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American Literature & Rhetoric
Table of Contents
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
Developing a Thesis Statement
Supporting Your Thesis
Writing Topic Sentences
Integrating Quotations
Documenting Sources
Activity: Writing a Body Paragraph
Revising Your First Draft
Activity: Revising a Paragraph
Analyzing a Sample Poetry Analysis
Essay
“The Sacred” by Lily Krakoff
Activity: Providing Feedback for Revision
Culminating Activity: Crafting a
Poetry Analysis Essay
Denise Levertov, The Secret
5 | REDEFINING AMERICA:
2001 TO THE PRESENT
(All Chapter 5 texts in the marketing
sampler are bold/purple)
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, Democratic National
Convention Speech (nonfiction , 2004)
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)
Kehinde Wiley, President Barack Obama (painting, 2018)
Amy Sherald, First Lady Michelle Obama
(painting, 2018)
Tracy K. Smith, Refuge (poetry, 2018)
Jesmyn Ward, My True South: Why I Decided to
Return Home (nonfiction, 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 | The American Dream:
Are We Still a Nation of Immigrants?
1. Joshua Zeitz, The Real History of American
Immigration (2017)
2. Khalil Bendib, Help Wanted (cartoon, 2010)
3. Julia Preston, Newest Immigrants Assimilating
as Fast as Previous Ones, Report Says (2015)
4. Amanda Machado, from My Immigrant Family
Achieved the American Dream. Then I Started
to Question It. (2017)
5. Andrew Lam, Is America Still a Nation of
Immigrants? (2001/2017)
6. Views on Immigration to the United States
of America, 1994-2019 (graphs, 2019)
7. Austan Goolsbee, Sharp Cuts in Immigration
Threaten U.S. Economy and Innovation (2019)
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style |
Short Simple Sentences and Fragments
Chapter 5 Suggestions for Writing
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)
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
(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)
Robin Dissin Aufses, Renée H. Shea,
Lawrence Scanlon, Katherine E. Cordes
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)
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, To the Hebrew Congregation
in Newport, Rhode Island (nonfiction, 1790)
Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson
with Response from Thomas Jefferson
(nonfiction, 1791)
Absalom Jones, et al., 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 | What Does the Second
Amendment Mean?
1. Akhil Reed Amar, from Second Thoughts (1999)
2. Thomas Sowell, Do Gun-Control Laws Control
Guns? (2013)
3. Pew Research Center, Some Agreement and
Many Divisions between Owners and
Non-Owners on Gun Proposals (graph, 2017)