Age of Revolution

First and Second Semester

Literature Selections

Meet these authors

Joel Chandler Harris
Mary Antin
Albert Camus
Sojourner Truth
G. K. Chesterton
Ernest Hemingway
LouisaMayAlcott
William Butler Yeats
e. e. cummings
Henry David Thoreau
Anton Chekhov
Martin Luther King
Walt Whitman
P. G. Wodehouse
Malcolm X Charles
Dickens
Langston Hughes
Bob Dylan
Bret Harte
T. S. Eliot
Amy Tan
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Frost
James Herriot
Emily Dickinson
Dylan Thomas
Garrison Keillor
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Adolph Hitler
Black-Eyed Peas
Jack London
Elie Wiesel
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Frances E. Harper
Agatha Christie Eminem
Zitkala-Sa
Pearl Buck
Maya Angelou
O. Henry
William Faulkner
Francine Rivers
Mark Twain
Thornton Wilder
Karen Hesse
Willa Cather
Upton Sinclair
John Grisham

Movie Selections

(So many books, so little time!)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Call of the Wild
October Sky
Red Badge of Courage
Anastasia
When We Were Colored		 Friendly Persuasion
The Great Gatsby
Remember the Titans
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Grapes of Wrath
Not Without My Daughter		 The Miracle Worker
Cry the Beloved
Country Stand and Deliver
Hidalgo
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451



The literature books below, as well as the literature and movie selections above, prepare students for the literary references often used in the college classroom and in intellectual discussions. Further, reading great books expands vocabulary while providing examples necessary for college entrance essays, SAT essays, and college level composition and research papers.

Literature Books

The Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Testament by John Grisham
All nine units of The Institute for Excellence in Writing Teaching Writing Structure & Style are added to the literature and writing assignments with additional styles practice provided.