11th ELA

Suggested Text Resources

Literary

Informational

Harlem Renaissance - John Carroll University Harlem Renaissance - youtube.com: The Harlem Renaissance: The Rise of African American Literature, Art, and Music and Poetry Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers” / “Trumpet Player”, “Ballad of the Landlord”/ “Daybreak in Alabama” / “Harlem” / “I, Too” / “Mother To Son T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (L 1300) / “The Wasteland” (L 1050 Robert Frost:”Acquainted with the Night” / “Design” / “Out, Out” / “Once by the Pacifc” /”Nothing Gold Can Stay” / “Most of It: /”Bereft” / “Death of a Hired Man” Novels and Short Stories Excerpts from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (L 1290) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (L 1070) “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (L 1420) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (L 630) and “Leader of the People” Countee Cullen: “Tableau Incident”

Comparing Ernest Hemingway’s Life to His Characters in The Sun Also Rises

Dream by Carl Elliott (L 1270) American Dreamers by Lisa Miller (L 1290)

Generation ‘X’ by Leonard Pitts Jr. (L 1270)

An Examination of the 100 Documents That Most Defne America As a Nation of Ideas and Ideals, By Michael Barone, Seth Rosen, Teresa Riordan, Jay Tolson, Bernadine Healy, M.D., Katherine Hobson, Angie C. Marek, Joannie Fischer, Thomas K. Grose, Charles Fenyvesi and Michael Satchell, ( L 1310 )

THE WAR ON THE HOME FRONT, Stephen E. Ambrose, (L 1200)

Harlem Renaissance, Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith and Gloria Steinem, ed.

Newsela Connections

Connections to T he Great Gatsby The Harlem Renaissance How did “bourgeoisie” become a bad word?

“The Egg” by Sherwood Anderson (L 1160) “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner (L 990) “A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather (L 1460) Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (L 940) “Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Parallels Between the New American Barons and the Gilded Age (Audio) to be paired with Overview: Income Inequality (Text)

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