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Novels for Semester One
Class Novels
- 5 Classes
Quarter
One:
Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Quarter
Two:
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Outside
Novels for Reading Groups
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Heart Of Darkness And Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Turn Of The Screw And In The Cage - Henry James
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Four Great Plays - Ibsen
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
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Getting Started
- 4 Classes
Course Description and Expectations
Mock AP Exam
Discussion of Mock AP Exam,
including scoring guidelines, sample responses and scoring summary
Mock Paideia Seminar - Lost in the
Funhouse, Barth
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Elizabethan Period / The Renaissance
1500-1660 - 2 Classes
William Shakespeare -
Selected
Sonnets; Hamlet - Play; Twelfth Night - Play; The Taming of the Shrew -
Play
*Along with the tragedies, you should
read Sophocles The Three Theban Plays - Play
*See Also Laura Bohannan Shakespeare in the Bush - POD 179
*See Also Euripides Medea - OTAP 84
Christopher Marlowe -
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (BL Text 126)
Edmund Spencer -
From The Faerie Queen - BL Text 121
Sir Walter Raleigh -
The
Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (BL Text 126);
To His Son
Ben Johnson (Cavalier Poet) -
On My First Son (BL Text 216)
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Jacobean / Metaphysical Period
1603-1625 - 2 Classes
John Donne -
A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning (BL Text 213)
Francis Bacon -
from Of Studies - BL Text 209;
The
Life of Man
Andrew Marvell -
To His Coy
Mistress (BL Text 221)
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The Restoration 1660-1700
- 2 Classes
John Milton -
From
Paradise Lost, The Expulsion from Eden; from Book One of Paradise
Lost - BL Text 226
John Dryden - To the Memory of Mr. Oldham - BL Text 247;
A Song for St.
Cecilia’s Day
John Locke -
An Excerpt from An Essay on Human Understanding -
See the bottom of the
page (after the assignment, which you should ignore) for the excerpt
Moliere - Tartuffe - OTAP 275
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Augustan Age 1700-1745
- 2 Classes
Jonathan Swift -
A Modest Proposal (BL Text 259;
POD 422)
Alexander Pope -
Solitude: An Ode;
from An Essay on Man - BL Text 274
Daniel Defoe -
On
the Education of Women; From A Journal of the Plague Year - BL Text
294
*See Also Karen Horney The Dread of Women - POD 473
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Age of Sensibility / The Enlightenment
1745-1785 - 2
Classes
Samuel Johnson - On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet - BL Text 281
Henry Fielding -
Tom
Thumb, A Tragedy
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Romanticism, Light, Dark and Gothic
1785-1830 - 4
Classes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan - BL Text 317
William Wordsworth -
Lines
composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (BL Text 312)
John Keats -
Ode on a Grecian Urn (BL Text 333)
Jane Austin -
Jane Austin Letter to Fanny Knight - POD 22; Optional Novels
Anne Radcliffe -
Description and Narration in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho
(URL
Down?)
Lord Byron -
Darkness; She Walks in Beauty - BL Text 321
Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher - AL Text 194
Mary Wollencraft Shelley -
On
Ghosts
Washington Irving - The Devil and Tom Walker - AL Text 174
William Cullen Bryant - Thanatopsis - AL Text 187
Emily Dickinson - Selections - AL Text 332-343; Selections - SOW 39-43
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Victorian Period 1832-1901
- 2 Classes
Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Morte D'Arthur
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
How Do I Love Thee? (BL Text 383);
My Letters! all dead paper. . .(BL Text 383)
Charles Dickens -
The Schoolboy's Story; Tale of Two Cities - Novel
Samuel Pepys - Lif in London of the 1660's - POD 52
Charlotte Bronte - Optional Novels
Emily Bronte - Selected Poems - BL Text 379-381; Wuthering Heights - Novel
George Eliot - The Lifted Veil - BL Text 409
Thomas Hardy -
Selections from Satires of Circumstance; Selections from Poetry - BL Text
450-453; Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Novel
Gustave Flaubert - A Simple Heart - OTAP 61
Guy de Maupassant - The Devil - OTAP 320
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Transcendentalism / New England
Renaissance 1840-1865
- 2 Classes
Henry David Thoreau
- from Walden - AL Text 254; Writers Notebook - POD 83
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Selections - AL Text 240-247
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil - AL Text 268; The Scarlet
Letter - Novel
Herman Melville - from Moby Dick - AL Text 280;
Whiteness - POD 449
Walt Whitman - Selections - AL Text 398-408; Selections AL Text 25
Novels for Semester Two
Class Novels
Quarter
Three:
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Quarter
Four:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Outside
Novels for Reading Groups
The Shipping News - Marshall Paule
Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1984 - George Orwell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brian
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
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Close Reading of Hamlet
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Aestheticism and Decadence
1880-1901 - 1
Classes
Oscar
Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest - Play
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Realism 1865-1915
- 2 Classes
Mark Twain - The Notorious
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - AL Text 445; Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court - Novel; Huckleberry Finn - Novel; Roughing It - Novel
Bret Harte - The Outcasts of Poker Flat - AL Text 452
Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Novel; The Story of an Hour - AL Text 474
Henrik Ibsen - Four Great Plays - Novel;
Hedda Gabler - OTAP 126
Edith Wharton - Ethan Fromme - Novel
Anton Chekhov - The Darling - OTAP 46
Leo Tolstoy - A Prisoner in the Caucasus - OTAP 178
Luigi Pirandello - The Tight Frock Coat - OTAP 372
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Naturalism, Impressionism, Determinism
1900-1915 - 2
Classes
Ambrose Bierce - An Occurance a Owl Creek Bridge - AL Text 464
Charles Darwin - Tierra del Fuego POD 71
Jack London - To Build a Fire - AL Text 490
Stephen Crane - The Open Boat - AL Text 504
Edgar Lee Masters - Poetry Selections - AL Text 546-548
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Poetry Selections - AL Text
538-542
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Edwardian Period
1901-1914 - 2 Classes
H.G. Wells - The Star - BL Text 493;
The
Magic Shop
George Bernard Shaw -
from Major Barbara - BL Text 572; Pygmalion - BL
Text 511
William Butler Yeats - Selections - SOW 71-76;
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (BL Text 457);
When You are Old (BL Text 458)
Joseph Conrad - The Lagoon - BL Text 475; Heart of Darkness/Secret Sharer -
Novel
Rudyard Kipling -
The Wandering Jew; The Miracle of Purun Bhagat - BL Text 466
Henry James -
The Real Thing;
Turn Of The Screw
and In The Cage - Novel
E.M. Forster -
The Machine Stops
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Regionalism - Early 20th
Centuury - 2 Classes
Katherine Anne Porter -
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall - AL Text 606
William Faulkner - The Bear - AL Text 646; As I Lay Dying - Novel
Eudora Welty - A Worn Path - AL Text 622
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Modernism 1915-1946
Sherwood Anderson -
Sophistication - AL Text 570
John Steinbeck - Flight . AL Text 630
Ernest Hemingway - In Another Country - AL Text 580; Farewell to Arms - Novel;
The Sun Also Rises - Novel
Gertrude Stein - Selections - SOW 82-85
Ezra Pound - Selections - SOW 160-165; In a Station of the Metro - AL Text 700
T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock - SOW 169; Preludes - SOW 174
*See Also Conrad Aiken's Book Review An Anatomy of Melancholy
- POD 412
e.e. cummings - Selections - SOW 197-200; Selections - AL Text 760-763
William Carlos Williams - Selections . SOW 137-144
Robert Frost - Selections - AL Text 766-779
James Joyce - Eveline - BL Text 362; Clay; The Sisters
D.H. Lawrence - Tickets, Please - BL Text 640;
The Rocking-Horse Winner; Selections - SOW 150-153
Virginia Woolf - Three Pictures - BL Text 690;
Kew Gardens;
Mary Wollencraft - POD 198
Somerset Maugham -
The Lotus Eater; Of Human Bondage - Novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams - AL Text 588; The Great Gatsby - Novel
Arthur Miller - The Crucible - Play (AL Text 1034)
Elie Wiesel - The Scrolls, Too, Are Mortal - POD 108
Farley Mowat - Battle Tactics - POD 156
Karel Capek - The Last Judgement - OTAP - 28
Carlo Cassola - The Poor - OTAP 252
Alberto Moravia - Anguish - OTAP 332
Eugene Ionesco - Foursome - OTAP 344; The Photgraph of the Colonel - OTAP 485
Par Lagerkvist - The Children's Campaign - OTAP 429
Kume Masao - The Tiger - OTAP 455
Thomas Mann - The Infant Prodigy - OTAP 463
Federico Garcia Lorca - Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias - OTAP 519
Jorge Luis Borges - The Circular Ruins - OTAP 539
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Existentialism
Early 20th Century
Albert Camus - The Stranger - Novel;
The Guest - OTAP 350
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Wall - OTAP 196
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Post Modernism or Contemporary
1946 to Present
Dylan
Thomas - The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - BL Text 604
George Orwell - Why I Write - BL Text 692; 1984 - Novel;
Revenge is Sour - POD 380
John Updike - The Slump - AL Text 854
Kurt Vonnegut -
Harrison Bergeron
Sylvia Plath - Mirror - AL Text 1002
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman - Play
Tennessee Williams - Optional Plays
Ralph Ellison -
From Hidden Name and Complex Fate - AL Text 908;
Invisible Man - Novel
Toni Morrison -
Recitatif; Beloved - Novel
Maya Angelou -
Selections from the Academy of American Poets;
My Name is Margaret - POD 97
Jack Kerouac -
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity; On the Road - Novel
John Barth -
Virtuality
Allen Ginsberg - Selections - SOW 226-234
Theodore Roethke - Selections - AL Text 954-956
James Wright - Lying in a Hammock... - AL Text 1014
Marshall Paule - The Shipping News - Novel
John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy Of Dunces - Novel
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 - Novel
J.D. Salinger -
A Perfect Day for Bananafish; Franny and Zooey - Novel
Tim O'Brien -
The Things They Carried (Short Story & First Chapter of Novel); The Things
They Carried - Novel
*See Also Nicholas Tomalin The General Goes Zapping Charlie
Cong - POD 166
James Baldwin - The Rockpile - AL Text 844; My Dungeon Shook:
Letter to my Nephew - POD 42
*See Also Lerone Bennett, Jr. The Birth of Jim Crowe - POD
227
Annie Dillard - Seeing - POD 396
Franz Kafka - A Hunger Artist - OTAP 337
Ilse Aichinger - The Bound Man - OTAP 362
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General
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At times, we moved too quickly
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Give homework reminders at the end of class
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Keep pressure on after Christmas, especially with
reading
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Add more student-led work: teaching the class,
group work, leading a discussion, etc.
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Invite students to a Pot Luck dinner at the
beginning of the year
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NO JOURNAL OR PORTFOLIO OR Rework this idea
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Grading was fair and relevant
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Handouts
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Organize the handouts better
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Follow up on the handouts better
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Make some handouts only available online
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Allusions
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Keep weekly writing assignments BUT vary the
allusions with critiques, book or movie reviews, etc - something to help add
creative elements to their formal writing
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DUMP Noah, Daphne, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses
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Double check the actual readings - sometimes there
was more information if they would have read an additional verse or chapter
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Check order of myths and biblical allusions - it
doesn't make sense now
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All the good ones are later
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Novels
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Spend more time with On The Road after Christmas?
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Keep catalog of books read (basic plot stuff) for
individuals and for the class - Note Cards
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Share outside novels with the class
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Be more picky about outside novel choices (only
from the AP list, NOT from curricular areas at school
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See List of Novels for Class and Outside Reading
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Short Stories, Poetry and Non-Fiction
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In general, the texts were fine, but I need to pull
from a wider variety of sources and just make photocopies. This material
may be organized around periods (naturalism, modernism, post-modernism, etc.)
and terminology
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Do more poetry
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Keep Beloved, Scarlet Letter, Hamlet (Close
Reading), and, maybe, On the Road and As I Lay Dying
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Do a "Poem a Week" rather than a "Poem a Day"
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Discussions
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Continue to offer historical, philosophical, etc
background on the readings AND introduce more professional criticism
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ALWAYS, focus on the big picture, "the work as a
whole", BUT introduce and utilize more terminology
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Writing
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Essays are too rigidly structured - find ways to
make them more fluid and creative
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Use more peer editing, and consider a format for
peer editing
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Grade more essays (Long and Mock) online
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Mock AP's and Test Preparation
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More terminology
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Do one or two REAL TIMED AP's during the year -
three hour tests
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Focus on essays more than on multiple choice
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