The American Vision: Modern Times, California Edition

Unit 1: A Nation is Born

Literature Connections

And Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antigone by Sophocles
At Last It's Come by Sulpicia
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Before the End of Summer by Grant Moss Jr.
from Beowulf by Anonymous
Better to Live, Licinius by Horace
from Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by William Hauptman
Bisclavret: The Lay of the Werewolf by Marie de France
Bishop Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe by Liliana Heker
from The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain
from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Constant Lover by Sir John Suckling
from The Crisis, No. 1 by Thomas Paine
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
The Dog and the Wolf by Aesop
Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by The Venerable Bede
Edju and the Two Friends translated by Paul Radin
from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
from Everyman by Anonymous
Eve's Apology by Aemilia Lanyer
The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Anonymous
For My Mother Said by Sappho
from Genesis from the King James Bible
Go Down, Moses by Anonymous
from His Promised Land by John P. Parker
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
from The Immortality of Writers translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
In My Eyes He Matches the Gods by Sappho
from The Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
I Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Joseph
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
from Le Morte d' Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Letter to Her Daughter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Letters to His Family by Robert E. Lee
Life in Benin from Equiano's Travels by Olaudah Equiano
from the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Lineage by Margaret Walker
The Long Exile by Leo Tolstoy
Love Does Not Know Secrets translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadhmy
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Meditation 17 by John Donne
The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Most Beautiful of All the Stars by Sappho
The Names of Women by Louise Erdrich
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
from Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Of Studies by Sir Francis Bacon
Offer of Help by Canassatego
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
from Omeros by Derek Walcott
On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn
On Monsieur's Departure by Elizabeth I
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Poems of Catullus by Catullus
from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
Prayer to the Pacific by Leslie Marmon Silko
Psalm 23 from the King James Bible
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
Shiloh by Herman Melville
Some Say Thronging Cavalry by Sappho
from the Song of Roland translated by Frederick Goldin
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
from Songs of a Gold Mountain by Anonymous
Sonnet 239 by Michelangelo
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid
Sudden Moods translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadhmy
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by Anonymous
from the Tanakh, Genesis 6-9: The Flood from the King James Bible
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
To Build a Fire by Jack London
To His Excellency, General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
The Trojans by Constantine Cavafy
Two Countries by José Martí
The United States vs. Susan B. Anthony by Margaret Truman
Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
A Wagner Matinée by Willa Cather
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Where Are Those Songs? by Micere Githae Mugo
Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother by Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross
Whoso List to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? by Sir John Suckling