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Library Resources (ENG 246)

Class Texts (Instructor: Christina Duffman)

Module	Text
	Iroquois Confederacy: "Origin of Folk Stories" (Seneca) Cherokee: "How the World Was Made" Akimel O'ndham (Pima): "The Story of the Creation" Lakota: "Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe" Hupa: "The Boy Who Grew Up at Ta'k'imilding"
	Christopher Columbus: "Letter of Columbus..." Cabeza de Vaca: "The Narrative..." John Smith: "What Happened till the First Supply" William Bradford: Of Plimoth Plantation
	Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" John Winthrop: "A Modell of Christian Charity" Cotton Mather: The Wonders of the Invisible World selection Samuel Sewall: The Diary of Samuel Sewall selection Jonathan Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon
	Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Phillis Wheatley: Various Poems Washington Irving: "Rip Van Winkle"
	Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance" & "The American Scholar" Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" & Walden Frederick Douglass: "Narrative..." Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The Wives of the Dead" Edgar Allan Poe: Various Selections Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
	Mark Twain: "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" Sarah Orne Jewett: "A White Heron" Kate Chopin: “At the ‘Cadian Ball” & "The Storm" Ambrose Bierce: "Chickamauga" Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery selection W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk selection Charles W. Chesnutt: "The Passing of Grandison"
	Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" Robert Frost: "Mending Wall" Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Langston Hughes: "I, Too"
	Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing"

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