Overview

Students will read and analyze world literature using Jungian archetypes to see human universals and the development of culture. Students will write in narrative, expository, and persuasive modes, using primary and secondary sources to support assertions. Students will learn to use Marxist Literary Criticism, Historical Literary Criticism, and elements of Feminist Literary Criticism to perform literary analysis. Students will give a persuasive speech using classical argumentation artistic and non-artistic proofs for the speech-writing process, and use PowerPoint as an organizational tool and visual aid. Instruction will provide preparation for State testing in reading and writing, which will occur in the spring.

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.

•  Gilgamesh

•  Antigone

•  Animal Farm

•  Classical Greco-Roman Mythology: Perseus, Theseus, Hercules, and other selections

•  Fahrenheit 451

•  The Power of One