Easy 3 page essay... really easy..

Select at least two that you think have a valuable lesson to give to our society today.

Write an essay to a group or individual you believe would benefit from the lesson of that literature.  In your letter, summarize what happened in the selections of literature, explain the significance of the literature at that time, and explain how the lesson(s) should be applied.

Be certain to use proper MLA citation technique when using summary, paraphrase or quotation of the source material and include a properly formatted Works Cited page.

This 3-5 page double-spaced paper

HEre are the list you can choose two from

Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Birthmark"

Edgar Allan Poe: "Tell-Tale Heart" and "Annabel Lee"

Lincoln: (both addresses)

Sojourner Truth: Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (all sections)

Rebecca Harding Davis: Life in the Iron Mills

Letters of Christopher Columbus - First Voyage and Fourth Voyage;

William Bradford and Edward Winslow - The "First Encounter";

Mary Rowlandson - A Narrative of the Captivity (all)

Red Jacket: "Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram";

Tecumseh: "Speech to the Osages";

Freneau: "The Indian Burying Ground";

Franklin: "The Way to Wealth"

Wheatley: "On Being Brought..." and "To the University..."