American Lit Required Materials

The following books will be required for the American Literature class. ISBNs are provided for ease of finding editions. Students will need to provide their own copies, and will be given several weeks' notice regarding any TBD novels.

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe. ISBN 13: 978-1593081218

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald. ISBN 13: 979-8745274824 

The Chosen - Chaim Potok. ISBN 13: 978-0449213445

TBD: students will be broken into literature circles which will choose a novel from a list provided by the teacher in the spring.

1776 - David McCullough, ISBN 13: 978-0743226721

The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation - ed. Diave Ravitch, revised 2nd edition. ISBN 13: 978-0062737335

Students will choose one of the following memoirs:

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs

Up from Slavery - Booker T Washington