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Sophomores: Midterm Review


The midterm will be objective, with multiple choice and matching sections.  The exam will be longer than normal because you have more time – an hour and a half, as opposed to fifty minutes. 

Note that although the midterm could not possibly include everything we’ve covered so far, it will be comprehensive. Below is a list of everything we have read; however, the notes include the introductions to periods, as well as biographical information.

Summer Reading – Red Badge of Courage

Early American
  • Native American Myth
  • “The World on the Turtle’s Back”
  • “Coyote and Buffalo,” & “Fox and Coyote and Whale”
  • Non-Fiction – Historical Narrative
  • La Relacion – Cabeza de Vaca
  • The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano
 The Puritans
  • Of Plymouth Plantation – Bradford
  • Anne Bradstreet “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “Upon The Burning of Our House”
  • The Examination of Sarah Good
  • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God – Jonathan Edwards
  • THE CRUCIBLE – Arthur Miller
American Revolution
  • Persuasive Rhetoric
  • Patrick Henry “Speech to the Virginia Convention”
  • Thomas Jefferson “Declaration of Independence”
  • Letters – Phyllis Wheatley, Jane Adams
  • “What Is an American?” – Jean de Crevecouer
  • Benjamin Franklin – Almanac, Virtues
  • “Lecture to a Missionary” – Red Jacket
American Romanticism
  • Longfellow  - “Psalm of Life”
  • Emerson – “Self-Reliance”
  • Thoreau – “Civil Disobedience,” Walden
  • Walt Whitman – “O Captain, My Captain,” “I Hear America Singing,” “I Sit and Look Out,” Song of Myself
Gothic Literature
  • Irving –  “The Devil and Tom Walker” (Faustian)
  • Edgar Allan Poe – “The Masque of the Red Death”
  • Nathanial Hawthorne – “Young Goodman Brown”
  • Shirley Jackson – “The Lottery”
Ambrose Bierce – “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

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