World Geography and Cultures © 2008Unit 2:
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Memory by Victor Hernandez Cruz Address
upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature by William Faulkner Afro-American
Fragment by Langston Hughes Ambush
by Tim O'Brien from
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard American
History by Judith Ortiz Cofer And
Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth And
Sarah Laughed by Joanne Greenberg Anecdote
of the Jar by Wallace Stevens Any
Human to Another by Countee Cullen anyone
lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings Appetizer
by Robert H. Abel apprenticeship
1978 by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon Ars
Poetica by Archibald MacLeish As
It Is with Strangers by Susan Beth Pfeffer from
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin The
Base Stealer by Robert Francis The
Bass, the River and Shelia Mant by W. D. Wetherell Beat!
Beat! Drums by Walt Whitman The
Beautiful Changes by Richard Wilbur Because
I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson Before
the End of Summer by Grant Moss Jr. from
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by William Hauptman Birches
by Robert Frost from
Black Boy by Richard Wright A
black man talks of reaping by Arna Bontemps The
Black Snake by Mary Oliver A
Blessing by James Wright Blues
Ain't No Mockin Bird by Toni Cade Bambara Bread
by Margaret Atwood Breakfast
by John Steinbeck The
Bridal Party by F. Scott Fitzgerald A
Bus Along St. Clair: December by Margaret Atwood The
Bustle in a House by Emily Dickinson The
Californian's Tale by Mark Twain The
Car We Had to Push by James Thurber Catch
the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain The
Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes Chee's
Daughter by Juanita Platero and Siyowin Miller Chicago
by Carl Sandburg The
Child is the Master by Robert Horn Choice:
A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Alice Walker A
Christmas Memory by Truman Capote from
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Concord
Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson Constantly
risking absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Contents
of the Dead Man's Pocket by Jack Finney Coyote
Finishes His Work retold by Barry Lopez from
The Crisis, No. 1 by Thomas Paine The
Crucible by Arthur Miller Day
of the Butterfly by Alice Munro The
Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner by Randall Jarrell The
Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost Declaration
of Independence by Thomas Jefferson Defining
the Grateful Gesture by Yvonne Sapia Delicious
Death by Alma Luz Villanueva Desmet,
Idaho, March 1969 by Janet Campbell Hale The
Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving Dichos
by Américo Paredes Dirge
Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay Douglass
by Paul Laurence Dunbar from
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston Embroidering:
A Response to "Somnad" by Carl Larsson by Rita Magdaleno Emily
Dickinson by Lucha Corpi Ex-Basketball
Player by John Updike The
Explorer by Gwendolyn Brooks from
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston Father's
Bedroom by Robert Lowell February
by Ralph Ellison Fiddler
Jones by Edgar Lee Masters Field
Trip by Naomi Shihab Nye First
lesson by Phillip Booth The
First Snow-Fall by James Russell Lowell The
Fish by Elizabeth Bishop Fishing
by Joy Harjo The
Flat of the Land by Diana García Follow
the Drinking Gourd by Anonymous For
Georgia O'Keeffe by Pat Mora For
Poets by Al Young Frederick
Douglass by Robert Hayden Freeway
280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes From
A Cat's Garden of Verses by Henry Beard The
Funeral by Gordon Parks Game
by Donald Barthelme Geometry
by Rita Dove The
Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln The
Gift of the Magi by O. Henry The
Glory of the Day Was in Her Face by James Weldon Johnson Go
Down, Moses by Anonymous "Good
Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning" by Alice Walker Heaven
by Cathy Song from
His Promised Land by John P. Parker The
Horned Toad by Gerald Haslam Horses
Graze by Gwendolyn Brooks How
I Changed the War and Won the Game by Mary Helen Ponce How
The World Was Made retold by James Mooney I
Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman I
heard a Fly buzz when I died by Emily Dickinson I
Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid by Alma Luz Villanueva I
Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Joseph I,
Too by Langston Hughes If
We Must Die by Claude McKay If
you were coming the in the Fall by Emily Dickinson In
a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound In
Another Country by Ernest Hemingway from
The Iroquois Constitution, by Dekanawida I've
Seen the Promised Land by Martin Luther King Jr. Jazz
Fantasia by Carl Sandburg The
Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter Kipling
and I by Jesus Colon from
Kubota by Garrett Hongo from
La Relación by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca The
Leap by Louisa Erdrich let
my spirit fly in time by Sandra Maria Esteves Let
Us Examine the Facts by Corn Tassel Let's
Sweat by Nikki Giovanni Letter
to Her Daughter from the New and Unfinished White House by Abigail Adams Letters
to His Family by Robert E. Lee from
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain The
Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor Lineage
by Margaret Walker Living
Well. Living Good. by Maya Angelou Love
Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink by Edna St. Vincent Millay The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot Lucinda
Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters Lullaby
by Leslie Marmon Silko The
Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud Making
a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye Marked
by Carmen Tafolla from
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut from
A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich The
Meadow Mouse by Theodore Roethke Mending
Wall by Robert Frost The
Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne Miniver
Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson The
Miracle Worker by William Gibson Mirror
by Sylvia Plath Miss
Rosie by Lucille Clifton Most
Satisfied by Snow by Diana Chang Mrs.
James by Alice Childress Much
Madness is divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson Mushrooms
by Margaret Atwood from
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass My
City by James Weldon Johnson My
life closed twice before its close by Emily Dickinson My
Mother Pieced Quilts by Teresa Palomo Acosta The
Names of Women by Louise Erdrich Naming
Myself by Barbara Kingsolver from
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by
Mary Rowlandson from
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson The
Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes from
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat Night
Clouds by Amy Lowell A
Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman November
Cotton Flower by Jean Toomer An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Of
Dry Goods and Black Bow Ties by Yoshiko Uchida from
Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford Offer
of Help by Canassatego Old
Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes from
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion Only
Daughter by Sandra Cisneros The
Open Boat by Stephen Crane The
Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte A
Pact by Ezra Pound Pain—has
an Element of Blank— by Emily Dickinson The
Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry Penelope
by Dorothy Parker Picture
Bride by Cathy Song Poetry
by Marianne Moore A
Poet's Job by Alma Luz Villanueva from
Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin The
Portrait by Tomás Rivera Prayer
to the Pacific by Leslie Marmon Silko Prime
Time by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Purchase
by Naomi Long Madgett Rain
in My Heart by Edgar Lee Masters Rain
Music by Longhang Nguyen The
Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Reapers
by Jean Toomer Recuerdo
by Edna St. Vincent Millay The
Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams Remember
by Joy Harjo Richard
Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson Riding
the Elevator into the Sky by Anne Sexton The
Road Not Taken by Robert Frost The
Rockpile by James Baldwin A
Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Rules
of the Game by Amy Tan Salvador
Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros The
Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst Se
me enchina el cuerpo al oír tu cuento . . . by Norma Elia Cantú Second
Tree from the Corner The by E. B. White The
Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber from
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Shiloh
by Herman Melville A
Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim by Walt Whitman Simile
by N. Scott Momaday from
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards The
Sky Tree retold by Joseph Bruchac Snow
by Julia Alvarez Soldiers
of the Republic by Dorothy Parker Son
by John Updike Song
For My Name by Linda Hogan from
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman from
Songs of Gold Mountain by Anonymous Sonnet
to a Negro in Harlem by Helene Johnson The
Soul selects her own society by Emily Dickinson A
Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury The
Space by Gary Soto Speaking
by Simon J. Ortiz Speech
to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry Spring
over the City by Anne Hébert; translated by Kathleen Weaver Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Storm
Ending by Jean Toomer The
Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin from
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller from
Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr. Success
is counted sweetest by Emily Dickinson Sweet
Potato Pie by Eugenia Collier A
Swimming Lesson by Jewelle L. Gomez Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot by Anonymous Sympathy
by Paul Laurence Dunbar Thanatopsis
by William Cullen Bryant That
Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump by Sherman Alexie There's
a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson This
Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams This
is my letter to the World by Emily Dickinson Those
Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Thoughts
on the African-American Novel by Toni Morrison The
Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To
a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant To
Build a Fire by Jack London To
His Excellency, General Washington by Phyllis Wheatley To
my Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet To
Satch by Samuel Allen Traveling
Through the Dark by William Stafford from
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck The
Tropics in New York by Claude McKay The
Tucson Zoo by Lewis Thomas Two
Kinds by Amy Tan The
United States vs. Susan B. Anthony by Margaret Truman Upon
the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet The
Vision Quest told by Lame Deer Visit
to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal A
Wagner Matinée by Willa Cather from
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Walking
by Linda Hogan Wanderer
by Joan Fallert from
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday We
Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar Weaver
by Sandra Maria Esteves The
Welder by Cherrie Moraga What
Is and Ain't Grammatical by Dave Barry What
We Believe by Anita Endrezze When
I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman Where
the Girl Rescued Her Brother by Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross A
White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett who
are you, little i by E. E. Cummings Winter
Night by Kay Boyle With
All Flags Flying by Anne Tyler from
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston The
World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be by Nikki Giovanni A
Worn Path by Eudora Welty |