American Lit.

By KD3085

  • Native American/Creation

    The World on the Turtle's Back - 2 kids were born and their mother became the mother earth, and the boys became day and night.
    This Newly Created World
    I Have Killed the Deer

  • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

    By: Jonathan Edwards
    God was angry with everyone and nobody knew why. He was just angry all the time.

  • Poor Richard's Almanack

    Ben Franklin: used aphorisms

  • Speech in the Virginia Convention

    Patrick Henry
    He tries to convince them to go to war

  • The Crisis

    Thomas Paine
    They said to stand up against the British during the war

  • Olaudah Equiano

    From the interesting Narrative of the Life Of Olaudah Equiano - he was a slave and he was sent across seas and tortured. He was sold and separated from his sister.

  • The Autobiography of Ben Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin: About the life of Ben Franklin

  • Emerson

    Self-Reliance (1888) - that people deal with society and how we have society figure things out for us.
    Nature (1836) - people are naturally bad and

  • Thoreau

    Walden (1854) - the guy wanted to live simply in the woods and then left.
    Civil Disobedience (1849) - dealing with following the laws and not disobeying them.

  • The Crucible

    By: Arthur Miller
    There were witch trials in Salem and many people died because they were hanged and were a "witch". Many people were innocent and didn't confess to being a witch. John Proctor was hanged becasue of interacting with the devil and being a witch.