Unit 1: Social Class
How does the content go beyond the text to create social commentary?
What role does satire have in generating commentary on socioeconomic status?
How does dialogue and imagery reveal social class?
How is irony a necessary tool in analyzing social issues?
Readings
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
“Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
“Everyday Use”, Alice Walker p. 166
Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
Raymond Carver “Cathedral” p. 516
Dave Barry
“The War Prayer”, Mark Twain
Adrienne Rich “Power” p. 751
Toni Cade Bambara “The Lesson” p. 195
Readings on Literary Techniques
Tone p. 804
Humor and Irony p. 334
Figurative Language 3: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony p. 756
Understanding and Evaluating Fiction p. 100
Key Terms
Satire
Diction
Dialect/Colloquialisms
Tone
Irony
Documentation
Writings
Resume
College essay (exposition)
Summaries
Paraphrases
Poetry response #1
Comparative analysis of satirical pieces
Timed responses
Satire (creative)
Research paper development—MLA
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Fall 2014—Unit 1
Unit 2: Identity
How and why is the search for self an essential pattern in literature?
What elements of society work to define the parameters of self?
What elements of society work to act against an individual’s search for and understanding of self?
What literary elements are employed to create a notion of self?
Readings
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Poetics, Aristotle
Fences, August Wilson p. 1601
“Somebody” Danny Santiago
“Eleven”, Sandra Cisneros
“Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven”, Sherman Alexie
The Things They Carried excerpt, Tim O’Brien
“Essay on Man”, Alexander Pope
“Meditation 17” John Donne
Billy Collins “Introduction to Poetry” p. 732
Gary Soto “Small Town with One Road” p. 1005
Mark Doty “Charlie Howard’s Descent”
Langston Hughes “Cross” p. 693;“Dream Deferred” p. 732
Shakespeare “My Mistress’ Eyes” p. 809
Readings on Literary Technique
Characterization p. 161
Point of View p. 227
Denotation and Connotation p. 686
Writing About Literature p. 1-23
Key Terms:
Overview of literary devices
Point of view
Diction
Dialect/Colloquialisms
Irony
Writings
“This I Believe” essay
Poetry response #2
Summaries
Paraphrases
Informal and analytical response
Timed responses
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Unit 3: Immortality
What is the value of life inherent in the question of one’s mortality or one’s immortality?
How do mythological and Biblical notions of immortality inform our understanding?
How do authors wrestle with the notion of immortality and hence, mortality?
How do political, cultural, and historical shifts affect notion of mortality?
Readings
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Myth of Prometheus
Macbeth, Shakespeare
“Kubla Khan”, Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 951
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”, John Keats p. 918
“Ozymandius”, Percy Bysshe Shelley p. 764
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” Dylan Thomas p.889
“Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Two Words” Isabele Allende—blue world lit book
“A Very old Man with Enormous Wings” –blue world lit book Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The Moths” Helena Maria Viramontes
“Paradise Lost”, John Milton
Carolyn Forché “The Colonel” p. 961
Sylvia Plath p. 680, 726, 856, 986-988
Billy Collins “My Number” p. 801
Leslie Marmon Silko
Adrienne Rich “Diving into the Wreck” p. 938
“I heard a Fly Buzz—when I died-” Emily Dickinson p. 871
“Sonnet 18/ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Shakespeare p. 656
“That time of year” Shakespeare p. 887
“To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time”, Robert Herrick p. 742
Readings on Literary Techniques
Symbol, Allegory, Fantasy p. 274
Theme p. 188 + meaning and ideas p. 791
Imagery p. 700
Allusion p. 778
Understanding and Evaluating Drama p. 1030
Key Terms
TPFASTT form for poetic devices*
Enjambed/end stopped
Metaphor
Allusion
Syntax
Detail
Voice
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Writings
Comparative essay (expository)
2 Poetry explications (analytical)
Poetry response #3
Summaries
Paraphrases
Informal and analytical responses
Timed responses
Fall 2014—Unit 3
Unit 4: Motivation
How do authors exercise their use of language to create form and meaning?
How do authors depict the psychological dilemma informing a character’s motivation?
What role do catalysts (both individual and societal) have in propelling action?
How do historical and cultural beliefs of the author’s generation impact the work?
Readings
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Hamlet, Shakespeare
“2BR02B” Kurt Vonnegut
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
“Lottery”, Shirley Jackson p. 251
“Shakespeare in the Bush”, Laura Bohannan
“Shakespeare’s Sister”, Virginia Woolf
Shakespearean sonnets
Billy Collins “The History Teacher” p. 769
“Hills Like White Elephants”, Ernest Hemingway p. 268
William Wordsworth “The World is too much with us” p. 694
“Grief”, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Flannery O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find” p. 454
Jhumpa Lahiri “Interpreter of Maladies” p. 141
Shakespeare “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” p. 1001
Edgar Allen Poe “The Cask of Amontillado” p. 611
Dudley Randall “Ballad of Birmingham” + video clip p. 658
Readings on Literary Techniques
Musical Devices p. 822
Rhythm and meter p. 838
Pattern p. 883
Figurative Language 1: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy p. 714
Plot and Structure p. 103
Evaluating Poetry 1: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse p. 903
Key Terms
Poetic forms and devices
Motivation
Character development
Dialogue
Irony
Tragedy
Writings
Poetry response #4
Summaries
Paraphrases
Soliloquy analysis
2 Poetry explications
Timed responses
Psychological analysis
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Unit 5: Women
How are female characters represented through social, historical, and cultural norms?
In what ways do female characters work in response to societal expectations?
How do authors generate expectations of females? How are these expectations challenged?
How do these female characters assert their strength through or in spite of set roles?
Readings
The Awakening Kate Chopin
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen p. 1079
“Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner p. 556
“Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin
“Vindication of the Rights of Women”, Mary Wollstonecraft
Ursula K. Le Guin
Adrienne Rich
“In Search of My Mother’s Gardens”, Alice Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Updike “A&P” p. 619
Marge Piercy “Barbie Doll” p. 761
Key Terms
Irony
Paradox
Tone
Metonymy
Writings
Poetry response #5
Mixed genre analysis paper
Timed responses
Argumentation
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Fall 2014—Unit 5