World Lit II examines the essential question: How do humans express themselves through their political and personal relationships?
Full Class Novel
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
War Poetry
“A Song on the End of the World,” by Czeslaw Milosz
“Apathy” by Martin Niemoller
“The Moon at the Fortified Pass” by Li Po.
“Everything is Plundered” and “I am not one of Those Who Left the Land” by Anna Akhmatova
“A Call to Arms” by Callinus paired with Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”
“Russia 1812” from Victor Hugo’s The Expiation
“The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai
“Civilian and Soldier” by Wole Soyinka
“Thoughts of Hanoi” by Nguyen Thi Vinh
Political Short Stories/Excerpts
“Pericles’ Funeral Oration” from History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
“Two Friends” by Guy de Maupassant
Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet”
“Tribal Scars or The Voltaique” by Ousmane Sembene
“The Ultimate Safari” by Nadine Gordimer
Choice Novel Unit
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Waiting by Jin Ha
Political and Personal Relationships Through Drama
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Othello by William Shakespeare
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Political and Personal Relationships through film (and excerpts):
Lagaan
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Love poetry and short stories as time allows.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment