American Lit.

  • Native American/Creation

    The World on the Turtle's Back- a lady fell from the sky and she had a daughter. the daghter had twins and then died from that. her body made plants and other living necessities. then the grandmother died and made the rest of the plants.

    This Newly Created World
    I Have Killed the Deer
  • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

    By Jonathan Edwards
    It talks about how God is angry at everyone for no reason all the time. He is always angry at the people and is never happy with anything they do. But of course it is all an opinion.
  • Poor Richard's ALmanack

    Life lessons written by Ben Franklin
  • Speech in the Virginia Convention

    Convince people why to go to war
  • The Crisis: Thomas Paine

  • Olaudah Equiano

    He was captured as a slave and was treated badly because of how the ships were. He was treated better than some for some reason.
  • The Autobiography of Ben Franklin

  • Emerson

    Self Reliance(1888)- about how we depend on society to show how should run our own lives too much
    Nature(1836)- how the world is a beautigul place and helps us guide our life
  • Thoreau

    Walden(1854)- how he wanted to live in the woods and listen to the message that the world had/sent to him
    Civil Disobedience(1849)- how they didnt obey they laws or listen to them
  • Huckleberry Finn

    About a slave and a boy who are running away. Th eboy from his father and the slave from his keeper.
  • The Crucible- By Arthur Miller

    They believed in witchcraft
    Witches were to be guilty until proven innocent or they were killed
    Lots of accusations were made to try and get the balme off of who it was pointed at
    Would you pleade guilty to keep from dying or die for something you didn't do?