Hey kids -
Here's a list of what we have read and studied this school year - make sure you have your topic determined for tomorrow:
Unit I: Why Do We Read?
Handout: Four Kinds of Reading. Donald Hall
Handout: Lazy Eyes: How We Read Online. Slate. 2008
Handout: Why Women Read More than Men. NPR.
Handout: Today’s Kids Are, Like, Killing the English Language. Yeah, Right. Kirk Johnson
Handout: A Good Mystery: Why We Read. NY Times. 2007
Unit II: The Anglo Saxon Period
from Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Wife of Bath’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
“Oh My Sweet Carolina”, an essay by Nick Hornby
”Violent Media is Good for Kids" by Gerard Jones
"The Rite of War and the Warrior Psyche" by Sam Keen
Unit III: The Middle Ages
“Le Morte D’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory
from “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” translated by John Gardner
Film: King Arthur
Shakespearean Sonnets 29, 116, 130,
Spenserian Sonnets 30, 75
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
“The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
TV Clips: from The Office: Season Three – “The Coup”
Unit IV: The Restoration and 18th Century
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
TV Clips: from The Office: Season One - “Basketball”, “Diversity Day”
Various satirical articles from The Onion
Unit V: The Romantic Period
“The Tyger” by William Blake
Blake’s theories on Innocence, Experience, and Organized Innocence
Film: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth
“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
“Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode to Melancholy”, “When I Have Fears” by John Keats
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Settenfield
Unit VI: The Victorian Period
Film: The Freedom Writers
“My Last Duchess”, “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning
“Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Selection of Contemporary British Sonnets
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
“Channel Firing” by Thomas Hardy
“Bloodied” by Charles Johnson
Unit VII: 20th Century/Modernism
Film: Sliding Doors
“13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens
“13 Ways of Looking at Hip-Hop” by Vincent Toro
“Araby” by James Joyce
“The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
”Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell
"A Hanging" by George Orwell
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