Literature-From+the+Textbook

Part 1-Voices for Freedom

1. The Autobiography (Ben Franklin)

2. 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