english 10 literature lesson #41 mr. rinka literature review
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English 10 Literature Lesson #41Mr. Rinka
Literature Review
Greek TragediesLessons 1-8
The Greek Theater & Plays SophoclesTragic HeroThe Oedipus TrilogyConflict ResolutionAntigone
Greek Tragedies
Themes in Antigone:Civil DisobedienceState ControlConscience Versus Civil LawCitizenshipFamily LoyaltyHuman Error versus Divine Intervention
Greek Tragedies
On the final you will be asked to write a one paragraph description of Creon or Antigone.
Short StoriesLessons 9-21
The Monkey’s PawBy William Wyman Jacobs
Be careful what you wish for.
Short Stories
The InterlopersBy Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
We don’t have an infinite amount of time to resolve our differences.
Short Stories
The SniperBy Liam O’Flaherty
The price of war can make victory worthless.
Short Stories
Rules of the GameAmy Tan
Family and culture affect every aspect of our lives.
Short Stories
On the final you will be asked to write a one paragraph description of the irony in one of these short stories.
NovelLessons 22-32
The Pearl By John Steinbeck
Destructive Force of Greed
The Role of Fate on Human Life
Colonial Society’s Oppression of Native Cultures
NovelLessons 22-32
On the final you will be asked to write a four paragraph essay on one of these themes.
PoetryLessons 33-36
Ballads
A song or songlike poem that tells a story.
“Richard Cory”
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
http://www.bartleby.com/104/45.html
Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw30.html
Poetry
Pastoral Poetry
Poetry that depicts rustic life in idealized terms.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowehttp://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/35-pastoral-poetry-type.htm
The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=174384
Poetry
Haiku
A brief unrhymed, three-lined poem developed in Japan in the 1600’s.
Haiku by Matsuo Bashohttp://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/matsuo_basho/poems/401.html
Spring:A hill without a nameVeiled in morning mist.
Haiku by Matsuo Bashohttp://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/matsuo_basho/poems/401.html
The beginning of autumn:Sea and emerald paddyBoth the same green.
Haiku by Matsuo Bashohttp://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/matsuo_basho/poems/401.html
The winds of autumnBlow: yet still greenThe chestnut husks.
Haiku by Matsuo Bashohttp://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/matsuo_basho/poems/401.html
A flash of lightning:Into the gloomGoes the heron's cry
by Soseki (1275-1351)http://www.edu.pe.ca/stjean/playing%20with%20poetry/Hennessey/
Over the wintryforest, winds howl in ragewith no leaves to blow..
Nick Avishttp://webdelsol.com/Perihelion/acmarticle.htm
november nightfall the shadow of the headstone longer than the grave
Nature Haiku By: Emmi http://www.lovethepoem.com/haiku-poems/
Tulips are bloomingSun is out and shinning brightGreen grass is growing
Haiku By: Nicholas http://www.lovethepoem.com/haiku-poems/
Birds chirping a lotPeople singing all the timeBirds are going south!
Poetry
Ode
A complex, generally lengthy lyric poem on a serious subject.
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
by John Keatshttp://www.shmoop.com/ode-grecian-urn/
http://www.britishmuseum.org/images/ps285400_l.jpg
Poetry
Prose Poetry
Poetry written in prose form but using poetic devices to express a single emotion or idea.
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
By James Wrighthttp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15590
Spring and All
By William Carlos Williams
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15536
Poetry
Sonnet
A 14 lines poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one or several traditional rhyme schemes.
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29)
By William Shakespeare
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16230
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)
By William Shakespeare
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15811
Poetry
Lyric Poetry
Songlike poetry that expresses private emotions or thoughts.
Spring is like a perhaps hand
by E. E. Cummings
9. there are so many tictoc.
by E. E. Cummings
The Lamb
By William Blake
The Tyger
By William Blake
The Debt
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Summer
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Quilts
By Nikki Giovanni
My First Memory (of Librarians)
By Nikki Giovanni
PoetryLessons 33-36
On the final you will be asked to express your opinion of poetry in one paragraph.
EssaysLessons 37-38
“Which” by James Thurber
“Two Ways of Seeing a River” by Mark Twain
“You!” by Robert Benchley
Let Kids Rule the School
From The New York Times Editorial Page
March 14, 2011By Susan Engel
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/opinion/15engel.html?src=me&ref=gener
Simon Winchester's "Atlantic”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/05/AR2010110503497.html
The Washington Postreviewed by Ken RingleFriday, November 5, 2010; 12:53 PM
ATLANTIC
Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
By Simon Winchester
Harper. 495 pp. $27.99
Toy Story 3 Reviewhttp://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/06/toy_story_3_another_outing_for.html
The Times-Picayunereviewed by Mike ScottFriday, June 18, 2010; 5:00 PM
'Toy Story 3' review: Another outing for Woody and the gang, another masterpiece for Pixar
SpeechesLessons 38-40
“I Have a Dream”Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speeches
“The Gettysburg Address”Abraham Lincoln
Speeches
Inaugural Address 20 January 1961
John F. Kennedy
Speeches
Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
William Faulkner
English 10 Literature Lesson #41Mr. Rinka
Literature Review