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Honors English 3 examines... __**Unit 1: Myth, Tragedy, and the Greek Model **__ Sophocles' //Oedipus Rex// Sophocles' //Antigone// Sophocles' //Electra// Euripedes' //Medea// (note: theater students only) The Aristotelian model of Tragedy Five components of Tragedy: (Anagnorisis, Catharsis, Pathos, Hamartia, Peripeteia) Problems with the Fatal Flaw/Tragic Hero model Rationalism and faith How do we define 'myth'? The Greek Gods The Science and History of the oracle at Delphi Myth stories from other cultures and ages Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" Dada and Surrealism <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pericles' Funeral Oration <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Freud: Repression, the Subconscious, and the Oedipus Complex <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chimamanda Adichie reads Jamaica Kincaid's "Figures in the Distance" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sappho "Ode to Aphrodite" and the sapphic stanza

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">MLA Paper Writing __** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿﻿Outline <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parenthetical Citation <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Block Quotes <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thesis Statement <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Introductory Paragraph <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Peer Editing <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bibliography

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Viral Video and 21st century story-telling **__﻿__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Problems with the author, the reader and the text <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Italo Calvino's //If on a Winter's Night a Traveler// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Roland Barthes' //The Death of the Author// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jorge Luis Borges' //Pierre Menard: Author of the Quixote// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Problems with reality <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Don Delillo's //White Noise// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jean Baudillard's //Similacra and Simulation// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Film as text: The Matrix <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jhumpa Lahiri's "A Temporary Matter" from //Interpreter of Maladies//
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">﻿Unit 2: The Short Story and Post-modern Literary Theory __**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The French Revolution <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Enlightenment <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Direct and Indirect Characterization <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The personal correspondence of Marie Antoinette <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Battle Hymns of the French Revolution <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Serial Novel <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Neoclassical Art <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jacques Louis David: "The Death of Marat", "The Oath of the Horatii", "The Death of Socrates" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Victorian "Angel in the House" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dickensian Characterization <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What is Feminist Literary Criticism? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lisa Robson's "The Angels in Dickens's House: Representation of Women in 'A Tale of Two Cities'" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Formal Essay: How to Write a Character Analysis
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Unit 3: Dickens' A __****__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Tale of Two Cities __**

=__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Unit 4: 19th c. British and American Romantic Poetry __= <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Poetic devices of all kinds <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Poetic Meter, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Form <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lauren Hill's "Everything is Everything" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">William Blake's Illuminated Manuscripts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Selected poems from William Blake's "Song of Innocence and Experience" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">William Wordsworth's "The World is too Much with Us" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Percy Byshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Edgar Allen Poe's "The Haunted Palace" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What is Postcolonial literary theory? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">MIA's "Paper Planes" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Phillis Wheatley "On being brought from Africa to America" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Life of Emily Dickinson <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Emily Dickinson's "Because I would not stop for Death--" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Billy Collins' "Undressing Emily Dickinson" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

**__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">UNIT 5-- Modernism: The Southern Gothic Novel and the Harlem Renaissance __**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">William Faulkner's //As I Lay Dying// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Zora Neale Hurston's //Their Eyes Were Watching God// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Southern Blues and Gospel from the 1930's: Tampa Red, Leadbelly, and "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold my Body Down" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Photographs of Dorothea Lange <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Imagist Poetry: William Carlos William's "This is just to Say" and Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cubism and Stream-of-Conscious Narrative: Pablo Picasso's "Guern ica" and Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons" selections Transcendentalism and Realism: Walt Whitman's "I sing America" and Langston Hughes's "I too sing America"