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

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

Fictional novels
• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1.asp
  
• Sherwood Anderson: Life in a Small Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1a.asp
  
• Problems on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1c.asp
  
• Quick Cuts: John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1f.asp
  
• America -- Land of Opportunity? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2.asp
  
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3.asp
  
• Jack London's Adventure in the Klondike
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3a.asp
  
• Grapes of Wrath
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3c.asp
  
• Of Mice and Men
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3d.asp
  
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  
• Mexican-American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3f.asp
  
• Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5.asp
  
• 'A Dream Deferred': Langston Hughes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6c.asp
  
• Let There Be Light: The South Awakens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8.asp
  
• Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8a.asp
  
• William Faulkner
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8b.asp
  
• Flannery O'Connor and the Southern 'Gothic'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8e.asp
  
• Eudora Welty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8f.asp
  
• Innocent No More: Alienation in America
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9.asp
  
• A Separate Peace
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9a.asp
  
• Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9b.asp
  
• Adolescent Agony: The Catcher in the Rye
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9d.asp
  
• Philip Roth: Odd Man In
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9e.asp
  
• Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9h.asp
  
• William Faulkner
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8b.asp
  
• Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8c.asp
  
• Faulkner's 'The Bear'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8d.asp
  
• A Separate Peace
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9a.asp
  
• Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9b.asp
  
• Adolescent Agony: The Catcher in the Rye
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9d.asp
  
• Philip Roth: Odd Man In
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9e.asp
  
• Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9h.asp
  
• Total Request Live: 'Pop' Lit -- Instant Hit AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12a.asp
  
• Richard Wright: Native Son
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12b.asp
  
• James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12c.asp
  
• Toni Morrison
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12e.asp
  
• Alice Walker The Color Purple
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12f.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  
• Chaim Potok The Chosen
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13a.asp
  
• Sandra Cisneros 'The House on Mango Street'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13b.asp
  
• Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13c.asp
  
• Jamaica Kincaid -- 'Life is difficult and that's that'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13d.asp
  

Short stories
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  
• Mexican-American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3f.asp
  
• The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10.asp
  

Plays
• Thornton Wilder Our Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1b.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  

Literary classics
• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1.asp
  
• America -- Land of Opportunity? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2.asp
  
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Let There Be Light: The South Awakens AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8.asp
  
• Innocent No More: Alienation in America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9.asp
  
• The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10.asp
  
• O. Henry's Surprise Endings
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10a.asp
  
• Katherine Anne Porter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10b.asp
  
• Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10c.asp
  
• The New Yorker and its Writers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10d.asp
  
• Tillie Olsen: Ironing Out Riddles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10e.asp
  
• Shirley Jackson: 'The Lottery'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10f.asp
  
• Total Request Live: 'Pop' Lit -- Instant Hit
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11.asp
  
• Tarzan and Popular Reading
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11d.asp
  
• Detective Fiction
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11e.asp
  
• Gone with the Wind
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11f.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12a.asp
  
• Richard Wright: Native Son
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12b.asp
  
• James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12c.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  
• Toni Morrison
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12e.asp
  
• Alice Walker The Color Purple
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12f.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  
• Chaim Potok The Chosen
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13a.asp
  

Contemporary Works
• The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10.asp
  
• Beyond the Fringe: Raymond Carver
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10g.asp
  
• Total Request Live: 'Pop' Lit -- Instant Hit
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11.asp
  
• Ursula LeGuin: Sci-Fi Master
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11a.asp
  
• Isaac Asimov I Robot
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11b.asp
  
• Ray Bradbury Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11c.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• Toni Morrison
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12e.asp
  
• Alice Walker The Color Purple
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12f.asp
  
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Mari Evans, and Sonia Sanchez
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  
• Sandra Cisneros 'The House on Mango Street'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13b.asp
  
• Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13c.asp
  
• Jamaica Kincaid -- 'Life is difficult and that's that'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13d.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  

Biographies

• Sherwood Anderson: Life in a Small Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1a.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Quick Cuts: John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1f.asp
  
• Preserving Tradition: Isaac Bashevis Singer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2e.asp
  
• Jack London's Adventure in the Klondike
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3a.asp
  
• Steinbeck and the Social Conscience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3b.asp
  
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  
• Ezra Pound's Weighty Poetry
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4b.asp
  
• T.S. Eliot and the Modern Condition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4d.asp
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5b.asp
  
• Ernest Hemingway
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5d.asp
  
• Claude McKay 'If We Must Die'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6b.asp
  
• 'A Dream Deferred': Langston Hughes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6c.asp
  
• Countee Cullen: 'Any Human To Another'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6d.asp
  
• Eugene O'Neill
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7a.asp
  
• Tennessee Williams
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7b.asp
  
• Arthur Miller and the 1950s
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7e.asp
  
• Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8a.asp
  
• William Faulkner
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8b.asp
  
• Flannery O'Connor and the Southern 'Gothic'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8e.asp
  
• Eudora Welty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8f.asp
  
• The Loner: J.D. Salinger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9c.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Katherine Anne Porter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10b.asp
  
• Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10c.asp
  
• Tillie Olsen: Ironing Out Riddles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10e.asp
  
• Beyond the Fringe: Raymond Carver
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10g.asp
  
• Ursula LeGuin: Sci-Fi Master
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11a.asp
  
• Isaac Asimov I Robot
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11b.asp
  
• Ray Bradbury Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11c.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  

Cultures of the United States and the world

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2a.asp
  
• Anzia Yezierska and Bread Givers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2b.asp
  
• Preserving Tradition: Isaac Bashevis Singer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2e.asp
  
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  
• Mexican-American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3f.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  

Poetry

• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  

Nonprint texts such as pictures and paintings, video or film

• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  All Beyond Books literature programs contain nonprint texts such as pictures, video, or audio resources that students can use to help achieve this standard.
  

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The Periods

Rebuilding the Nation 1865-1914
• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• America -- Land of Opportunity?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2.asp
  
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2a.asp
  
• Anzia Yezierska and Bread Givers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2b.asp
  
• Sister Carrie
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2d.asp
  
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3.asp
  
• Jack London's Adventure in the Klondike
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3a.asp
  
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  
• Mexican-American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3f.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Edwin Arlington Robinson: 'Richard Cory'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4a.asp
  
• Ezra Pound's Weighty Poetry
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4b.asp
  
• Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  

Between the Wars 1914-1945
• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1.asp
  
• America -- Land of Opportunity?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2.asp
  
• Theodore Dreiser and An American Tragedy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2c.asp
  
• Preserving Tradition: Isaac Bashevis Singer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2e.asp
  
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3.asp
  
• Steinbeck and the Social Conscience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3b.asp
  
• Grapes of Wrath
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3c.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• E.E. Cummings
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4c.asp
  
• T.S. Eliot and the Modern Condition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4d.asp
  
• 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4e.asp
  
• The Waste Land
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4f.asp
  
• Confessions in Poetry: Lowell, Plath, and Sexton
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4g.asp
  
• Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Let There Be Light: The South Awakens AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8.asp
  
• Innocent No More: Alienation in America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9.asp
  
• The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10.asp
  
• Total Request Live: 'Pop' Lit -- Instant Hit AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  

The Genres

Biography
• Sherwood Anderson: Life in a Small Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1a.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Quick Cuts: John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1f.asp
  
• Preserving Tradition: Isaac Bashevis Singer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2e.asp
  
• Jack London's Adventure in the Klondike
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3a.asp
  
• Steinbeck and the Social Conscience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3b.asp
  
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  
• Ezra Pound's Weighty Poetry
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4b.asp
  
• T.S. Eliot and the Modern Condition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4d.asp
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5b.asp
  
• Ernest Hemingway
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5d.asp
  
• Claude McKay 'If We Must Die'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6b.asp
  
• 'A Dream Deferred': Langston Hughes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6c.asp
  
• Countee Cullen: 'Any Human To Another'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6d.asp
  
• Eugene O'Neill
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7a.asp
  
• Tennessee Williams
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7b.asp
  
• Arthur Miller and the 1950s
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7e.asp
  
• Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8a.asp
  
• William Faulkner
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8b.asp
  
• Flannery O'Connor and the Southern 'Gothic'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8e.asp
  
• Eudora Welty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8f.asp
  
• The Loner: J.D. Salinger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9c.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Katherine Anne Porter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10b.asp
  
• Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10c.asp
  
• Tillie Olsen: Ironing Out Riddles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10e.asp
  
• Beyond the Fringe: Raymond Carver
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10g.asp
  
• Ursula LeGuin: Sci-Fi Master
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11a.asp
  
• Isaac Asimov I Robot
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11b.asp
  
• Ray Bradbury Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11c.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  

Drama
• Thornton Wilder Our Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1b.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  

Essays
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from all Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Fictional short stories
• The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10.asp
  

Literary Criticism
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from all Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Novels
• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1.asp
  
• Sherwood Anderson: Life in a Small Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1a.asp
  
• Problems on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1c.asp
  
• Quick Cuts: John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1f.asp
  
• America -- Land of Opportunity? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2.asp
  
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3.asp
  
• Jack London's Adventure in the Klondike
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3a.asp
  
• Grapes of Wrath
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3c.asp
  
• Of Mice and Men
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3d.asp
  
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  
• Mexican-American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3f.asp
  
• Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5.asp
  
• 'A Dream Deferred': Langston Hughes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6c.asp
  
• Let There Be Light: The South Awakens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8.asp
  
• Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8a.asp
  
• William Faulkner
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8b.asp
  
• Flannery O'Connor and the Southern 'Gothic'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8e.asp
  
• Eudora Welty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8f.asp
  
• Innocent No More: Alienation in America
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9.asp
  
• A Separate Peace
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9a.asp
  
• Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9b.asp
  
• Adolescent Agony: The Catcher in the Rye
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9d.asp
  
• Philip Roth: Odd Man In
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9e.asp
  
• Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9h.asp
  
• William Faulkner
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8b.asp
  
• Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8c.asp
  
• Faulkner's 'The Bear'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8d.asp
  
• A Separate Peace
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9a.asp
  
• Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9b.asp
  
• Adolescent Agony: The Catcher in the Rye
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9d.asp
  
• Philip Roth: Odd Man In
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9e.asp
  
• Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9h.asp
  
• Total Request Live: 'Pop' Lit -- Instant Hit AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12a.asp
  
• Richard Wright: Native Son
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12b.asp
  
• James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12c.asp
  
• Toni Morrison
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12e.asp
  
• Alice Walker The Color Purple
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12f.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp
  
• Chaim Potok The Chosen
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13a.asp
  
• Sandra Cisneros 'The House on Mango Street'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13b.asp
  
• Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13c.asp
  
• Jamaica Kincaid -- 'Life is difficult and that's that'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13d.asp
  

Poetry
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp