Literature-From+the+Textbook

[|Part 1: Voices for Freedom] [|Part 2: Focus on Literary Forms: Speeches] [|Part 3: Defining an American]

 Part 1-Voices for Freedom
 * 1) //from// The Autobiography (Ben Franklin)
 * 2) //from// Poor Richard's Almanack (Ben Franklin)
 * 3) All the News That's Fit to Print: Colonial Newspapers
 * 4) The Declaration of Independence {Thomas Jefferson)
 * 5) //from// The Crisis, Number 1 (Thomas Paine)
 * 6) An Hymn to the Evening (Phillis Wheatley)
 * 7) To His Excellency, General Washington (Phillis Wheatley)
 * 8) //from// Letter From Birmingham City Jail (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

 Part 2-Focus on Literary Forms: Speeches
 * 1) Speech in the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry)
 * 2) Speech inthe Convention (Benjamin Franklin)
 * 3) Inaugural Address (John F. Kennedy)

 Part 3-Defining an American >
 * 1) Letter to Her Daughter from the New White House (Abigail Adams)
 * 2) //from// Letters from an American Farmer (Michel-Guillaume Jeande Crèvecoeur)
 * 3) //from// Roots