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The main page provides a course overview for the year.  More specific information can be found if you click on the links listed in the sidebar to the right.  Please let me know if you have any questions: lindsay.peifer@spps.org.  

Semester One

Quarter One and Two-- 

Week One

• Tuesday: Review syllabus and class expectations
• Wednesday: Cultural Literacy: The List
• Thursday: Why Do Americans Act Like That?
• Friday: The Nacerima

Week Two

• Monday: Finish Nacerima article, start Literary Analysis Review: LRJ Review, Critical Analysis of Poetry 
• Tuesday: Critical Analysis of Poetry written on An Elementary Class Room in a Slum 
• Wednesday: Critical Analysis of Prose on Chekhov short story "A Problem."
• Thursday: Discussion of critical analysis of prose and poetry.  Prepare for in class written commentary
• Friday: In class written commentary, turn in LRJ. 

Week Two-Three: Writing workshop and Comparative mythology—excerpts from The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ramayana, Sundiata, Aeneid

• Monday: Hero's Journey Notes
• Tuesday: Finish Hero's Journey Notes, watch excerpt of Joseph Campbell video "The Hero's Journey."
• Wednesday:  Assign Biography assignment, read sample biographies
• Thursday: excerpts from The Iliad
• Friday: exceprts from the Odyssey

• Week Four: Continue comparative mythology: Ramayana, Sundiata, Aeneid
• Week Five: The epic tradition and Antigone and the beginnings of English—excerpts from Beowulf
• Week Six-Seven: The Medieval period/early Renaissance—The Inferno, excerpts from The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Everyman
• Week Eight-Nine: The Renaissance and Dr. Faustus

Quarter Three and Four--

•    Shakespeare: Macbeth and As You Like It

•    Japanese literature

•    17th and 18th Century European literature

•    Chinese literature

•    Romanticism and Victorian literature

•    Independent Novel study

•    The Importance of Being Earnest

•    World Literature in the 20th Century--poetry and short stories