Part I: After reading the lesson this week, name one of this week’s authors you could relate to in some way. Why? What about that author did you connect with?

Reading Material MLA style.   SEE ATTACHMENT

 

From Sand Creek” by Simon

 

Ortiz in the textbook, American

 

Literature Since the Civil War

 

“A Postcard from the Volcano”

 

by Wallace Stevens in the

 

textbook, American Literature

 

Since the Civil War

 

“Why I Write” by Joan Didion in

 

the textbook, American

 

Literature Since the Civil War

 

I’m nobody, who are you? by

 

Emily Dickinson, available at Poets.org.

 

An Agony. As Now. by Amiri

 

Baraka, available at Poetry

 

Foundation

 

We Wear the Mask by Paul

 

Laurence Dunbar, available at

 

Poetry Foundation

 

The Turning Point of My Life

 

from What Is Man? and Other

 

Essays

 

America from The Patriotic

 

Poems of Walt Whitman

 

Long Too Long America from

 

The Patriotic Poems of Walt

 

Whitman

 

I Hear America Singing from

 

The Patriotic Poems of Walt

 

Whitman

 

Shine Perishing Republic by

 

Robinson Jeffers, available at

 

Poetry Foundation

 

America by Allen Ginsberg,

 

available at Poetry Foundation

 

America by Claude McKay,

 

available at Poetry Foundation

 

Heritage by Countee Cullen,

 

available at Poetry Foundation

 

Autumn Begins in Martin’s

 

Ferry, Ohio by James Wright,

 

available at Poetry Foundation

 

Let No Charitable Hope by

 

Elinor Wylie, available at

 

Poetry Society of America

 

The Problem of Old Harjo by

 

John Oskison

 

 

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