American Studies

American Studies

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Quarter 1

Reconstruction

• Kindred (Assessments)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (Assessments)
• Nightjohn (Assessments)
• Sarny (Assessments)

Industrialization

• The Jungle (Assessments)

Immigration

• Bread Givers (Assessments)
  

Progressives

• Our Town (Assessments)
• Riding Freedom (Assessments)

Quarter 2

Imperialism

• Dragonwings (Assessments)

World War I

• Johnny Got His Gun

Roaring Twenties

• Of Mice and Men (Assessments)
• Great Gatsby

Great Depression

• Grapes of Wrath (Assessments)
• Bud, Not Buddy (Assessments) 

Quarter 3

Great Depression

• Cannery Row (Assessments)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Assessments)
• Where the Red Fern Grows (Assessments)

World War II

• Farewell to Manzanar (Assessments)
• Left for Dead (Assessments)
• Under the Blood-Red Sun  (Assessments)
• Number the Stars (Assessments)
• Code Talkers (Assessments)

Quarter 4

Cold War

• 13 Days (Assessments)

Civil Rights

• A Lesson Before Dying (Assessments)
• A Raisin in the Sun (Assessments)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham (Assessments)

Contemporary America

• The Circuit (Assessments)
• Breaking Through (Assessments)
• Catfish and Mandala (Assessments)
• Death Be Not Proud (Assessments)
• The Joy Luck Club (Assessments)
• Buried Onions (Assessments)