American Literature Summer Reading List Summer 2014 Belmont High School English Department The following list was complied from the recommendations of the Belmont High School English department and contains some of the best-known works of American literature. Each book addresses the American Dream and/or American identities. All entering 11th graders must read at least one book from the list below over the summer. Students entering English 11 Honors must read at least one contemporary AND one classic
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The Old Man - A deaf man who likes to drink at the café late into the night. The old man likes the shadows of the leaves on the well-lit café terrace. Rumor has it that he tried to hang himself‚ he was once married‚ he has a lot of money‚ and his niece takes care of him. He often gets drunk at the café and leaves without paying. The old man is a regular in the café‚ and though he sometimes forgets to pay‚ he’s generally a good customer. We mostly learn about the old man from the conversation of
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Is Literature the Expression of the Human Condition Oh yes‚ is literature the expression of the human condition or is it not? Yes‚ literature is and for only one reason‚ Normans Conquest 1066. But also literature is recorders of history‚ recordings of time. Literature also a sequence of words‚ it can consist of all meanings‚ expressing the human condition‚ emotions‚ recorders‚ it defines life. The human condition is experiences of being human in a social‚ cultural‚ and personal context‚ it’s
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I. Seeing Red I. The “Red Scare” of 1919-20 resulted in Attorney General. Mitchell Palmer using a series of raids to round up and arrest about 6‚000 suspected Communists. A. The Red Scare severely cut back free speech for a period‚ since the hysteria caused many people to want to eliminate any Communists and their ideas. 1. Some states made it illegal to merely advocate the violent overthrow of government for social change. 2. In this time period‚ anti-foreignism
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Chapter 32 American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1919-1929 Seeing Red Fear of Russia ran high even after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917‚ which spawned a communist party in America. The "red scare" of 1919-1920 resulted in a nationwide crusade against those whose Americanism was suspect. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was chosen to round up immigrants who were in question. In 1919-1920‚ a number of states passed criminal syndicalism laws that made the advocacy of violence to secure
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Mc-Graw Hill‚ 2011. Print. “Ohio High School Shooting: Student Suspect to Be Tried as Adult.” abc NEWS. abc NEWS. Feb. 29‚ 2012. Web. March 1‚ 2012 http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-high-school-shooting-prosecutors-tj-lane-adult/story?id=15814303&page=2#.T1YmwvGPXuh “Ohio School Shooting: Classes Resume At Chadon Day After T.J Lane Charged With Aggravated Murder.” Huffington Post. Huffington Post. March 2‚ 2012. Web. March 2‚ 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/ohio-school-shooting-classes-resume_n_1315841
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MODERNISM (1901-1945) Modernism‚ in its broadest definition‚ is modern thought‚ character‚ or practice. More specifically‚ the term describes a set of cultural tendencies and movements‚ originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art‚ architecture‚ literature‚ religious faith‚ social organization and daily life
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France E. W. Harper’s message for her African American female readers is that women can happily live without men and that love isn’t the only goal in life. In the poems “A Double Standard” and “Two Offers” both told a story about a girl that was charmed by a man that didn’t truly love them. At first everything was love and happiness until the man showed their true colors‚ Harper expressed in “A Double Standard”‚ “Can you blame me that I did not see Beneath his burning kiss The serpent’s wiles‚ nor
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You could write an essay about what Ray Bradbury is saying about mob mentality in "All Summer and a Day". "All Summer in a Day" shows Margot‚ the quiet‚ invisible outcast of the class‚ being singled out by the rest of her classmates‚ after telling everyone the sun would come out. The sun never comes out on Venus‚ making this an extraordinary deal. The deal was too much for the class‚ and the students display a term called "mob mentality." Mob mentality is‚ unfortunately‚ very common within society
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American Literature: Langston Hughes´"I ‚too"‚ ZORA NEALE HURSTON´s “The Gilded Six Bits” and EDITH WHARTON´s“Roman Fever” Unit 5 :Exercises:Test yourself On Langston Hughes: “I‚Too” a) The artists of the Harlem Renaissance developed a sense of race pride and heritage in their search for newness of theme and form. They looked to a collective primitive past present still in linguistic or musical expressions. Hughes made of straightforwardness and simplicity an aesthetic
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