American Literature Resources

Welcome to the American Literature resources page. Each unit page contains activities and the links referenced in the teacher's guide and student workbook. These pages are password protected. To enter these areas, click on the unit title tab in the blue box to the right and enter the password found inside your guide or workbook.

• American Short Stories and Poetry
• Puritan Ideals
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Anti-Slavery Literature
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • James by Percival Everett
• Materialism and the Roaring 20s
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
• Great Depression Stories
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  • No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
  • Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
• Japanese Internment
  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
  • Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
• Christ Figures in Literature
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Billy Budd by Herman Melville
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• American Dystopian Literature
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Feed by M. T. Anderson
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bardbury
• Jim Crow Era Literature
  • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Bildungsroman Stories
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton