Short Nonfiction: English II

Literary Terms: Nonfiction

    • Edwards, Jonathan - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741)

    • Henry, Patrick - Speech in the Virginia Convention (1775)

    • Jefferson, Thomas - The Declaration of Independence (1776)

    • Paine, Thomas - Common Sense (1776)

    • Emerson, Ralph Waldo - excerpts from "Nature" (1836)

    • Emerson, Ralph Waldo - excerpts from "Self-Reliance" (1841)

    • Thoreau, Henry David - excerpts from "Civil Disobedience" (1849)

    • Thoreau, Henry David - excerpts from Walden (1854)

    • Lincoln, Abraham - "The Gettysburg Address" (1863)