Literature

Literature Module 1
Beginning Our Literary Journey

• Entering into a Literary Experience

• The Red Hat
• A&P
• Oranges

• Responding to Literary Experiences
• Writing About What You Read
• How Use of Persona Affects Responses to Literature
  
  • The Road Not Taken
  • The Story of an Hour
• What Literature Contributes to Our Lives
• Literature Restores the Past
  
  • Dream Boogie
• Literature Stimulates the Imagination
  
  • The Fog
• Literature Glorifies the Commonplace
  
  • I Hear America Singing
• Literature Evokes Emotions and Links Feeling to Thinking
  
  • The Blue Bowl
• Literature Upholds a Vision of the Ideal
  
  • Excerpt from Ulysses
• A Story for Reflection
  
  • The Welcome Table

Literature Module 2
Introduction to the Short Story

• How Stories Began
• Features of the Short Story
  
  • Country Lovers
• Writing About Short Stories
• Journaling as an Analytical Resource
• Writing an Analytical Essay in Response to a Short Story
• The Poet – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature Module 3
Short Story Elements I

• Plot
• Point of View
• Tone
• Irony
• Illustrating Elements
  
  • The Gift of the Magi
• Examples of Irony
  
  • The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Literature Module 4
Short Story Elements II

• Setting
• Character
• An Annotated Story Illustrating Elements of Setting and Character
  
  • A Worn Path
• A Story for Reflection on the Elements of Setting and Character
  
  • The Things They Carried
  • The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Literature Module 5
Short Story Elements III

• Theme
• Symbolism
• An Annotated Story Illustrating Theme and Symbolism
  
  • Hills Like White Elephants
• Allegory – When Everything is a Symbol
• Motif – A Tool to Highlight Theme
• A Story Illustrating Allegory and Motif
  
  • Good Country People

Literature Module 6
Exploring Literary Concepts in Short Stories

• Exploring Plot and First-Person Point of View
  
  • How I Met My Husband
• Exploring Plot, Third Person Point of View, and Irony
  
  • The Diamond Necklace
• Exploring Theme and Symbolism
  
  • Cathedral
• Comparing Stories with Similar Themes
  
  • Story of the Lost Son
  • A Father’s Story
• Exploring Existential Thought
• Existential Themes in Literature: Abandonment, Despair, Anguish
  
  • A Hunger Artist

Literature Module 7
Poetry

• The Sound of Poetry
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
  
  • When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
• Free Verse and Haiku
  
  • The Red Wheelbarrow
  • The Apprentice Priestling
• Poetry is Evocative: It Draws Out Emotions
  
  • Boy at the Window
• Poetry is Imaginative: It Creates Images
• Poetry is Concise: It Compresses Ideas
• Poetry is Provocative: It Stimulates Thought
  
  • Wild Geese
• Poetry is Inspired by an Impulse for Artistic Expression
  
  • Constantly Risking Absurdity
  • Poetry
• Importance of Poetry
  
  • Amazing Grace
• Reading and Listening to Poetry
• Writing About Poetry
  
  • She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways
• Two Short Poems for Listening and Exploration
  
  • To Waken an Old Lady
  • We Real Cool

Literature Module 8
Identifying the Poet's Essential Tools

• The Speaker (Persona)
  
  • Not Waving but Drowning
  • I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
  • Chivalry
• Sounds and Moods
  
  • Preludes: I
  • Dover Beach
• Figurative Language
• Metaphor
  
  • O Captain! My Captain!
• Simile
  
  • The Oak
• Symbol
• Other Important Figures of Speech
  
  • Metonymy
  • Personification
  • Apostrophe
  • Hyberbole
• Theme
• How Imagery Reveals Theme
  
  • My Papa’s Waltz
• How Symbolism and Allusion Reveal Theme
  
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay
  • Home to Roost
• How Narrative (Storytelling) Reveals Theme
  
  • Hay for the Horses
• How Irony Reveals Theme
  
  • Peacock and Nightingale
• How Setting Reveals Theme
  
  • 347 [When night is almost done]
  • Meeting at Night
  • Parting at Morning
• How Time Contributes to the Development of Theme
  
  • To His Coy Mistress
  • The Raven

Literature Module 9
Forms of Poetry

• Narrative Poetry
• The Epic
• The Ballard
  
  • La Belle Dame sans Merci
  • The Boxer
• Lyric Poetry
  
  • She Walks in Beauty
• The Sonnet
  
  • On His Blindness
  • Sonnet
  • Ozymandias
• The Ode
  
  • A Morning Song
• The Elegy
  
  • In Memoriam A.H.H.
  • Futility
• The Dramatic Monologue
  
  • My Last Duchess

Literature Module 10
Poems for Reflection and Comparison

• Poems for Reflection
  
  • The New Colossus
  • Child of the Americas (1986)
  • The Unknown Citizen
  • You, Reader
  • The Garden of Love
  • Mirror
  • Elegy for Jane
  • What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl
  • The Solitary Reaper
  • To the One Upstairs
  • The Second Coming
• Poems for Comparison
• Two Shakespearean Sonnets
  
  • Sonnet 116
  • Sonnet 73
• Two Views on Acceptance
  
  • Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
  • Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
• Two Views on Love
  
  • How Do I Love Thee?
  • Prospice
• Two Views on Remembering the Past
  
  • Fern Hill
  • Tears, Idle Tears
• Two Views on Death
  
  • Because I Could Not Stop for Death
  • Buffalo Bill’s Defunct
• Two Views on the Value of Affluence
  
  • A Summer Morning
  • Richard Cory
• Two Views on Facing the Inevitable
  
  • Let Evening Come
  • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
• Two Views on Hope
  
  • Hope Is the Thing with Features

Literature Module 11
Drama: An Introduction and Greek Roots

• What is Drama?
• Performance: The Unique Art
• Elements of Drama
• Drama’s Greek Roots
• Performance in Greek Drama
• Comedy and Tragedy
• Sophocles and Oedipus Cycle
• Guidelines for Reading a Play
  
  • Antigone

Literature Module 12
Shakespearean Drama

• Who was William Shakespeare?
• The Globe Theater
• The Old Globe
• The New Globe
• Greek vs. Shakespearean Tragedy
• Reading Shakespeare: Poetry and Prose
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Characters
• Themes, Symbols, Motifs, Chance, Irony
• Scenes from Macbeth

Literature Module 13
Modern Drama

• Modern Dramas
  
  • Riders to the Sea (1902)
  • Trifles (1916)
• Modern Comedies
  
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
  • Mistaken Identity

**Outlines are subject to change, as courses and materials are updated.**