Common Core Standards Initiative - Informational Texts: English Language Arts (Grades 11-CCR) lyrics

Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. Jefferson, Thomas. The Declaration of Independence. United States. The Bill of Rights (Amendments One through Ten of the United States Constitution). Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Society and Solitude.” Porter, Horace. “Lee Surrenders to Grant, April 9th, 1865.” Chesterton, G. K. “The Fallacy of Success.” Mencken, H. L. The American Language, 4th Edition. Wright, Richard. Black Boy. Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language.” Hofstadter, Richard. “Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.” Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.” Anaya, Rudolfo. “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”