Speak to Me!: Great American Texts Demystified for Today's Text-messaging Students - Tapa blanda

From documents that our forefathers wrote to the more recent JFK's inaugural speech, Kaplan's Speak to Me! will make a valuable classroom tool for teachers.

Texts include:

1. The Mayflower Compact

2. Thomas Paine's Common Sense

3. The Declaration of Independence

4. Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

5. The Bill of Rights

6. Excerpt from Marbury v. Madison

7. “The Star Spangled Banner”

8. The Monroe Doctrine

9. The Gettysburg Address

10. Emancipation Proclamation

11. Sojourner's Truth “Ain't I a Woman?” Speech

12. Excerpt from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

13. Excerpt from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

14. John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Speech

15. Excerpt from Brown v. Board of Education

16. Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate