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