Overview

Students will continue to read and analyze world literature using Jungian archetypes to see human universals and the development of culture. Literature analysis will investigate how individuals form cultural and social groups, specifically tracking ideologies, belief structures, and roles common in Western Civilization in preparation for study of these elements in English 11: American Literature. Students will write in expository and persuasive modes, using primary and secondary sources to support assertions. Students will also write and read in preparation for State CIM testing, which will occur during this trimester.

Course Goals

•  Identify and analyze human universals in literature through archetypes expressed in cross-culture myths.

•  Identify and analyze socio-politic formations through literature.

•  Recognize individual choice and ethics working towards a personal recognition of morality and ethics.

•  Understand and analyze trends in the development of Western civilization from Sumerian to modern era.

•  Develop the ability to read for deeper meaning through high order thinking skills, response writing, narrative, expository, and persuasive essays, persuasive speeches, projects and presentations, and discussion.

•  Analyze texts for similarities and differences in the manifestation of archetypes (e.g. physical hero versus mental hero versus spiritual hero).

Core Curriculum

Elliott, George P. et al . Themes in World Literature . Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston . 1989.

•  A Midsummer Night's Dream

•  Lord of the Flies

•  Ishmael

•  Julius Caesar