World Literature Scope and Sequence:
February 8 – 12: Introduction
Cornell Note Structure; Course Expectations; Art Overview
Practice Socratic Seminar: Taoist Aphorisms
February 16 – 26: Renaissance
Cornell Notes: Humanism; Medici Family
Music: Palestrina
Art: Botticelli, Leonardo DaVinci and Michelangelo
Literature: Excerpts: Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Cervantes’ Don
Quixote
Major Assessment(s): Notes Exam; Presentation of Hamlet’s
Soliloquies
March 1 – 5: Baroque
Cornell Notes: Religious Wars; Scientific Revolution
Music: Handel and Bach (HHS Pipe Organ)
Art: Rembrandt, Caravaggio, El Greco
Literature: John Donne
Major Assessment: Group Presentation and In-Class Essay:
John Donne’s Themes
March 8 – 26: Enlightenment
Cornell Notes: Major Names; Philosophical Optimism; Feminist
Foundations
Music: Mozart;
Film: Amadeus
Art: Verisimilitude
Literature: Excerpts from Voltaire’s Candide; Jonathan Swift’s
“A Modest Proposal”
Major Assessment(s): Socratic Seminar – Control;
Written/Presented Modest Proposal
April 19 – 23: Midterm Project
Group Research and PowerPoint Presentations
April 26 – May 7: Realism
Cornell Notes: WebQuest – Major Names; Communist
Manifesto; Evolution
Music: Berlioz, Stravinsky
Art: Impressionism – Manet, Monet, Seurat, Renoir, Van Gogh
Literature: Excerpts from Dostoevsky, Darwin, Marx, Nietzche
Assessments: Philosophical Chairs; Pointillism Project
May 10 – 28: Modernism
Cornell Notes: WWI; WW2; Freud; Existentialism
Music: Carmina Burana; Jazz and Big Band
Film: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis; Excerpt from “The Hours”
Art: Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso
Literature: Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse; T.S. Elliot’s
“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Hollow Men”;
James Joyce’s “Eveline”; Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
Major Assessments: Philosophical Chairs; Film Response –
Connection to Modernism; Socratic Seminar – Freud and Dream
Analysis; Analytical Essay
June 1 – 11: Post Modernism
Rise of Rock & Roll and television culture
Counter Culture
Generation X and Generation MySpace
June 14 – 18: Final Presentations
Roles and Responsibilities in a Media and Tech Savvy Society
March 29 – April 2: Spring Break
April 5 – 16: Romanticism
Cornell Notes: Romantic Poets
Music: Beethoven
Art: JMW Turner
Literature: Byron, Shelley, Keats
Film: Dead Poets’ Society
Assessment: Outline Exam – Thematic Comparison
Poem/Painting
Please Note:
All dates are approximations and are subject to change, and
additional content and assessments may be added throughout
the semester.
All changes will be announced during class time. Therefore, if
you are absent, you are responsible for finding out about any
missed assignments or date changes.