In case you've lost your handout, here's the review material for your English II final exam:
Below is fairly exhaustive list of the
literature we have covered this semester. Although I have tried to list
everything, it’s possible that I’ve left something off the list. You are
responsible for everything that has been assigned, whether we tested on the
material or not. Read through the shorter selections, study your notes, and
remember that the final constitutes 20% of your semester average.
Mark Twain
- Life and Times
- From The Autobiography of Mark Twain (658)
- From Life on the Mississippi (669)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Study Guide)
Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives
- Introduction to Unit (742-44)
- Willa Cather “A Wagner Matinee” (688)
- Emily Dickinson Author Study, including all poems (746-759)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” (765)
- Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour” (783)
The American Dream
- Historical Background (820)
- Carl Sandburg “Chicago”
- Edgar Lee Masters “Lucinda Matlock”
- Edwin Arlington Robinson “Richard Cory” & “Miniver Cheevy”
- Paul Laurence Dunbar “We Wear the Mask” & “Sympathy”
The Harlem
Renaissance
- Introduction to the period (916)
- Langston Hughes – Life and Times, “I, Too,” “Harlem” & “The Weary Blues”
- “When the Negro Was in Vogue” (932)
- James Weldon Johnson “My City”
- Countee Cullen “Any Human to Another”
- Zora Neale Hurston “How it Feels to be Colored Me” (and Walker’s comments)
Modernism & Post-War
- Introduction to the period (992)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
- Robert Frost – Life and Times, “Acquainted With the Night,” “Mending Wall,” “Out, Out—“
- Art Spiegelman - MAUS
- Ernest Hemingway “The End of Something” (1018)
- Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (Study Guide)