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Advanced English II Reading List 2011-2012 Storytelling Summer Reading Unit Title Author Genre Country Time Location Dawn Elie Weisel Novel Hungary/Romania /France Late 20th century Book “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights Oral Tradition/ Anonymous Folk Tale India, Persia, Baghdad, Cairo 9th Century World Masterpieces p. 84-96 “Federigo’s Falcon” from The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Novella Florence, Italy Late 14th century World Masterpieces p. 742-750 “The Brave Little Tailor” Oral Tradition collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Folk Tale Germany Early 19th century Online http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm020 .html Promises (documentary) Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg Documentary Movie Israel Early 21st century Watch in class Creative Writing Masks Escape and Interpretation Essay handout Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Novel Nigeria 1959 Book “The Youngest Doll” Rosario Ferre Short Story Puerto Rico 20th century Reading the World p. 81-87 “From Behind the Veil” Dhu’l Nun Ayyoub Short story Iraq 20th century Reading the World p. 422-428 “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” Nadine Gordimer Short story South Africa 20th century Reading the World p. 333-339 “Another Evening at the Club” Alifa Rifaat Short story Egypt 20th century Reading the World p. 365-372 “Like the Sun” R.K. Narayan Short story India 20th century Reading the World p. 451-455 “No Witchcraft for Sale” Doris Lessing Short Story Zimbabwe/ England 20th century Reading the World p. 324-332 “The Vice Principal” Houshange MoradiKermani Short story Iran “Carapace” Romesh Gunesekera Short Story Sri Lanka/England 20th century The Odyssey Homer Epic Poem Greek-speaking region (now Turkey) 8th Century BCE 20th century Online (38 pages) http://www.npr.org/programs/mornin g/features/2006/oct/axislit/vice_prin cipal.pdf Online http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/tr y/resources/britlit/carapace Book Page 1 of 2 Advanced English II Reading List 2011-2012 Unit Title Author War Power Revenge and Justice Book of Choice (from list) Country Time Memoir Laura Blumenfeld Non-fiction USA “The Shoes” Nassar Ibrahim Short story Palestine “The Black Sheep” Italo Calvino Short story Cuba/Italy “The Guest” Albert Camus Short Story Algeria/France “The Last Judgment” Karel Capek Short story Czechoslovakia “The Saboteur” Ha Jin Short story China/USA The Inferno excerpts Dante Alighieri Epic poem Florence, Italy “Hanging in Chad” from This American Life Ira Glass Radio feature USA Macbeth William Shakespeare The Prince (excerpts) Niccolo Machiavelli “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses” Bessie Head Short story South Africa/ Botswana “Two Words” Isabel Allende Short story Chile “The Cabuliwallah” Rabindranath Tagore Short story India All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Novel Germany “Sugar Baby” Chinua Achebe Short Story Nigeria “In the Shadow of War” Ben Okri Short Story Nigeria/England “Loyalties” Adewale Maja-Pearce Short Story Nigeria/England Play (tragedy) Political treatise Location book Revenge: A Story of Hope excerpts Poetry Search for Meaning Genre England Florence, Italy 21st Early century Early 21st century 20th century 20th century Early 20th Century Late 20th century Early 14th century 21st century Early 17th century Early 16th century Late 20th century Late 20th century Late 19th century Early 20th century Late 20th century Late 20th century Late 20th century Poetry Handout Onlinehttp://www.wordswithoutborders. org/article.php?lab=IbrahimShoes Reading the World p. 193-195 World Masterpieces p. 1232-1246 Reading the World p. 205-210 Reading the World p. 495-507 World Masterpieces p. 665-671 and 683-690 Listen to in class http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.as px?episode=363 book handout Reading the World p. 340-347 Reading the World p. 442-450 book handout Reading the World p. 289-294 Reading the World p. 295-298 handouts 20th Siddhartha Herman Hesse Novel Germany Early century book Scent of Green Papaya Anh Hung Tran Film Vietnam 1990s film Readings on Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism handouts Page 2 of 2 Advanced English II Reading List 2011-2012 Page 3 of 2
