Category: E3-Resources

Old Ironsides

Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

OLD IRONSIDES by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr This was the popular name by which the frigate Constitution was known. The poem was first printed in the Boston Daily Advertiser, at the time when it...

Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" tells the story of the Acadians driven from their Louisiana homes.

Evangeline Part One by Longfellow

Evangeline, Part One A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This story poem is based on the story of the Acadians’ expulsion from their homeland. The Maine Historical Society provides a helpful summary of...

Evangeline searched despondently for Gabriel after they were separated on their wedding day.

Evangeline Part Two by Longfellow

Evangeline, Part Two A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow PART THE SECOND. I. MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pré, When on the falling tide the freighted vessels...

Honors Texts for American Literature

Honors Texts for American Literature (E3) The Honors Track for American Literature is outlined in the study guide, and involves additional reading and writing and an optional exam. Another way you can use the honors texts is if...

Notes From American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From An American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the originial ed., with a prefatory note...

Appendix 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Appendix 1 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From An American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 12 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur  COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the orginial ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 11 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 10 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Colophon Text: Letters from an American farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 9 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer  J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original edition, with a prefatory note by W.P....

Letter 8 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note by...

Letter 7 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 6 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 5 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 3 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur LETTER III. WHAT IS AN AMERICAN. I WISH I could be acquainted with the feelings and thoughts which must agitate the heart and present...

Letter 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letters from An American Farmer by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur What then is the American, this new man?…He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives...

Symbols in the Great Gatsby by Frederick Millett

Symbols in The Great Gatsby by Frederick C. Millett Perhaps F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest work, The Great Gatsby is not only a great story, but an insight into the flaws of real life during...

The Last of the Mohicans 1920 film

This 1920 American film adaption of The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper’s novel of the same name is the story of two English sisters who encounter danger and heroism on the...

American Literature Videos

Videos referenced in American Literature (E3): Module 1 William Zeitler plays the glass armonica (an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin) Module 2 Poe’s poem “The Raven” read aloud by Christopher Walken, combined with Gustave...

American Literature Texts

English III: American Literature, A Survey Course What does American Literature cover? American Literature is a college-preparatory chronological literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for...

Jennie Clemen's Grave, by Herbert Rickards

To Jennie by Mark Twain

To Jennie by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Written upon the death of his niece, Jennie Clemens, To Jennie is Twain at his most somber. The only child of his brother Orion, Jennie was...

Mark Twain, American Humorist

Genius by Mark Twain

Genius by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Twain at his most satirical, Genius is a biting mockery of not only the eccentric poetic stereotype but the tendency of critics to evaluate work based on...

Mark Twain; from a glass negative

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots by Mark Twain

Ode To Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d by Mark Twain EIL Editior’s note: Originally appearing in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a work by Emmaline Grangerford (a caricature of Twain’s contemporary Julia A. Moore),...

Those Annual Bills by Mark Twain

THOSE ANNUAL BILLS BY MARK TWAIN EIL Editor’s note: Never one to shy away from social commentary or criticism, Twain’s Those Annual Bills is a semi-comical lament of the financial necessities of existence which is...