Classic Autobiographies – Transcript

Here is my personal transcript for the Ron Paul Curriculum’s Classical Autobiographies English class, listing all of the reading and writing assignments.

Reading assignments:

A Bus of My Own (1992), by Jim Lehrer

The Persecutor (1973), by Sergei Kourdakov

The Story of My Life (1903), by Hellen Keller

Up From Slavery (1901), by Booker T. Washington

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905), by George Washington Plunkitt

Mark Twain’s own Autobiography (1924), by Mark Twain

Geronimo (1906), by Geronimo

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1876), by Charles Darwin

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave (1856), by John Thompson

Twelve Years a Slave (1853), by Solomon Northup

Walden Pond (1853), by Henry D. Thoreau

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas (1845), by Fredrick Douglas

The Life of Equiano (1789), by Olaudah Equiano

Writing assignments:

Our Home: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/our-home-english-lesson-10-assignment/

Lehrer’s Providential Heart Attack: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2022/11/16/lehrers-providential-heart-attack-english-lesson-15/

Turning Points: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/turning-points-english-lesson-25/

Secret Police or Narcotics: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2022/12/28/secret-police-or-narcotics-english-lesson-30/

Sergei’s Use of Contrasts: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/01/06/353/

Lesson 40: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/english-lesson-40/

Be Cheerful: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/01/19/be-cheerful-english-lesson-45/

Lesson 50: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/english-lesson-50/

Why Slavery is Bad Economics: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/why-slavery-is-a-bad-system-english-lesson-55/

Lesson 60: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/02/09/english-lesson-60/

Capitalism of Elitism: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/capitalism-or-elitism-english-lesson-65/

Booker T. Washington: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/english-lesson-70/

Plunkitt: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/03/03/english-lesson-75-plunkitt/

Takeaways from Twain’s Autobiography: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/take-aways-from-twains-autobiography/

Five Reasons Why: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/five-reasons-why/

Why Write an Autobiography: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/why-write-an-autobiography/

My Target Audience: wordpress.com/2023/04/03/my-target-audience/

Avoid Filler and Write Purposefully: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/avoid-filler-write-purposefully/

Darwin’s Boring Autobiography: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/darwins-autobiography-its-kinda-boring/

John Thompson and the Great Slave Dilemma: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/john-thompson/

Thompson and Slavery: The South Had No Alibi: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/476/

Slavery and the Sorrow Factory: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/05/08/slavery-and-the-sorrow-factory/

Exception Contrasts in Twelve Years a Slave: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/05/30/twelve-years-a-slave-exceptional-contrasts-its-pretty-good/

Thoreau and the Division of Labor: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/thoreau-and-the-division-of-labor/

Walden Pond and Thoreau’s Backstory Dilemma: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/walden-pond-and-thoreaus-backstory-dilemma/

Life Philosophy: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/life-philosophy/

Walden Pond’s Decent Section: The Ant War: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/walden-ponds-decent-section-the-ant-war/

Cut the Fluff: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/06/29/cut-the-fluff/

My Mother’s War on Indoctrination: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/my-mothers-war-on-indoctrination/

Just Capitalize On It: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/07/19/just-capitalize-on-it/

Equiano: Time Changes Us: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/equiano-time-changes-us/

Write so People Will Listen: https://ashersisneros.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/write-so-people-will-listen/


2 thoughts on “Classic Autobiographies – Transcript

    1. Haha! Good guess, but not quite. I’m a senior in high school who just started 12th grade. As a senior, I need these transcripts for college applications, so I created a list of all my writing and reading assignments for the 9th grade English course. I’ll do the same thing for all the other grades, but I haven’t gotten there yet.

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