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Excellence in Literature :: English V: World Literature (Honors Option)

Excellence in Literature

English V: World Literature

World Lit is here!

What does World Literature cover?

World Literature: Enlish 5- Excellence in Literature by Janice CampbellWorld Literature is a college-prep literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for literary quality, and for their place in the historical development of literature. Context readings provide background information about the author, the historical time and place, and the literary and artistic context of the focus work.

Students will gain an understanding of the development of world literature and will practice the skills of close literary analysis through essays, approach papers, and other evaluative and creative writing. You may learn more about how I chose the literature for Excellence in Literature in this blog post.

World Literature is a challenging course, and I recommend it for older students (12th grade). You may wish to take longer than four weeks for each unit, or you may even decide to skip a unit or two (some parents may not wish to cover Inferno and Faust). Whatever you choose, your student will grow in many ways through the study of some of the greatest literary works from around the world.

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Objectives

By the end of the course, students will:

  • Possess a broad knowledge of significant works of world literature.
  • Have specific understanding of selected representative texts by major authors of the times and places studied.
  • Have a general understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the works.
  • Be able to analyze literary texts and present thoughtfully developed ideas in writing.
  • Demonstrate competence in essay organization, style, and mechanics.
  • Demonstrate competence in the MLA style of source documentation

Table of Contents

    Introduction 5

    Overview and Objectives for Excellence in Literature 7

    Frequently Asked Questions 13

    How to Read a Book 19

    Discerning Worldview through Literary Periods 25

    Unit 1: The Odyssey by Homer
    Honors: The Iliad by Homer

    Unit 2: Antigone by Sophocles
    The Burial at Thebes: A Verson of Sophocles’ Antigone by Seamus Heaney
    Honors: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

    Unit 3: The Aeneid by Virgil
    Honors: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch

    Unit 4: Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante
    Honors: Paradisio and/or Purgatorio by Dante

    Unit 5: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
    Honors: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

    Unit 6: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
    Honors: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo or
    Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

    Unit 7: The Portable Nineteenth Century Russian Reader edited by George Gibian
    Honors: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Unit 8: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Honors: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (if you didn’t read it in English II) and The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

    Unit 9: Out of Africa and “Babette’s Feast” by Isak Dinesen
    Honors: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis

    Honors 105

    Formats and Models 107

    Approach Paper Format 108

    Historical Approach Paper Format 112

    Author Profile Format 114

    Literature Summary Format 114

    Sample Poetry Analysis 118

    What an MLA Formatted Essay Looks Like 120

    Excellence in Literature Evaluation Rubric 123

    Excellence in Literature Evaluation Rubric for IEW Students 125

    Student Evaluation Summary 127

    Glossary 129

    Selected Resources 139

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Note: Books listed are focus texts only. Honors and context reading is assigned on the syllabus.

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