Autobiography/Biography/Speech Boot Camp (Semester 1) Note: You must read at least ONE story from this list.
Readings	Degree of Difficulty
“A Day’s Wait” (Ernest Hemingway)	medium
from "A Lincoln Preface" (Carl Sandburg)	medium
"I Have a Dream" (Martin Luther King, Jr.)	medium (speech)
"Graduation" (Maya Angelou)	medium
"The New Frontier" (John F. Kennedy)	hard
"Two Views of the Mississippi" (Mark Twain)	easy
"New Directions" (Maya Angelou)	medium
"A Drift on a Pan of Ice" (Sir Wilfred Grenfell)	medium
"Alone" (Admiral Byrd)	medium