National Standards for the English Language Arts (American Literature Part I)

From the National Council for Teachers of English and the International Reading Association -- Standards 1 and 2

1. Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works. To meet this standard students can read:

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Fiction

Novels
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2c.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2f.asp
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3c.asp
  
• Hawthorne and Melville
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5.asp
  
• The Scarlet Letter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5b.asp
  
• Moby-Dick
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5d.asp
  
• Sarah Orne Jewett -- Maine's Treasure
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7a.asp
  
• Bret Harte: Scalawags and Scoundrels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7b.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8b.asp
  
• Stephen Crane Defines Courage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8c.asp
  
• Rags to Riches: Horatio Alger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8d.asp
  
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9a.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Charles Chesnutt
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9d.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• Louisa May Alcott
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10a.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Willa Cather: The Special Language of Loneliness
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10c.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• 'Dime' Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11b.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Upton Sinclair and the Novel of Social Outrage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12a.asp
  
• Theodore Dreiser
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12b.asp
  

Short stories
• The Gothic Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4a.asp
  
• Creating the Detective Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4b.asp
  
• Tiny Brush Strokes: Local Colorists 'Paint' America
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7.asp
  
• Sarah Orne Jewett -- Maine's Treasure
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7a.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Stephen Crane Defines Courage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8c.asp
  
• Rags to Riches: Horatio Alger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8d.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• Charles Chesnutt
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9d.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• 'Dime' Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11b.asp
  
• The Tall Tale
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11c.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  

Plays
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  

Literary classics
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Quest for an 'American Identity'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2.asp
  
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Quest for an 'American Identity'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2.asp
  
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2c.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2f.asp
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3c.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• The Gothic Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4a.asp
  
• Creating the Detective Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5a.asp
  
• The Scarlet Letter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5b.asp
  
• Moby-Dick
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5d.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8b.asp
  
• Stephen Crane Defines Courage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8c.asp
  
• Rags to Riches: Horatio Alger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8d.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  

Contemporary Works
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  

Nonfiction

Journals
• Revolutionary Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1e.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  
• Growing Pains
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3c.asp
  
• Rise of the Ladies' Magazines
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3e.asp
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Sad Life and Times
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4.asp
  
• Creating the Detective Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4b.asp
  
• The Reticent Celebrity: Emily Dickinson
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6e.asp
  
• Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8a.asp
  
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9a.asp
  
• Influence of Literary Magazines and Critics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11f.asp
  
• Upton Sinclair and the Novel of Social Outrage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12a.asp
  

Magazine articles
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Rise of the Ladies' Magazines
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3e.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6b.asp
  
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9a.asp
  
• W.E.B. Du Bois
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9f.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• 'Dime' Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11b.asp
  
• The Tall Tale
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11c.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• Influence of Literary Magazines and Critics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11f.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  

Biographies
• Preachers and Pedagogues
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1e.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Quest for an 'American Identity' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2.asp
  
• Growing Pains AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Sad Life and Times AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4.asp
  
• Hawthorne and Melville
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5.asp
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5a.asp
  
• Herman Melville
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5c.asp
  
• Moby-Dick
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5d.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Tiny Brush Strokes: Local Colorists 'Paint' America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7.asp
  
• Luck, Pluck, and the American Dream AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  

Autobiographies
• Discovery! The New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1a.asp
  
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2f.asp
  
• Growing Pains
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• Booker T. Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9e.asp
  
• W.E.B. Du Bois
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9f.asp
  

Creative nonfiction
• Settlers Arrive: The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1b.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  
• Influence of Literary Magazines and Critics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11f.asp
  
• Theodore Dreiser
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12b.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  

Other nonfiction
• The Colonial Era to 1789 AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1.asp
  
• Quest for an 'American Identity' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• Rise of the Ladies' Magazines
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3e.asp
  
• Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8a.asp
  
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9a.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Charles Chesnutt
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9d.asp
  
• Booker T. Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9e.asp
  
• W.E.B. Du Bois
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9f.asp
  
• Louisa May Alcott
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10a.asp
  
• Willa Cather: The Special Language of Loneliness
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10c.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• Webster and His Dictionary
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11a.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• Influence of Literary Magazines and Critics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11f.asp
  
• Upton Sinclair and the Novel of Social Outrage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12a.asp
  
• Theodore Dreiser
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12b.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  

Poetry

• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  

Nonprint texts such as pictures and paintings, video or film

• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  All Beyond Books literature programs contain nonprint texts such as pictures, video, and audio resources that students can use to help achieve this standard.
  

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The Periods

American Origins to 1620
• The Colonial Era to 1789
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1.asp
  
• Discovery! The New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1a.asp
  
• Settlers Arrive: The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1b.asp
  

Colonialism and the Founding of the New Nation 1620-1820
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Preachers and Pedagogues
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1e.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Quest for an 'American Identity'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2.asp
  
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  

America through the Civil War 1820-1865
• James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2c.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2e.asp
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2f.asp
  
• Growing Pains AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Sad Life and Times AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4.asp
  
• Hawthorne and Melville AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  

Rebuilding the Nation 1865-1914
• Tiny Brush Strokes: Local Colorists 'Paint' America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7.asp
  
• Luck, Pluck, and the American Dream AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  

Between the Wars 1914-1945
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  

The Genres

Biography
• Preachers and Pedagogues
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1e.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Quest for an 'American Identity' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2.asp
  
• Growing Pains AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Sad Life and Times AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4.asp
  
• Hawthorne and Melville AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Tiny Brush Strokes: Local Colorists 'Paint' America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7.asp
  
• Luck, Pluck, and the American Dream AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• Webster and His Dictionary
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11a.asp
  
• The Tall Tale
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11c.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Influence of Literary Magazines and Critics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11f.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  

Autobiography
• Discovery! The New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1a.asp
  
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2f.asp
  
• Growing Pains
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• Booker T. Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9e.asp
  
• W.E.B. Du Bois
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9f.asp
  

Creative nonfiction
• Settlers Arrive: The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1b.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  
• Influence of Literary Magazines and Critics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11f.asp
  
• Theodore Dreiser
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12b.asp
  

Drama
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  

Essays
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  Students can use the content from all Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Fictional short stories
• The Gothic Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4a.asp
  
• Creating the Detective Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4b.asp
  
• Tiny Brush Strokes: Local Colorists 'Paint' America
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7.asp
  
• Sarah Orne Jewett -- Maine's Treasure
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7a.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Stephen Crane Defines Courage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8c.asp
  
• Rags to Riches: Horatio Alger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8d.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• Charles Chesnutt
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9d.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• 'Dime' Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11b.asp
  
• The Tall Tale
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11c.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  

Journals
• The Colonial Era to 1789
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1.asp
  
• Discovery! The New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1a.asp
  
• Settlers Arrive: The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1b.asp
  
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Growing Pains
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  

Literary Criticism
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  Students can use the content from all Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Novels
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2c.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2f.asp
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3c.asp
  
• Hawthorne and Melville
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5.asp
  
• The Scarlet Letter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5b.asp
  
• Moby-Dick
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5d.asp
  
• Sarah Orne Jewett -- Maine's Treasure
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7a.asp
  
• Bret Harte: Scalawags and Scoundrels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7b.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8b.asp
  
• Stephen Crane Defines Courage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8c.asp
  
• Rags to Riches: Horatio Alger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8d.asp
  
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9a.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Charles Chesnutt
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9d.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• Louisa May Alcott
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10a.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Willa Cather: The Special Language of Loneliness
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10c.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• 'Dime' Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11b.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Upton Sinclair and the Novel of Social Outrage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12a.asp
  
• Theodore Dreiser
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12b.asp
  

Newspapers
• Revolutionary Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1e.asp
  
• Washington Irving and 'The Knickerbocker Tales'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2b.asp
  
• Growing Pains
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3c.asp
  
• Rise of the Ladies' Magazines
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3e.asp
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Sad Life and Times
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4.asp
  
• Creating the Detective Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4b.asp
  
• The Reticent Celebrity: Emily Dickinson
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6e.asp
  
• Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/8a.asp
  
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9a.asp
  
• Influence of Literary Magazines and Critics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11f.asp
  
• Upton Sinclair and the Novel of Social Outrage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12a.asp
  

Poetry
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Tiny Brush Strokes: Local Colorists 'Paint' America
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp