This CCSS aligned unit provides a literary and historical overview of early American literature from the Native Americans', European explorers' and colonists’ perspective. Students read and analyze literary and informational texts, write a narrative and/or argumentative essay, and finish the unit with a test. This set includes the following:* Nine public domain readings including Native American creation myths, an excerpt of Columbus's journal, an excerpt of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca's journal