Title: American Literature--third edition
Description: American Literature Student Text (3rd ed.) contains introductory essays for each unit providing an overview of the cultural and historical events and ideas influencing each literary period. The instruction for the literature selections is structured around the reading process approach. Students will improve close-reading skills with questions during reading that focus on the three strands of study: Analyze, Read, and Evaluate. - Publisher.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Imagination, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Louisiana, L’Abri
People: Peyton Farquhar, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmondé, Sandrine, La Blanche
Time periods: 1861-65, Civil War, 1861-1865, 19th century, Antebellum era