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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