American Lit

By alannahaesoph

  • Native American/ Creation

    The World on the Turtle's Back-lady fell through the skyworld and created a world on the turtles back- the creation of new animals and good and bad in the world.
    This Newly Created World- Poem
    I Have Killed the Deer- Poem

  • Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God

    By Jonathan Edwards
    Sermon of how all of your actions are wrong an you are damned to hell because you sin too much. Basically saying you need to change all your ways to get into heaven

  • Poor Richard's Almanack

    Funny, witty life sayings

  • Speech in the Virginia Convention

    Patrick Henry

  • The Crisis

    Thomas Paine
    Fight against the Crisis. Need perserverance and fortitude. God is on their side

  • Olaudah Equiano

    Exerpt from his journal, telling his fears and stories about his experiences on the boat to the New World

  • Autobiography of Ben Franklin

    It's not about being perfect, it's about making yourself a better person in the process

  • Emerson

    Self- Reliance (1888)
    Nature (1836)

  • Thoreau

    Walden (1854)
    Civil Disobedience (1849)

  • Cruicible-Arthur Miller

    Play about girls doing something wrong and trying to lie to get out of it. Caused several deaths and accusations of witchery.