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A book that’s built for you and your students.
Flexible and innovative, American Literature & Rhetoric provides everything you need to teach your course. Combining reading and writing instruction to build essential skills in its four opening chapters and a unique anthology you need to keep students engaged in Chapters 5-10, this book makes it easy to teach chronologically, thematically, or by genre.
A unique anthology connects issues of the past to the present.
A book that’s built for you and your students.
Flexible and innovative, American Literature & Rhetoric provides everything you need to teach your course. Combining reading and writing instruction to build essential skills in its four opening chapters and a unique anthology you need to keep students engaged in Chapters 5-10, this book makes it easy to teach chronologically, thematically, or by genre.
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In researching this book, we surveyed hundreds of American literature teachers about how you teach the course and what you want to see in an American literature book. Here is what you told us.
Flexible and innovative, American Literature & Rhetoric provides everything you need to teach your course. Combining reading and writing instruction to build essential skills in its four opening chapters and a unique anthology you need to keep students engaged in Chapters 5–10, this book makes it easy to teach chronologically, thematically, or by genre.
Opening chapters introduce key reading and writing skills for the American literature course.
Chapters 1–4 teach the reading and writing skills key to success in the American literature course. With equal attention to nonfiction and literature, these chapters provide scaffolded step-by-step instruction, activities, tips for revising, and model student essays. Each chapter culminates with an essay assignment that lets students apply what they have learned.
Anthology chapters revolutionize the American literature course.
The anthology chapters provide a unique combination of chronological and thematic approaches to American literature. They are organized to work for you regardless of how you approach teaching this course.
Chapter 5: Starting with the present to frame the past.
The first readings chapter of the book is Chapter 5: Redefining America (2001 to the Present). Beginning with contemporary texts immediately engages students with timeless themes and enduring issues — and also helps teachers solve the age-old problem of how to stop American literature from being stuck in the past.
A focus on the themes that define America.
All of the readings in the book connect to at least one of eight fundamental themes in American literature:
Talkbacks: Highlighting voices and ideas that matter.
The diverse readings and innovative structure of American Literature & Rhetoric show students how the literature of the past connects to the present, inviting them to think critically about why those connections matter. Talkbacks threaded throughout the book pair classic and challenging pieces with modern and thought-provoking responses.
Giving students the tools to understand connections between American history and American literature.
Conversations reinforce evidence-based argument skills.
Because students’ ability to synthesize multiple sources is a primary concern of college composition courses — as well as a skill that must be demonstrated on the AP® Language Exam — the Conversation in each chapter provides source material and guiding questions to help students use the words and ideas of others to develop their own arguments. Each Conversation is centered on an enduring issue that continues to be a subject of debate today. In joining these Conversations, students investigate how the past continues to shape the present and develop positions on how to approach the future.
Visuals and outside texts engage students and enrich the study of American literature.
Comprehensive, in-depth questions provide targeted practice for key reading and writing skills.
The in-depth questions and writing prompts that follow each reading enable students to link reading with writing, guiding students from understanding what a text is about to analysis of how the content is presented and why — the rhetorical strategies.
Grammar instruction that meets students where they are.
End-of-chapter writing practice reinforces key skills.
Suggestions for Writing at the end of each chapter guide students toward written responses that connect multiple pieces within the chapter or extend to pieces beyond the chapter or even beyond the book. Expanding on the skills introduced in the opening chapters, these prompts give students the opportunity to practice writing in many modes, including but not limited to rhetorical analysis, argument, and synthesis.
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American Literature and Rhetoric
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Robin Aufses; Renee Shea; Katherine E. Cordes; Lawrence Scanlon
Achieve is a comprehensive set of interconnected teaching and assessment tools that incorporate the most effective elements from Macmillan Learning's market leading solutions in a single, easy-to-use platform.
American Literature and Rhetoric
First Edition| 2021
Robin Aufses; Renee Shea; Katherine E. Cordes; Lawrence Scanlon
Guided Tour of American Literature & Rhetoric
1 Rhetorical Analysis
ACTIVITY Recognizing Civil Discourse
The Rhetorical Situation
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
Occasion, Context, and Purpose
ACTIVITY Defining a Rhetorical Situation
The Rhetorical Triangle
ACTIVITY Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation
Billie Jean King, Serena Is Still Treated Differently Than Male Athletes
Rhetorical Appeals
Ethos
Building Ethos
J. D. Vance, from Hillbilly Elegy
ACTIVITY Building Ethos
Logos
Conceding and Refuting
ACTIVITY Analyzing Logos and Counterargument
Jia Tolentino, from What It Takes to Put Away Your Phone
Pathos
Making Balanced Appeals
Richard Nixon, from The Checkers Speech
ACTIVITY Analyzing Pathos
Diana Abu-Jaber, from On Recognition and Nation
Combining Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Helen Keller, Letter to Mark Twain, 1906
ACTIVITY Combining Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Analyzing Visual Texts | Identifying Rhetorical Appeals
Tom Toles, Rosa Parks (cartoon)
ACTIVITY Identifying Rhetorical Appeals in a Visual Text
Nate Beeler, Government Is Watching (cartoon)
Analyzing Rhetoric and Style
Diction
Figurative Language
ACTIVITY Analyzing Diction
John Muir, from Save the Redwoods
Syntax
ACTIVITY Analyzing Syntax
John F. Kennedy, from Inaugural Address
Tone
ACTIVITY Analyzing Tone
Analyzing Visual Texts | Analyzing Visual Rhetoric
Dodge Durango (advertisement)
ACTIVITY Close Reading a Visual Text
KFC Hot and Spicy Chicken (advertisement)
From Reading to Writing: Crafting a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Shirley Chisholm, from People and Peace, Not Profits and War
Preparing to Write: Annotating Nonfiction
ACTIVITY Annotating an Excerpt
Developing a Thesis Statement
Supporting Your Thesis
ACTIVITY Organizing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Writing Topic Sentences
ACTIVITY Writing Topic Sentences
Using Quotations as Evidence
Documenting Sources
ACTIVITY Writing a Body Paragraph
Revising a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
ACTIVITY Revising a Paragraph
Analyzing a Sample Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Joseph Barrett, "People and Peace, Not Profits and War"
ACTIVITY Providing Peer Feedback for Revision
CULMINATING ACTIVITY Crafting a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Order of the Day
2 Evidence-Based Arguments
What Is Argument?
Understanding Claims
ACTIVITY Identifying Arguable Claims
Types of Claims
Claims of Fact
ACTIVITY Making Claims of Fact
Claims of Value
ACTIVITY Making Claims of Value
Claims of Policy
ACTIVITY Making Claims of Policy
Understanding and Analyzing Evidence
Types of Evidence
Personal Experience
Anecdotes
ACTIVITY Using Personal Experience and Anecdotes as Evidence
Current Events
Historical Information
ACTIVITY Using Current Events and Historical Information as Evidence
Expert Opinion
Quantitative Evidence
ACTIVITY Analyzing Evidence
Florence Kelley, Speech on Child Labor
Logical Reasoning and Organization: Shaping an Argument
Induction
Deduction
ACTIVITY Using Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Logical Fallacies
Red Herrings and Ad Hominem Fallacies
Faulty Analogies
Straw Man Fallacies
Either/Or Fallacies
Hasty Generalization
Circular Reasoning
Post Hoc Fallacies
Appeal to False Authority
Bandwagon Appeal
ACTIVITY Identifying Logical Fallacies
Analyzing Visual Texts | Identifying Fallacies in Visual Texts
PETA, Feeding Kids Meat Is Child Abuse (advertisement)
Heap Analytics, Same Data, Different Y-Axis (graphs)
ACTIVITY Identifying Fallacies in Visual Texts
Omega Watch, George Clooney’s Choice (advertisement)
U.S. Department of Education, High School Graduation Rate (graph)
Patterns of Development
Narration
Judith Ortiz Cofer, from The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
Description
Theodore Dreiser, from A Certain Oil Refinery
Process Analysis
E. B. White, from Farewell, My Lovely!
Exemplification
Sarah Grimké, from Letter on the Equality of the Sexes
Comparison and Contrast
Eleanor Roosevelt, from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do
Definition
Barack Obama, from 2004Democratic National Convention Speech
Cause and Effect
Robert F. Kennedy, from The Mindless Menace of Violence
ACTIVITY Analyzing Patterns of Development
Working with Sources to Build an Argument
Approaching Sources
ACTIVITY Approaching Sources
Examining Sources
ACTIVITY Examining Sources
Synthesizing Sources
From Reading to Writing: Crafting an Evidence-Based Essay
Conversation: Has Technology Changed the Way We Think?
Jacqueline Howard, This Is How the Internet Is Rewiring Your Brain
ACTIVITY Summarizing a Source
Americans’ Cell Phone Use during Social Activity (graph)
ACTIVITY Analyzing Quantitative Evidence
Nicholas Carr, The Illusion of Knowledge
ACTIVITY The "Yes, But" Game: Conceding and Refuting
Sherry Turkle, from Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
ACTIVITY Comparing and Contrasting Sources
Alison Gopnik, Is "Screen Time" Dangerous for Children?
ACTIVITY Playing the Believing Game
Osmani Simanca, Technology Shackle (cartoon)
ACTIVITY Using Visual Texts as Evidence
Preparing to Write: Identifying Key Issues
ACTIVITY Formulating Your Position
Developing a Thesis Statement
Supporting Your Thesis
Introducing Your Argument
Acknowledging the Counterargument
Supporting Your Argument with Evidence
Citing Sources
ACTIVITY: Writing a Body Paragraph
Revising an Evidence-Based Argument Essay
ACTIVITY Revising a Paragraph
Analyzing a Sample Evidence-Based Argument Essay
Christopher Rowley, "Has Technology Changed the Way We Think?"
ACTIVITY Providing Peer Feedback for Revision
CULMINATING ACTIVITY Crafting an Evidence-Based Argument Essay Conversation| The First Amendment: How Free Is Free Speech?
3 Analyzing Fiction
The Big Picture: Analyzing Major Elements of Fiction
Alice Walker, The Flowers
Plot
ACTIVITY Analyzing Plot
Character
Developing Character
ACTIVITY Analyzing Character
Setting
Khaled Hosseini, from A Thousand Splendid Suns
ACTIVITY Analyzing Setting
Point of View
N. K. Jemisin, from The Fifth Season
Amy Tan, from The Joy Luck Club
Jhumpa Lahiri, from The Namesake
Toni Morrison, from Sula
ACTIVITY Analyzing Point of View
Symbol and Allegory
Norman Maclean, from A River Runs Through It
ACTIVITY Analyzing Symbol and Allegory
Theme
ACTIVITY Putting It All Together: Analyzing Theme
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Close Reading: Analyzing Passages of Fiction
Talking with the Text
ACTIVITY Talking with the Text
Denis Johnson, from Tree of Smoke
Literary Elements
Zora Neale Hurston, from Sweat
Diction
Figurative Language
Imagery
ACTIVITY Analyzing Language Choices
Dana Czapnik, from The Falconer
Syntax
ACTIVITY Analyzing Syntax
De’Shawn Charles Winslow, from In West Mills
Tone and Mood
ACTIVITY Connecting Style with Tone and Mood
Robert Penn Warren, from All the Kings’ Men
From Reading to Writing: Crafting a Close Analysis of Fiction
Herman Melville, from Moby Dick
Preparing to Write: Annotating Fiction
ACTIVITY Annotating an Excerpt
Developing a Thesis Statement
Supporting Your Thesis
Writing Topic Sentences
Integrating Quotations
ACTIVITY Writing a Body Paragraph
Revising a Fiction Analysis Essay
ACTIVITY Revising a Paragraph
Analyzing a Sample Fiction Analysis Essay
Ashley Cammiso, "Moby Dick"
ACTIVITY Providing Peer Feedback for Revision
CULMINATING ACTIVITY: Crafting a Fiction Analysis Essay
Ernest Hemingway, from A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
4 Analyzing Poetry
Step 1: Reading for Literal Meaning
Robert Frost, Out, Out—
ACTIVITY Reading a Poem for Literal Meaning
Billy Collins, The Blues
Step 2: Considering the Speaker
Diction
Shifts
Tone and MoodACTIVITY Considering the Speaker
E. A. Robinson, Richard Cory
Step 3: Reading for Detail
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo
Figurative Language
ImageryACTIVITY Connecting Figurative Language and Imagery to Meaning
Joy Harjo, For Keeps
Structure
Poetic Syntax
Meter
Form
ACTIVITY Connecting Form to Meaning
Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
Sound
Rhyme
ACTIVITY Connecting Sound to Meaning
Natasha Trethewey, Providence
From Analysis to Essay: Crafting a Poetry Analysis Essay
Stephen Dunn, The Sacred
Preparing to Write: Annotating a Poem
ACTIVITY Annotating a Poem
Denise Levertov, The Secret
Developing a Thesis Statement
Supporting Your Thesis
Writing Topic Sentences
Integrating Quotations
Documenting Sources
ACTIVITY Writing a Body Paragraph
Revising a Poetry Analysis Essay
ACTIVITY Revising a Paragraph
Analyzing a Sample Poetry Analysis Essay
Lily Krakoff, "The Sacred"
ACTIVITY Providing Peer Feedback for Revision
CULMINATING ACTIVITY Crafting a Poetry Analysis Essay
Denise Levertov, The Secret
5 Redefining America
2001 to the Present
Barbara Ehrenreich, from Serving in Florida (nonfiction, 2001)
George W. Bush, Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001 (nonfiction)
TALKBACK | Omer Aziz, The World 9/11 Took from Us (nonfiction, 2019)
Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention Speech (nonfiction)
Brian Turner, At Lowe’s Home Improvement Center (poetry, 2010)
TALKBACK | Ilya Kaminsky, In a Time of Peace (poetry, 2019)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Fatherland (fiction, 2011)
Natalie Diaz, Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation (poetry, 2012)
Roxane Gay, from Bad Feminist: Take Two (nonfiction , 2014)
Ross Gay, A Small Needful Fact (poetry, 2015)
Kathryn Schulz, from Citizen Khan (nonfiction, 2016)
Ted Closson, A GoFundMe Campaign Is Not Health Insurance (graphic essay, 2017)
Bryan Stevenson, A Presumption of Guilt (nonfiction, 2017)
Tracy K. Smith, Refuge (poetry, 2018)
Jesmyn Ward, My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home (nonfiction, 2018)
Amy Sherald, First Lady Michelle Obama (painting, 2018)
Kehinde Wiley, President Barack Obama (painting, 2018)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black (fiction, 2018)
José Olivarez, My Family Never Finished Migrating We Just Stopped (poetry, 2019)
Louise Erdrich, The Stone (fiction, 2019)
Bill McKibben, 2050: How Earth Survived (nonfiction, 2019)
CONVERSATION | A Nation of Immigrants: What Is the American Dream?
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Short Simple Sentences and Fragments
Suggestions for Writing | Redefining America
6 A Meeting of Old and New Worlds
Beginnings to 1830
American Indian Trickster Stories (fiction)
Iroquois Confederacy, from The Iroquois Constitution (nonfiction, c. 1142)
Christopher Columbus, from Journal of the First Voyage to America (nonfiction, 1492)
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation of Cabeza de Vaca (nonfiction, 1542)
Richard Frethorne, Letter to Father and Mother (nonfiction, 1623)
John Winthrop, from A Modell of Christian Charity (nonfiction, 1630)
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book (poetry, 1678)
Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World: A Hortatory and Necessary Address to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum’d by the Wrath of the Devil (nonfiction, 1693)
Jonathan Edwards, from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (nonfiction, 1741)
Benjamin Franklin, The Speech of Miss Polly Baker (nonfiction, 1747)
Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America (poetry, 1773)
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works (poetry, 1773)
To His Excellency General Washington (poetry, 1776)
TALKBACK | June Jordan, from The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Or Something like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley (nonfiction, 2002)
Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention (nonfiction, 1775)
Thomas Paine, from Common Sense (nonfiction, 1776)
Abigail and John Adams, Letters (nonfiction, 1776)
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (nonfiction, 1776)
Philip Freneau, To Sir Toby, A Sugar Planter in the Interior Parts of Jamaica, Near the City of San Jago de la Vega (Spanish Town), 1784 (poetry, 1784/1792)
Alexander Hamilton, from The Federalist No. 1 (nonfiction, 1787)
Preamble to the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights (nonfiction, 1789)
Judith Sargent Murray, from On the Equality of the Sexes (nonfiction, 1790)
TALKBACK | H. L. Mencken, from In Defense of Women (nonfiction, 1918)
George Washington and Moses Seixas, Letters on Religious Tolerance (nonfiction, 1790)
Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson with Response from Thomas Jefferson (nonfiction, 1791)
Absalom Jones , Petition of the People of Colour, Freemen, within the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia (nonfiction, 1799)
Red Jacket, Defense of American Indian Religion (nonfiction, 1805)
Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner (poetry, 1814)
TALKBACK | Ada Limón, A New National Anthem (poetry, 2018)
Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (fiction, 1820)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, The Forsaken Brother (fiction, 1827)
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (painting, 1833)
Conversation | The Second Amendment: What Does It Mean Today?
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Subordination in Complex Sentences
Suggestions for Writing | A Meeting of Old and New Worlds
7 America in Conflict
1830–1865
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister’s Black Veil (fiction, 1832)
John Ross and Elias Boudinot, Response to the Treaty of New Echota (nonfiction, 1836)
Sarah Grimké, from Letter on the Condition of Women in the United States (nonfiction, 1838)
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher (fiction, 1839)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Self-Reliance (nonfiction, 1841)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (nonfiction, 1848)
Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman? (nonfiction, 1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (nonfiction, 1852)
Frederick Douglass, from What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? (nonfiction, 1852)
Go Down Moses (poetry, c. 1852/1861)
Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (nonfiction, 1854)
TALKBACK | Kathryn Schulz, from Pond Scum (nonfiction, 2015)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Bury Me in a Free Land (poetry, 1858)
John Brown, Last Speech (nonfiction, 1859)
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing (poetry, 1860)
TALKBACK | Langston Hughes, I, Too (poetry, 1926)
O Captain! My Captain! (poetry, 1865)
Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (nonfiction, 1861)
Alfred M. Green, Let Us Take Up the Sword (nonfiction, 1861)
Emily Dickinson, "Hope" is the thing with feathers — (poetry, c. 1861)
I heard a Fly buzz — when I died — (poetry, c. 1862)
My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun — (poetry, c. 1863)
TALKBACK | Hans Ostrom, Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry, 2006)
Herman Melville, Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862) (poetry)
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (nonfiction, 1865)
Mathew Brady Photography Studio, Civil War Photography (visual essay, 1861–1865)
Conversation | Reparations: How Do We Address the Legacy of Slavery in America?
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences
Suggestions for Writing | America in Conflict
8 Reconstructing America
1865–1913
Jourdon Anderson, To My Old Master (nonfiction, 1865)
Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field (painting, 1865)
TALKBACK | Natasha Trethewey, Again, the Fields (poetry, 2006)
Red Cloud, Speech on Indian Rights (nonfiction, 1870)
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life among the Paiutes (nonfiction, 1882)
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus (poetry, 1883)
Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi (nonfiction, 1883)
Jacob Riis, The Mixed Crowd (nonfiction, 1890)
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (fiction, 1890)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (fiction, 1892)
TALKBACK | Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of a Lady (painting, 2013)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (nonfiction, 1892)
Frederick Jackson Turner, from The Significance of the Frontier in American History (nonfiction,1893/1920)
Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address (nonfiction, 1895)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask (poetry, 1896)
Jane Addams, from The Subtle Problem of Charity (nonfiction, 1899)
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (nonfiction, 1899)
James Weldon Johnson, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (poetry, 1900)
TALKBACK | Augusta Savage, The Harp, or "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" (sculpture, 1939)
Andy Adams, from The Log of a Cowboy (fiction, 1903)
W.E.B. DuBois, The Talented Tenth (nonfiction, 1903)
Willa Cather, The Sculptor’s Funeral (fiction, 1905)
TALKBACK | Kim Stafford, Willa Cather’s Ride (poetry, 2019)
E. A. Robinson, Miniver Cheevy (poetry, 1910)
Sui Sin Far, Its Wavering Image (fiction, 1912)
Katharine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful (poetry, 1912)
TALKBACK | Gregory Djanikian, In the Elementary School Choir (poetry, 1989)
Conversation | Income Inequality: Are We Living in a New Gilded Age?
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Modifiers
Suggestions for Writing | Reconstructing America
9 America in the Modern World
1913–1945
María Cristina Mena, The Vine-Leaf (fiction, 1914)
Carrie Chapman Catt, Women’s Suffrage Is Inevitable (nonfiction, 1917)
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (poetry, 1917)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig (poetry, 1918)
Marianne Moore, Poetry (poetry, 1919)
Claude McKay, If We Must Die (poetry, 1919)
Theodore Dreiser, A Certain Oil Refinery (nonfiction, 1919)
Emma Goldman, Deportation Hearing Statement (nonfiction, 1919)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair (fiction, 1920)
E. E. Cummings, in Just- (poetry, 1920)
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice (poetry, 1920)
William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure (poetry, 1921)
TALKBACK | Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (painting, 1928)
This Is Just to Say (poetry, 1934)
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers (poetry, 1921)
Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light (fiction, 1924)
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me (nonfiction, 1928)
TALKBACK | Eve Ewing, What I mean when I say I’m sharpening my oyster knife (poetry, 2018)
Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel (poetry, 1925)
T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (poetry, 1925)
Eleanor Roosevelt, Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do (nonfiction, 1928)
TALKBACK | Rebecca Solnit, If I Were a Man (nonfiction, 2017)
E. B. White, Farewell, My Lovely! (nonfiction, 1936)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address: One-Third of a Nation (nonfiction, 1937)
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish (poetry, 1938)
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen (poetry, 1939)
Farm Security Administration and the Works Progress Administration Photographers, The Great Depression (visual essay, 1930–1942)
Gordon Hirabayashi, from Diary in King County Jail (nonfiction, 1942)
Conversation | Women in the Workforce: Breaking the Glass Ceiling or Falling Off a Glass Cliff?
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Direct, Precise, and Active Verbs
Suggestions for Writing | America in the Modern World
10 The Rise of a Superpower
1945 to the Present
Harry S. Truman, Statement by the President of the United States (nonfiction, 1945)
Lillian Hellman, I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year’s Fashions (nonfiction, 1952)
Flannery O’Connor, Good Country People (fiction, 1955)
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (nonfiction, 1955)
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California (poetry, 1955)
Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews (fiction, 1959)
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (nonfiction, 1961)
Joan Didion, On Self-Respect (nonfiction, 1961)
Sylvia Plath, Mirror (poetry, 1961)
John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis Speech (nonfiction, 1962)
TALKBACK | Nikita Khrushchev, Letter to John F. Kennedy (nonfiction, 1962)
Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring (nonfiction, 1962)
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (nonfiction, 1963)
TALKBACK | Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted (nonfiction, 2010)
Robert F. Kennedy, The Mindless Menace of Violence (nonfiction, 1968)
Toni Cade Bambara, Raymond’s Run (fiction, 1971)
Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck (poetry, 1973)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman (fiction, 1974)
Naomi Shihab Nye, Arabic Coffee (poetry, 1986)
Brent Staples, Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space (nonfiction, 1986)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It (poetry, 1988)
TALKBACK | Ocean Vuong, Aubade with Burning City (poetry, 2014)
Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy River (fiction, 1990)
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María (nonfiction, 1992)
Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture (nonfiction, 1993)
Kerry James Marshall, Our Town (painting, 1995)
Rita Dove, Rosa (poetry, 1998)
Conversation | Military Spending: How Much Is Too Much?
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Parallel Structures
Suggestions for Writing | The Rise of a Superpower
Glossary / Glosario
Grammar Workshops
MLA Guide
Index
American Literature and Rhetoric
First Edition| 2021
Robin Aufses; Renee Shea; Katherine E. Cordes; Lawrence Scanlon
Katherine E. Cordes is a National Board Certified English teacher with a BA in English, psychology, and medieval studies; an MEd in curriculum and instruction; and an MFA in poetry. She has more than twenty years of experience in the secondary English Language Arts classroom and currently teaches AP Seminar®/Honors English 10 and AP® English Literature at Skyview High School in Billings, Montana, where she has also taught dual enrollment college writing and AP® English Language. As part of the College Board’s Instructional Design Team, Katherine contributed to the development, review, and dissemination of the 2019 AP® English Literature Course and Exam Description, and she has been an AP® Reader for the AP® English Literature and AP® Seminar Exams. She is a co-author of Literature & Composition and The Language of Composition.
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American Literature and Rhetoric
First Edition| 2021
Robin Aufses; Renee Shea; Katherine E. Cordes; Lawrence Scanlon
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