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”