Questions on the American Literature exam require test takers to demonstrate one or more of the following abilities in the approximate proportions indicated:

Ability to understand and interpret short poems, excerpts from long poems, and excerpts from prose works (about 35–40% of the exam)
Knowledge of literary works, including authors, characters, plots, settings, style, and themes (about 25–30% of the exam)
Familiarity with critical terms, verse forms, and literary devices (about 15–20% of the exam)
Knowledge of historical and social settings of specific works, relations between literary works, relations of specific works to literary traditions, and influences on authors (about 15–20% of the exam)

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Homework Offered
Homework is assigned weekly and is graded for completeness.
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Assessments will be formal and informal.  They are designed provide practice for students to succeed in future higher level biology programs.
Grades Offered
Homework and tests will be graded to allow students and parents to judge progress and readiness for future learning.

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Belasco, Susan and Linck Johnson. 2008a. The Bedford Anthology pf American Literature, Vol 1, Beginnings to 1865. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Belasco, Susan and Linck Johnson. 2008a. The Bedford Anthology pf American Literature, Vol 2, 1865 to Present. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Baym et al. 2008. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter 7th ed. New York, W.W. Norton.
Hunter, J. Paul. 1996. The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 11th ed. New York Pearson/Longman.
Kizer, Carolyn. 1995. 100 Great Poems by Women: A Golden ECCO Anthology. Hopewell, NJ. Ecco Press.

Wheatley, Phillis, 1995. Poems of Phillis Wheatly: An African and a Slave. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 2001. Emerson's Prose and Poetry, A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Joel Porte and Saundra Morris. New York: W.W. Norton

Harper, Francis Ellen Watkins. 1988. Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Edited by Maryemma Graham. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hollander, John. 1996. American Poetry: The Nineteenth-Century. The Library of America, New York: Penguin Books.

Melville, Herman. 1984. Pierre, Israel Potter, The Plazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, and Billy Budd, Sailor. The Library of America. New York: Library of Classics of the United States.

Melville, Herman, 2001. Moby Dick, A Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed. Edited by Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. 1853. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Boston: John P. Jewett.

Thoreau, Henry David, 2008. Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings. A Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed. Edited by William Rossi. New York, W.W. Norton.

Wharton, Edith. 1994. The Age of Innocence. London: Wordsworth Editions.

Whitman, Walt, 2001. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. A Norton Critical Edition, Edited by Michael Moon, New York: W.W. Norton.

Whittier, John Greenleaf. 1894. The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Cambridge Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 

Bierce, Ambrose, 1993, The Devil's Dictionary. New York: Dover Publications.

Davis, Rebecca Harding. 1998. Life in the Iron-Mills. A Bedford Cultural Edition. Edited by Cecilia Techi. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1963. The Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Hollander, John, 1996. The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 16th ed. New York,  W.W. Norton.

James, Henry. 2003. Tales of Henry James. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton.

Anderson, Sherwood, 1993. Winesburg, Ohio. New York: Penguin.

Ellmann, Richard, and Robert O'Clair. 1988. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton.

Faulkner, William, 1951. Absalom, Absalom! New York: W.W. Norton.

Faulkner, William. 1990. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Vintage.

Hemingway, Ernest. 1932. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Hemingway, Ernest. 1952. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Hughes, Langston, 2004, Vintage Hughes. New York: Vintage.

Hunter, J. Paul. 1996. The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 6th ed. New York: W.W. Norton.

Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. 2005. An Introduction to Poetry. 11th ed. New York: Pearson/Longman.

Newsweek. "Match Point." January 30,  1956.

Porter, Katherine Anne. 2008. "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." The Seagull Readers: Stories, 2nd ed. Edited by Joseph Kelly, New York: W.W. Norton.

Sidney, Phillip,1998. "An apology for Poetry." The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. 2nd ed. Edited by David H. Richter. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.

Wright, Richard. 2005. Native Son. New York: Harper Perennial.

Berryman, John. 1988. The Dream Songs. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 

Ellison, Ralph. 1990. The Invisible Man. New York: Vintage.

Ginsberg, Allen. 1959. Howl and Other Poems.  San Fransico: City Lights Bookstore.

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. New York: Avon Books.

Marrs, Suzanne. 2005.  Eudora Welty: A Biography.  New York: Harcourt.

O'Connor, Flannery. 1997.  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose.  New York: The Noonday Press.

Williams, William Carlos. 1959. "Introduction." Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. San Fransico: City Lights Bookstore.

Please Note:  Outschool does not give us a way to underline or italicize so the annotations are not correct.
You do not need to purchase these book, they are the ones we will summarize in class for the CLEP exam.