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Advanced Literature
Explore themes and motifs common to literature across genres and time periods.
Description
This class will explore several themes and motifs common to literature across genres and time periods. Through a curated selection of novels, plays, and poems, the student will be asked to consider, for example, the nature of a hero or the qualities of true justice. Works will include, but not be limited to, The Iliad (Homer), King Lear (Shakespeare), The Crucible (Miller), and Oedipus Rex (Sophocles). Grades will be based on reading notes, essays, and classroom discussion.
Requirements
and Prerequisites - (if applicable)
Prerequisite for this class will be prior participation in American or World Literature, or approval from Mrs. Gatchell.
Texts Required :
Oedipus Rex Sophocles translated by Robert Fagles. (Might also be called Oedipus the King and is part of a trio of plays called Three Theban Plays)
King Lear Shakespeare
Twelfth Night Shakespeare
The Crucible Arthur Miller
The Iliad Homer translated by Robert Fagles
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
Frankenstein Mary Shelley (1831 edition)
Job/the Bible ESV translation
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Peace Like a River Leif Enger
Weekly Tuition
$10/week
Class Fees
paid directly to the instructor
N/A
Instructor
Credits
Period
Term
Christine Gatchell
1 Credit
Period 2B: 10:40 - 11:40am
Full Year