High School Literature
Grade: 9 - 12 Min: 4 Max: 15 (15 seats remaining)
Min Assistants: 1 Max Assistants: 1 (1 seat remaining)
Come explore some of the greatest works of literature in the history of the world! This year, we will begin our literary journey off the shores of Greece and journey home with the battle-scarred Odysseus. Then we will take a tour through Hell. We will hear the incredible story of a slave whose journey to freedom inspired the abolitionist movement. And we will take a look at a world in the future that seems all too possible. We will journey to the East and explore some of the oldest stories in the oldest cultures, and we will top the year off with poetry from Japan to America. In short, we will see that stories told over centuries in different styles throughout cultures ring true and reflect our common humanity -- because they reflect aspects of the Truest Story, the Gospel.
Lots of reading. I will also assign occasional podcast episodes. A written narration each week and a comparison essay with the completion of each book. About 5 hours per week, which makes this class 1 English AP credit.
An end of the year paper on one of the works we read which you found most compelling
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Richard Lattimore (a free pdf of this will be linked in the class Canvas files) // Dante's Inferno by Algheri Dante, translated by John Ciardi (any translation you can afford will be fine, but I will be reading from Ciardi and his explanatory notes are especially helpful) // A Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass // A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens // Fareheit 451 by Ray Bradbury We will also have a short story unit and a poetry unit. These will make use of short stories available for free online and podcasts, also available for free.
$10 per semester for copies of stories and poems. Venmo @estherbills07
Reading, writing
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