The Iroquois Constitution was the main influence of making The U.S Constitution. The Iroquois Constitution was made by "the prophet Deganawidah" to bring together the 5 Iroquois nations into a confederacy made for peace, unity, and decision making.

We read the "Iroquois Constitution"

The Plymouth Plantation is about a small group of people who left England to have religious freedom because back in England they didn't have that.

We read The Plymouth Plantation from when we went around discussing about the 3 different stories around the room.

On July 4th, 1776, The Declaration of Independence was made. The Declaration of Independence was made to separate the 13 colonies from Great Britain. As well as giving us individual rights and self government.

We read about the Impact of The Declaration of Independence.

Self Reliance By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, What the author was meaning while writing this story was to trust your own intuition rather than changing into what everyone else is doing.

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Self Reliance By: Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass.

The Open Boat talks about a crew trying to make it to shore, the 4 men are having to switch out posts to man the ores and keep the ship steady. However using this ores takes a huge tole on the person.

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The open boat by Stephen Crane

a pair of silk stockings by Kate Chopin

a ghost story by Mark Twain.

A Rose for Emily was a story wrote different that usual. the author told the story backwards by starting with the main character dying and the townspeople telling her story by remembering things about her.

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A Rose for Emily

Four Freedoms Speech by Franklin D Roosevelt

In Mother to son a mother is trying to encourage her son to go through life and keeping him learning about hardships in life

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Mother to son by Lanston Hughes

Harlem by Lanston Hughes

The lottery was about how a town did something called "the lottery" which was where the townspeople had to pick from a box to grab a piece of paper. if the paper had no marking on it you were safe, but if It had a black mark the townspeople would all grab rocks and brutally throw them at the person.

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Harrison Bergeron