Words Aptly Spoken - American Literature (old)

Study guide covering:

• "The Gift of the Magi," by O. Henry
• "The Ransom of Red Chief," by O. Henry
• "A Model of Charity," by J. Winthrop
• Excerpt from Essays to Do Good, by Cotton Mather
• "A Method of Grace," by George Whitefield
• "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "The Song of Hiawatha," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
• Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
• An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
• "The Pit and the Pendulum," by Edgar Allan Poe
• Through Gates of Splendor, by Elisabeth Elliot
• Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
• Autobiography of an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
• Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
• The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
• "On Self Reliance," by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

Full text of the first seven selections are included in the guide.