An Sionnach editor David Gardiner
Animal Farm by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Bad Chili by Joe Lansdale
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie
Book Check-Out Form
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
Candide by Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Castle Rackrent and Ennui by Maria Edgeworth
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Catching Fire (Book 2) by Suzanne Collins
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Cold Fire by Dean Koontz
Confessions of a Young Man: Avowals by George Moore
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
Cowboys and Aliens by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
Down By the River by Charles Bowden
El Bronx Remembered by Nicolasa Mohr
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
Epileptic by David B.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Extraordinary Uses for Extraordinary Things: 2317 Ways to Save Money and Time by Don Earnest
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Films
Flight by Sherman Alexie
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, Billy Budd edited by Signet
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Four Great Elizabethan Plays: Doctor Faustus, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shoemaker's Holiday, and Valpone edited by Bantam
Four Months to a Four-Hour Marathon by Dave Kuehls
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream by H.G. Bissinger
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80s (Gonzo Papers) by Hunter S. Thompson
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide by Champ Clark
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Give Your Heart to the Hawks by Winfred Blevins
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Gold Set Dancing by James Liddy
Great American Short Stories Edited by Watermill Press
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grey is the Color of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet Objective Test
Hamlet, Act I
Hamlet, Act II
Hamlet, Act III
Hamlet, Act IV
Hamlet, Act V
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by William Conrad
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Help! I'm Trapped in a Movie Star's Body by Todd Strasser
Him by ee cummings
Holes by Louis Sachar
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Insomnia by Stephen King
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar Documentary
Julius Caesar Objective Test
Julius Caesar Timeline
Julius Caesar--Socratic Seminar
Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays by Manuel Puig
Lamp at Midnight by Barrie Stavis
Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke
Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol
Library List Page
Library List Page
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Love is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscopic Pictorial, Supplement A by Melody and Julianne Guilbault
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Macbeth: No Fear Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare, illustrated by Ken Hoshine
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Marina Carr: Plays by Marina Carr
Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
Misery by Stephen King
Mockingjay (Book 3) by Suzanne Collins
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Mountain Wolf Woman by Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Elliot
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Native Son by Richard Wright
Night by Elie Wiesel
Night Shift by Stephen King
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
"To A Mouse" by Robert Burns
Omerta by Mario Puzo
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
On The Raft with Father Roseliep by James Liddy
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
"The Cloud Song" by Jess Klein
"Two Step" by the Dave Matthew's Band
"Who Says You Can't Go Home" by Bon Jovi
Adele: "Hometown Glory"
Bruce Springsteen's: "My Hometown"
Iris DeMent: "Our Town"
James Taylor's: "Our Town"
We Are the Kings: "This is Our Town"
Out of Left Field by Jeremy Jeffrey Lyons, Doug Lyons, and Bob Costas
Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions by Jim Haskins
Paper Towns by John Green
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time by Laurence Peter
Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest: The Anthology edited by David Stone and Stephen Young
Poets on Painters by Katie Geha and Travis Nichols
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen/Seth Grahame-Smith
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents
Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare, illustrated by Matt Wiegle
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Saturday, The Twelfth of October by Norma Fox-Mazer
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Secret Missions: Four True-Life Stories by Ellen Levine
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Selected Plays by Brian Friel
Selected Poems 1947-1995 by Alan Ginsberg
Selected Writings of Washington Irving by Washington Irving
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Septuagenarian Stew by Charles Bukowski
Seven Plays of Mystery and Suspense: With Writing Manual by Brodkin/Pearson
Sightings: Selected Works (2000-2005) by Shin Yu Pai
Sister Salty, Sister Sweet by Natalie Kring and Shannon Kring-Biro
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
So Cold a Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories by Karl Bohnak
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Spider by Patrick McGrath
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
That Special Place: New World Irish Stories by Terence Winch
That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by F.C. Ware
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The August Sleepwalker by Bei Dao
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Best of Robert Service by Robert Service
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
The Chronicles of Narnia (Complete Set) by C.S. Lewis
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Edward Irving Wortis)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Dark Half by Stephen King
The Diary of a Madman Nikolai Gogol
The Doctor's House by James Liddy
The Enormous Room by ee cummings
The Family Business by Adrian Kenny
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Did you read? Quiz 1
GoW--Chapter-By-Chapter Materials
Grapes Materials
Alabama: "Song of the South"
Bugs/Insects/Critters as They Appear in GoW
General Grapes Materials
GoW Quiz--Chapters 17-19
GoW Title/Intro Page
GoW--Chapter 01--"Time and Place"
Gow--Chapter 02--"My Dogs Was Pooped Out"
GoW--Chapter 03--"The Turtle"
GoW--Chapter 04--"On My Way Back Home"
GoW--Chapter 05--"The Bank Monster"
GoW--Chapter 06--"The Stubborn Dead"
GoW--Chapter 07--"Jalopies!"
GoW--Chapter 08--"The Citadel"
GoW--Chapter 09--"Decisions"
GoW--Chapter 10--"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"
GoW--Chapter 11--"Reflection"
GoW--Chapter 12--"Hard Travelin'"
GoW--Chapter 13--"Gone in a Flash"
GoW--Chapter 14--"I to We"
GoW--Chapter 15--"IITYWYBAD?"
GoW--Chapter 16--"The Revolt of Mother"
GoW--Chapter 17--"The Spirit of the Road"
GoW--Chapter 18--"Granma!"
GoW--Chapter 19--"The Three Great Cries of History"
GoW--Chapter 20--"Shot Through The Hand, and You're To Blame..."
GoW--Chapter 21--"The Paradox of History: Serfing"
GoW--Chapter 22--"The Commune"
GoW--Chapter 23--"Not the Land of Make-Believe"
GoW--Chapter 24--"Saturday Night Fever"
GoW--Chapter 25--"Growing Heavy for the Vintage"
GoW--Chapter 26--"The Crucifixion"
GoW--Chapter 27--"Street Smart"
GoW--Chapter 28--"The Ghost of Tom Joad"
GoW--Chapter 29--"Wrath"
GoW--Chapter 30--"Beauty"
Grapes of Wrath Interactive Map
Woody Guthrie
#10--GoW Quiz--Chapters 17-19
Al Joad
Chapter 1 Guided Questions
Chapter 2 Guided Questions
Chapter 3 Guided Questions
Chapter 4 Guided Questions
Connie Rivers
Goodyear Strike, 1936
GoW--Chapter 10 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 11 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 12 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 13 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 14 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 15 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 16 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 17 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 18 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 19 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 20 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 21 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 22 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 23 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 24 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 25 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 26 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 27 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 28 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 29 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 30 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 5 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 6 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 7 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 8 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 9 Guided Questions
Grampa Joad
Granma Joad
Jim Casy
Ma Joad
Muley Graves
Noah Joad
Pa Joad
Rose of Sharon Joad-Rivers--"Rosasharn"
Ruthie Joad
The Truck Driver
Tom Joad, Jr.
Uncle John Joad
Winfield Joad
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
The Green Book by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Hunger Games (Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark by Rhoda Blumberg
The Intricate Music: A Biography of John Steinbeck by Thomas Kiernan
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Late Great Me by Sandra Scoppettone
The Late Romances: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Book 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Book I) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Book 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Man by Irving Wallace
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to the Blues by David Evans
The Odyssey by Homer
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
The Other Side of Eden by Hugh Brody
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Plays of Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Precarious: The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña and QUIPOem by Cecilia Vicuña
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Serpent's Coil by Farley Mowat
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Social Contract and Discourse of the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Switching Well by Peni Griffin
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Walking Dead: Book One
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
The Woman Chaser by Charles Willeford
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Three Books by Robert Frost
Three Dramas in American Realism: Idiot's Delight, Street Scene, and The Time of Your Life by Joseph Mersand
Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"TKMb in Context"
"What Would You Do?"
Courage
Emmett Till
Freedom Riders (PBS, 2011)
Rodney King
The 100-Year-Old Wal-Mart Greeter Story...
TKMb Chapter-by-Chapter Audio and Materials
TKMb Script
Maps of Segregation in the Milwaukee Metro Area
TKMb--Chapter 01
TKMb--Chapter 02
TKMb--Chapter 03
TKMb--Chapter 04
TKMb--Chapter 05
TKMb--Chapter 06
TKMb--Chapter 07
TKMb--Chapter 08
TKMb--Chapter 09
TKMb--Chapter 10
TKMb--Chapter 11
TKMb--Chapter 12
TKMb--Chapter 13
TKMb--Chapter 14
TKMb--Chapter 15--"The Showdown"
TKMb--Chapter 16
TKMb--Chapter 17
TKMb--Chapter 18
TKMb--Chapter 19
TKMb--Chapter 20
TKMb--Chapter 21
TKMb--Chapter 22
TKMb--Chapter 23
TKMb--Chapter 24
TKMb--Chapter 25
TKMb--Chapter 26
TKMb--Chapter 27
TKMb--Chapter 28
TKMb--Chapter 29
TKMb--Chapter 30
TKMb--Chapter 31
TKMb--Study Guide #1
TKMb--Study Guide #2
TKMb--Study Guide #3
TKMb--Study Guide #4
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Twenty Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
Until the Celebration by Zilpha Keatley
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary (1939-1944) by Aranka Siegal
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden; or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Welcome to My Planet: Where English is Sometimes Spoken by Shannon Olson
What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Where to Find Gold in Oregon by Delos Toole
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Woman Holler Creek by Sandra Cisneros
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Drama
Fiction
Graphic Novels
Mr. Spagnolo's Favorites
Nonfiction
Poetry/Poets
Short Stories
"A Celebration of Grandfathers" by Rudolfo A. Anaya
"A Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
Satire
Real-Life Irony
Satire Rubric
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Sitemap
"A Piece of Steak" by Jack London
"A Predicament" by Edgar Allan Poe
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children" by Gabriel García Márquez
"A Visit of Charity" by Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
"A&P" by John Updike
"Berenice" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"apart" vs "a part" and "your" vs "you're"
"Are" Vs "Our"
1/15/2014
A Brillian Combination of Irony and Misuse of "Your"
Apostrophe Catastrophe
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Irony
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SPAG Semester II Test
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Henry David Thoreau
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"two moons"
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Stephen Crane
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"Song of Myself"
"The Wound Dresser"
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"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
Uncle Walt in Popular Culture
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English IV and V Vocabulary
English IV Course Syllabus
English IV: 2014-15 Calendar
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Lau-Tsu (老子)
The Tao Te Ching (道德經)
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
Malala Yousafzai Speaks of Non-Violence
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"Sonnet XVII" by Pablo Neruda
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Schoolhouse Rock
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Haiku Marketing Project
HumanMetrics: Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs-Myers Typology Test
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Swoosh: Inside Nike
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1984 by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
1984 Chapter-by-Chapter Materials
1984 Part 1, Chapter 1
1984: Afterword
1984: Appendix
1984: Part 1, Chapter 01
1984: Part 1, Chapter 02
1984: Part 1, Chapter 03
1984: Part 1, Chapter 04
1984: Part 1, Chapter 05
1984: Part 1, Chapter 06
1984: Part 1, Chapter 07
1984: Part 1, Chapter 08
1984: Part 2, Chapter 01
1984: Part 2, Chapter 02
1984: Part 2, Chapter 03
1984: Part 2, Chapter 04
1984: Part 2, Chapter 05
1984: Part 2, Chapter 06
1984: Part 2, Chapter 07
1984: Part 2, Chapter 08
1984: Part 2, Chapter 09
1984: Part 2, Chapter 10
1984: Part 3, Chapter 01
1984: Part 3, Chapter 02
1984: Part 3, Chapter 03
1984: Part 3, Chapter 04
1984: Part 3, Chapter 05
1984: Part 3, Chapter 06
1984 E-text Download
1984 Stop-Motion Project
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Social Classes in George Orwell's 1984
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2016 Convention Speeches
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Ethos for Audience
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Speeches
Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln--"The Gettysburg Address"--1863
Barabra Charline Jordan--DNC Key Note Speech--1976
Barack Obama Speech At Nelson Mandela Memorial--12/10/2013
Bob Uecker--Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech--2003
FDR "The Four Freedoms" Speech 1/6/1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt--First Inaugural Address--1933
John Fitzgerald Kennedy--Houston Ministerial Association Speech--1960
John Fitzgerald Kennedy--Inaugural Address--1961
Lyndon Baines Johnson--"We Shall Overcome"--1965
Malcolm X--"The Ballot or the Bullet"--1964
Martin Luther King, Jr.--"I Have a Dream"
Patrick Henry--"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"--1775
Richard Milhous Nixon--"Checkers" Speech--1952
Robert Emmet--"Speech from the Dock of the Court"
Ronald Wilson Reagan--Challenger Disaster Address--1986
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Speech Analysis: Part I--Speech Choice/Annotations
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Stanton & Anthony Suffrage Speeches
The ERA
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Logical Fallacies
Component Fallacies
argumentum ad logicam (The Fallacy Fallacy)
argumentum ad temperantiam (The "Middle-Ground" Fallacy)
Dicto Simpliciter; Secundum Quid (Hasty Generalization or "Jumping to Conclusions" -- "According to that particular case")
False Extrapolation
False Extrapolation
Faulty Analogy
Faulty/False Analogy (Speaking Metaphorically or Hypothetically)
ignoratio elenchi (Irrelevant Conclusion)
non sequitur ("Does not follow" or "not in sequence")
petitio principii (Begging the Question) and circulus in probando (Circular Reasoning)
post hoc, ergo propter hoc (False Cause or "After this; therefore, because of this")
The "Either/Or" or "Black-and-White" Fallacy
The "Slippery Slope" Fallacy or The "Camel's Nose" Fallacy
Undistributed Middle Term
Fallacy of Accident
Misleading Statistic
Red Herring Argument
The Straw Figure Argument
tu quoque (Appeal to Hypocrisy -- "And you, too!")
Fallacies of Ambiguity
Amphiboly (Greek: "indeterminate")
Composition
Division
Equivocation
The Fallacy of Reification or "The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness"
Fallacies of Omission
argumentum ad speculum (Hypothesis Contrary to Fact)
argumentum and ignorantium (Appeal to a Lack of Evidence or "argument from ignorance")
Complex Question or The "Loaded Question"
The "Argument from the Negative" Fallacy
The "Stacking the Deck" Fallacy
The Meaningless Question
Fallacies of Relevance
ad antiquitatum or argumentum ad traditio ("Appeal to Tradition")
Argument from Adverse Consequences
Argument from Personal Incredulity
argumentum ad baculum (Appeal to Force or The "Might Makes Right" Fallacy)
argumentum ad hominem ("Poisoning the Well" or Personal Attack Fallacy)
argumentum ad misericordiam (Appeal to Emotion -- literally, "argument from pity")
argumentum ad populum ("Argument to the People")
argumentum ad verecundiam (Appeal to Improper Authority or Argument from Authority)
Genetic Fallacy
Guilt by Association Fallacy (and subcategories)
Self-Evident Truth
Abusive Ad Hominem
Circumstantial Ad Hominem
Guilt by Kinship
Guilt by Physical Association
Guilt by Verbal Association
Innocence by Association
The Bandwagon Approach
The Christian Approach or "Covering Oneself in the Cross"
The Patriotic Approach or "Draping Oneself in the Flag"
The Snob Approach
Occam's Razor
Memoir Project
Memoir Student Inquiry Project
Memoir Student Inquiry Pre-Approval Form
Non-Fiction Book Project with Book List
Novella
Objective Section #2
Personal Ethos Paper
Brainstorming: Assess Yourself
Ethos Analysis Essay Evaluation
Ethos Essay: Style Concerns
Personal Ethos Brainstorming Sheet
What "They" Look For . . .
Rhetorical Triangle (Overview)
Ethos
Ethos Analysis--"American Values"
The Lou Gehrig Farewell Speech
Logos
Pathos
The Image as Argument
Test Materials
Test-Prep Critique
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Introduction
The Definition of Rhetoric
The Dr. Evil "Quotation Syndrome"
The Six Traits of Quality Writing
The Wall of Amazing Amazingness
This and That
Vocabulary
Mid-Quarter 1 List
derived ethos
initial ethos
sponsorship
terminal ethos
Student-Created Rhetorical Vocab
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BHS Forensics
2011-12 BHS Forensics Season Schedule
Forensics Calendar
Who's Whom?
DeForest Invite Roster--Saturday--1/28/2012
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Classroom Library Catalogue
Books
"Easter 1916" and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
A Chaucer Reader edited by Charles Dunn
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clash of Kings (Book 2) by Goerge R.R. Martin
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Dance With Dragons (Book 5) by George R.R. Martin
A Death in Texas by Dina Temple-Raston
A Falcon Guide: Fishing the Beartooths by Pat Marcuson
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Feast for Crows (Book 4) by George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones (Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
A Gathering of Flowers by Joyce Carol Thomas
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pocket Full of Plays: Vintage Drama edited by David Madden
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
A Storm of Swords (Book 3) by George R.R. Martin
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Guin
Affluenza by John De Graaf, David Waan, Thomas Naylor, and Vicki Robin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Citizens are Soldiers by Ruth Fainlight and Allen Sillitoe
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All The President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
An Sionnach editor David Gardiner
Animal Farm by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Bad Chili by Joe Lansdale
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie
Book Check-Out Form
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
Candide by Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Castle Rackrent and Ennui by Maria Edgeworth
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Catching Fire (Book 2) by Suzanne Collins
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Cold Fire by Dean Koontz
Confessions of a Young Man: Avowals by George Moore
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
Cowboys and Aliens by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
Down By the River by Charles Bowden
El Bronx Remembered by Nicolasa Mohr
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
Epileptic by David B.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Extraordinary Uses for Extraordinary Things: 2317 Ways to Save Money and Time by Don Earnest
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Films
Flight by Sherman Alexie
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, Billy Budd edited by Signet
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Four Great Elizabethan Plays: Doctor Faustus, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shoemaker's Holiday, and Valpone edited by Bantam
Four Months to a Four-Hour Marathon by Dave Kuehls
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream by H.G. Bissinger
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80s (Gonzo Papers) by Hunter S. Thompson
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide by Champ Clark
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Give Your Heart to the Hawks by Winfred Blevins
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Gold Set Dancing by James Liddy
Great American Short Stories Edited by Watermill Press
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grey is the Color of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet Objective Test
Hamlet, Act I
Hamlet, Act II
Hamlet, Act III
Hamlet, Act IV
Hamlet, Act V
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by William Conrad
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Help! I'm Trapped in a Movie Star's Body by Todd Strasser
Him by ee cummings
Holes by Louis Sachar
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Insomnia by Stephen King
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar Documentary
Julius Caesar Objective Test
Julius Caesar Timeline
Julius Caesar--Socratic Seminar
Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays by Manuel Puig
Lamp at Midnight by Barrie Stavis
Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke
Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol
Library List Page
Library List Page
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Love is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscopic Pictorial, Supplement A by Melody and Julianne Guilbault
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Macbeth: No Fear Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare, illustrated by Ken Hoshine
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Marina Carr: Plays by Marina Carr
Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
Misery by Stephen King
Mockingjay (Book 3) by Suzanne Collins
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Mountain Wolf Woman by Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Elliot
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Native Son by Richard Wright
Night by Elie Wiesel
Night Shift by Stephen King
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
"To A Mouse" by Robert Burns
Omerta by Mario Puzo
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
On The Raft with Father Roseliep by James Liddy
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
"The Cloud Song" by Jess Klein
"Two Step" by the Dave Matthew's Band
"Who Says You Can't Go Home" by Bon Jovi
Adele: "Hometown Glory"
Bruce Springsteen's: "My Hometown"
Iris DeMent: "Our Town"
James Taylor's: "Our Town"
We Are the Kings: "This is Our Town"
Out of Left Field by Jeremy Jeffrey Lyons, Doug Lyons, and Bob Costas
Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions by Jim Haskins
Paper Towns by John Green
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time by Laurence Peter
Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest: The Anthology edited by David Stone and Stephen Young
Poets on Painters by Katie Geha and Travis Nichols
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen/Seth Grahame-Smith
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents
Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare, illustrated by Matt Wiegle
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Saturday, The Twelfth of October by Norma Fox-Mazer
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Secret Missions: Four True-Life Stories by Ellen Levine
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Selected Plays by Brian Friel
Selected Poems 1947-1995 by Alan Ginsberg
Selected Writings of Washington Irving by Washington Irving
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Septuagenarian Stew by Charles Bukowski
Seven Plays of Mystery and Suspense: With Writing Manual by Brodkin/Pearson
Sightings: Selected Works (2000-2005) by Shin Yu Pai
Sister Salty, Sister Sweet by Natalie Kring and Shannon Kring-Biro
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
So Cold a Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories by Karl Bohnak
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Spider by Patrick McGrath
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
That Special Place: New World Irish Stories by Terence Winch
That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by F.C. Ware
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The August Sleepwalker by Bei Dao
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Best of Robert Service by Robert Service
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
The Chronicles of Narnia (Complete Set) by C.S. Lewis
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Edward Irving Wortis)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Dark Half by Stephen King
The Diary of a Madman Nikolai Gogol
The Doctor's House by James Liddy
The Enormous Room by ee cummings
The Family Business by Adrian Kenny
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Did you read? Quiz 1
GoW--Chapter-By-Chapter Materials
Grapes Materials
Alabama: "Song of the South"
Bugs/Insects/Critters as They Appear in GoW
General Grapes Materials
GoW Quiz--Chapters 17-19
GoW Title/Intro Page
GoW--Chapter 01--"Time and Place"
Gow--Chapter 02--"My Dogs Was Pooped Out"
GoW--Chapter 03--"The Turtle"
GoW--Chapter 04--"On My Way Back Home"
GoW--Chapter 05--"The Bank Monster"
GoW--Chapter 06--"The Stubborn Dead"
GoW--Chapter 07--"Jalopies!"
GoW--Chapter 08--"The Citadel"
GoW--Chapter 09--"Decisions"
GoW--Chapter 10--"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"
GoW--Chapter 11--"Reflection"
GoW--Chapter 12--"Hard Travelin'"
GoW--Chapter 13--"Gone in a Flash"
GoW--Chapter 14--"I to We"
GoW--Chapter 15--"IITYWYBAD?"
GoW--Chapter 16--"The Revolt of Mother"
GoW--Chapter 17--"The Spirit of the Road"
GoW--Chapter 18--"Granma!"
GoW--Chapter 19--"The Three Great Cries of History"
GoW--Chapter 20--"Shot Through The Hand, and You're To Blame..."
GoW--Chapter 21--"The Paradox of History: Serfing"
GoW--Chapter 22--"The Commune"
GoW--Chapter 23--"Not the Land of Make-Believe"
GoW--Chapter 24--"Saturday Night Fever"
GoW--Chapter 25--"Growing Heavy for the Vintage"
GoW--Chapter 26--"The Crucifixion"
GoW--Chapter 27--"Street Smart"
GoW--Chapter 28--"The Ghost of Tom Joad"
GoW--Chapter 29--"Wrath"
GoW--Chapter 30--"Beauty"
Grapes of Wrath Interactive Map
Woody Guthrie
#10--GoW Quiz--Chapters 17-19
Al Joad
Chapter 1 Guided Questions
Chapter 2 Guided Questions
Chapter 3 Guided Questions
Chapter 4 Guided Questions
Connie Rivers
Goodyear Strike, 1936
GoW--Chapter 10 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 11 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 12 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 13 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 14 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 15 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 16 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 17 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 18 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 19 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 20 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 21 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 22 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 23 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 24 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 25 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 26 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 27 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 28 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 29 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 30 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 5 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 6 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 7 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 8 Guided Questions
GoW--Chapter 9 Guided Questions
Grampa Joad
Granma Joad
Jim Casy
Ma Joad
Muley Graves
Noah Joad
Pa Joad
Rose of Sharon Joad-Rivers--"Rosasharn"
Ruthie Joad
The Truck Driver
Tom Joad, Jr.
Uncle John Joad
Winfield Joad
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
The Green Book by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
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