Dr. Evelyn Schneider
Goshen High School
222 Scotchtown Avenue
Goshen, NY 10924
Voice: (845) 615-6100 E-Mail: eschneider@gcsny.org
WORLD LITERATURE, Eng 10H, Dr. Schneider (2012-13 tentative outline)
FIRST QUARTER
Unit 1: Cultural Identity
Literature:
References to A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (summer reading selection)
“Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; “Girl,” Jamaica Kinkaid; “Hold that Nose,” Lisa Miya-Jervis;
“Believers in Search of Piercing Insight,” D. James Romero; “My Hips, My Caderas,” by Alisa Valdes; “Never
Too Buff,” John McCloud
“Barbie,” Marge Piercy
“Erica Levine” (song)
ASSESSMENT:
Diagnostic Essay on The Iliad and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Differentiated Choice Board on Cultural Identity
Unit 2 Literature of the Ancient World Literature:
References to The Iliad, Homer (summer reading selection)
from The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sample Creation Stories from Around the World
Hebrew—“The Creation and the Fall” from Genesis
Greek—“Prometheus”
Native American—“Turtle Island”
Norse—“Odin and Ymir”
Chinese—“Pan Gu and NŸ Wa”
Eskimo—“The Pea Pod Man”
ASSESSMENT: Original Creation Myth
Unit 3: The Hero’s Journey
Literature:
References to The Iliad, Homer (summer reading selection)
From The Aeneid, by Virgil (“The Fall of Troy”)
Troy (DVD)
Smoke Signals (DVD based on Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven”)
from Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes
ASSESSMENT:
Hero’s Journey Essay
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT: First-Quarter Independent Novel Assignment
SECOND QUARTER
Unit 4: A Doll’s House
Literature:
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
ASSESSMENT:
Unit Exam on A Doll’s House
Doll’s House Essay
Unit 5: Author Study, Anton Chekhov
Literature: Stories, Anton Chekhov. trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Bantam
Books, 2000.
WRITING: In-Class Analytical Essay
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT: Second-Quarter Biography/Autobiography Assignment
THIRD QUARTER
Unit 6: Shakespeare
Literature:
Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare (with DVD)
ASSESSMENT:
Unit Exam on Twelfth Night
Shakespeare Essay with Differentiated Topics and Projects
Unit 7: Oedipus ( Mar. 5-March 30)
Literature:
Oedipus, by Sophocles
ASSESSMENT:
Unit Exam on Oedipus
Oedipus Differentiated Task
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT: Third-Quarter Independent Novel Assignment
FOURTH QUARTER
Unit 8: Antigone and Research Paper (with Research Question)
Literature:
Antigone, by Sophocles
ASSESSMENT:
Unit Exam on Antigone
MAJOR ASSIGMENT: Literary Research Paper on Antigone with Research Question
Unit 9: War
Literature:
“War,” Pirendello
Selected war poems from around the world: “The Diameter of a Bomb,” Yehuda Amichai; Nefarious War, by
Li Po (c. 750; Chinese); Poems of War and Peace: Voices from Contemporary Japanese Poets, by Chikurinkan;
Bertolt Brecht, Germany (1898-1956); Wislawa Szmborska, Polish; William Butler Yeats, Irish.
Lyrics for Anti-War Songs from the Sixties
Italian DVD, Life Is Beautiful (Holocaust, WWII)
Fourth-Quarter Independent Novel Assignment: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque
Assessment: Differentiated Project/Task for War Unit