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 Freudian, Social Learning Theory, Behaviorism, and/or Humanism to perform literary analysis. Students will establish learning communities based on learning styles, training styles, and personality traits informal testing to learn group dynamics and conflict resolution. Instruction will continue to provide preparation for State testing in reading and writing, 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.

• Ishmael
• Julius Caesar
• Lord of the Flies
• A Midsummer Night's Dream