The Osage Creation Account, from The Navajo Creation Myth

Song of the Sky Loom, Prayer to the Pacific

A Journey Through Texas

from The General History of Virginia, from Of Plymouth Plantation

from Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God

from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, from Poor Richard's Almanack

Speech in the Virginia Convention

from Common Sense, from The Crisis, No. 1

Declaration of Independence

Defend a Viewpoint

Thanatopsis

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, A Psalm of Life

from Nature, The Rhodora

from Walden, The Present

The Devil and Tom Walker

The Raven, Alone, Letter to John Allan, The Fall of the House of Usher

Describe a Setting

from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass

The Gettysburg Address, Letter to Mrs. Bixby, The Second Inaugural Address

from Preface to Leaves of Grass, from I Hear America Singing

By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame, Beat! Beat! Drums!, Matthew Brady: Civil War Photographer

Much Madness is divinest Sense, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—, Because I could not stop for Death—, This is my letter to the World, Battle for the Belle of Amherst

Solve a Problem

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How to Tell a Story

from Life on the Mississippi

To Build a Fire, How to Build a Campfire

I Will Fight No More Forever, I Am the Last of My Family

from Black Elk Speaks

Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring, Ain't I a Woman

The Destructive Male, Woman's Right to Suffrage, Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Story of an Hour

Create a Profile

from The Great Gatsby

from The Sun Also Rises, from For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Artist's Reward

The Red Wheelbarrow, This Is Just to Say, The Dance

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Poetry, Ars Poetica

A Wagner Matinee

Birches, from Robert Frost, A Life, Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man

Chicago, Grass

The Negro Speaks of Rivers, I, Too, Sing America, from The Big Sea

America, A Black Man Talks of Reaping

My City, Go Down, Death, from Black Manhattan

Write an Application Essay

from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

from The Grapes of Wrath, Letter to Elizabeth Otis

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, World War II Recruitment Posters

A Noiseless Flash, from Hiroshima

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

A Rose for Emily, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Darl from As I Lay Dying

A Worn Path, Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?

Create a Multimedia Presentation

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

The Magic Barrel

The Crucible, Act 1, from Why I Wrote "The Crucible": An Artist's Answer to Politics

The Crucible, Act 2

The Crucible, Act 3, Senate Hearings: McCarthy-Welch Exchange: "Have You No Sense of Decency?"

The Crucible, Act 4

Midway, U.S. Supreme Court Decision: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

from On the Road

A Supermarket in California

Review a Film or Play

Inaugural Address

Ambush

Camouflaging the Chimera, Monsoon Season

Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. King Arrested at Birmingham

The Rockpile, from On James Baldwin

from Report from Part One, To Black Women, The Explorer

from The Way to Rainy Mountain

The Starry Night, Morning Song, Mirror

Write a Descriptive Poem

Though We May Feel Alone, Dream, My Mother's Blue Bowl

The Names of Women

Mother Tongue

Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday

from The Great Plains, Seeing, from Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, So This Is Nebraska

Throughput, from Fast Food Nation

On the Mall

Couplet: Old-Timers' Day, Fenway Park, 1 May 1982, Letter in Autumn, Let Evening Come

Write a Research Paper