Grade+10,+Unit+4

== = = =UNIT 4 : A TROUBLED YOUNG NATION: REALISM 1865-1915= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is an American?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =FOLK TALES:= = = =NOVELS:= = = =SHORT STORIES:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:= = = =ESSAYS:= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =MUSIC (SPIRITUALS):= = = =ART:= = = =MEDIA:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:=
 * =//United States in Literature//=
 * = //Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation// (folklore collection) by Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus)=
 * = //Daisy Miller //by Henry James =
 * = //Ethan Frome// by Edith Wharton =
 * = //My Antonia// by Willa Cather =
 * = //Sister Carrie// by Theodore Dreiser =
 * = //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// by Mark Twain (EA) =
 * = //The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man// by James Weldon Johnson =
 * = //The Awakening// by Kate Chopin =
 * = //The Call of the Wild// by Jack London =
 * = //The Killer Angels// by Michael Shaara =
 * = //The Red Badge of Courage// by Stephen Crane =
 * = "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton =
 * = "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain (EA) =
 * = "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin =
 * = "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman =
 * = "What Stumped the Bluejays" by Mark Twain (EA) =
 * = //Life and Times of Frederick Douglass//, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass (EA) (excerpts) =
 * = //The Narrative of Sojourner Truth// by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert =
 * =//Twenty Years at Hull House// by Jane Addams (selections)=
 * = //Up From Slavery: An Autobiography// by Booker T. Washington =
 * = "'I Had Barbara': Women's Ties and Wharton's 'Roman Fever'" by Rachel Bowlby =
 * = "'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Women's Discourse" by Karen Ford =
 * = "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper?" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman =
 * =//Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West// by Dee Brown (E)=
 * = "Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848" =
 * = "[|Letter to Albert G. Hodges]" (4 April, 1864) by Abraham Lincoln (EA) =
 * =//Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn// by Evan S. Connell (E)=
 * ="The Higher Education of Women" (from //A Voice from the South//) by Anna Julia Cooper=
 * =//What They Fought For, 1861-1865// by James M. McPherson=
 * ="House Divided Speech" (16 June, 1858, Springfield, Illinois) by Abraham Lincoln (EA)=
 * ="Aint' I a Woman?" (1851, speech) by Sojourner Truth=
 * ="I Will Fight No More Forever" (October 5, 1877) by Chief Joseph the Younger of the Nez Perce Nation=
 * ="The Gettysburg Address" (delivered 19 November 1863) by Abraham Lincoln (E)=
 * ="All God‘s Children Had Wings" (Traditional)=
 * ="Go Down, Moses" (Traditional)=
 * ="I Thank God I‘m Free at Last" (Traditional)=
 * = "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson (E) =
 * ="Promises of Freedom" (Traditional)=
 * ="Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional)=
 * =Winslow Homer, //A Visit from the Old Mistress// (1876)=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * =Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon, dir.//, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narrative//s (2003)=
 * =The American Dream essay planning worksheet=
 * =Compare and Contrast authors wrksheet=
 * =Prepositional Phrases=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =Abolition=
 * =American Dream=
 * =Assimilation=
 * =Autobiography=
 * =Biography=
 * =Determinism=
 * =Melting pot=
 * =Mood=
 * =Naturalism=
 * =Realism=
 * =Regionalism=
 * =Satire=

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