Amy, my senior year was world lit, ap. And I remember what we were studyin right before winter break--the inferno. Because then the school was set on fire, we got a couple days off, and the teacher called us all to cancel the exam!
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Mar 30, 2011 11:33:45 am PDT #14213 of 28290
Pix - Mar 30, 2011 11:52:37 am PDT #14214 of 28290
The status is NOT quo.
Junior year is almost always American Lit, fwiw. In a World Lit class (usually 10th or 12th grade) they often read a lot of British Lit unless they have a specific year devoted to that. If there isn't a Classical/Foundational Lit class, sometimes the classics get lumped in there too.
Classical Lit:
Odyssey/Iliad, Medea, Antigone, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Gilgamesh, Oedipus the King, Beowolf (I lump this in here since it's an early foundational text, despite being British)
Non-Brit World Lit:
Things Fall Apart, Don Quixote, Persepolis, One Hundred Years of Solitude, All Quiet on the Western Front, Cry, The Beloved Country, The Metamorphosis, The Good Earth, The God of Small Things, Candide, Wide Sargasso Sea, House of Spirits
Brit World Lit:
Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Othello (or other tragedy), Pride and Prejudice, Heart of Darkness (often taught in counterpoint to Thing Fall Apart to show colonialism and racism) and many others--I just hit some of the most popular choices for sophomores.
Amy - Mar 30, 2011 11:59:36 am PDT #14215 of 28290
Because books.
Ooh, meara. You guys pissed off Dante, clearly.
Thank you, Pix! Yeah, I'm seeing that World Lit would have been better as a senior class, but since Cold Kiss is done and I have them as juniors taking it, I'm stuck.
I like The Metamorphosis as a follow-up to The Stranger, so that's a good thing. For theme reasons, maybe I could work in Frankenstein later, too, because both of them work as things I could use symbolically. Thank you again!
Pix - Mar 30, 2011 12:00:00 pm PDT #14216 of 28290
The status is NOT quo.
Any time!
Just on a side note--that level of reading (Camus/Kafka) is really tough for most 10th/11th graders. Is the character in an Honors or AP class?
meara - Mar 30, 2011 12:26:07 pm PDT #14217 of 28290
Heh. I never read The Stranger, because the kids in higher level French had to read it in French, so they didn't put it in the English classes.
And as Pix said, we had British Lit sophomore year, American junior, and "World" (which included some British) senior year.
Ooh, meara. You guys pissed off Dante, clearly.
Well, it was the second time in four years (my freshman year and senior year) that someone tried to burn down the gym during the school day--I suspect I went to school with Buffy.
Volans - Mar 31, 2011 9:03:23 am PDT #14218 of 28290
move out and draw fire
We did Kafka in 10th (Honors), and never Camus, although I taught Camus to 12th grade IB students. FWIW. I think a flow from Camus to Kafka would be plausible tho.
javachik - Mar 31, 2011 9:13:55 am PDT #14219 of 28290
Our wings are not tired.
We did both in junior year AP but I think it went over most of the students' heads, actually.
Fred Pete - Mar 31, 2011 9:34:39 am PDT #14220 of 28290
Ann, that's a ferret.
I read The Plague by Camus for a world lit class in 11th. Definitely went over my head.
Pix - Mar 31, 2011 9:37:12 am PDT #14221 of 28290
The status is NOT quo.
It's on my mind because both are currently on my school's 10th grade syllabus, and even at a college-prep private school there are plenty of kids who aren't ready for that combo at that age. It's one of the things I'm looking at working with my department on this summer.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 31, 2011 9:43:56 am PDT #14222 of 28290
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
We did The Stranger and The Trial as part of an existentialism section of my senior year AP English class. Good stuff. Or maybe it was The Metamorphisis and I read The Trial on my own. Satre and No Exit had to wait until college.
Which reminds me of one of my favorite headlines - "Camus, dead? Absurd!"