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12 th -grade Concept Requirements & Suggested Texts<br />

Concepts & Reading Requirements<br />

Systems: Genre: Tragedy<br />

Communication: Author’s Craft<br />

Aesthetics: Literary Elements<br />

Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />

Requirement: All students will analyze the evolution<br />

of the tragic hero to the anti-hero.<br />

Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />

Requirement: All students will analyze the influence<br />

of the epic through time to the roots of Imperialism.<br />

Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />

Aesthetics: Syntax<br />

Requirement: All students will read a piece of satire<br />

in relation to the evolution of language.<br />

Aesthetics: Style, Syntax<br />

Communication: Author’s Craft, Author’s<br />

Purpose<br />

Requirement: All students will evaluate author’s<br />

craft and purpose in a literary work.<br />

Universality: Theme<br />

Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />

Communication: Author’s Craft<br />

Requirement: All students will explore the literary<br />

movements of modernism and existentialism.<br />

Teachers should select texts appropriate for their students. The<br />

following texts are currently under consideration by grade-level<br />

teachers across the division.<br />

• Macbeth (Shakespeare)<br />

• King Lear (Shakespeare)<br />

• Hamlet (Shakespeare)<br />

• Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy)<br />

• Grendel (Gardner)<br />

• Master Harold and the Boys (Fugard)<br />

• Things Fall Apart (Achebe)<br />

• Beowulf<br />

• Grendel (Gardner)<br />

• Lord of the Flies (Golding)<br />

• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)<br />

• Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)<br />

• A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)<br />

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)<br />

• The Importance of Being Ernest (Wilde)<br />

• The Princess Bride (Goldman)<br />

• Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary & Essays<br />

• Grendel (Gardner)<br />

• Princess Bride (Goldman)<br />

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<br />

(Haddon)<br />

• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)<br />

• Poetry<br />

• 18 th Century Essays (Johnson, Addison, et al)<br />

• Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)<br />

• Brave New World (Huxley)<br />

• Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)<br />

• Alias Grace (Atwood)<br />

• Catch-22 (Heller)<br />

• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)<br />

• Waiting for Godot (Beckett)<br />

© <strong>Albemarle</strong> <strong>County</strong> Public Schools, May 2006 75

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