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Gifted English 10: World Literature and Composition

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Course Information:


Travelling Around the World through Literature

I look upon travel as a means of spiritual testing. What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, we are so far from our country . . . we are seized by an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. At that moment, we are feverish, but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depth of our being. By exercising our most intimate senses, we understand a culture. It is through travel that we learn about ourselves. (Albert Camus)

 


Unit 2: The Human Condition and the Search for Meaning

Essential Questions:

  • What does it mean to be human?
  • In the face of adversity, what causes some individuals to prevail while others fail?
  • How do humans attempt to understand and explain the world in which they live?
  • What is the meaning of life, and how does an individual’s perception of that meaning affect beliefs regarding death?
  • Are we governed/guided by fate, free will, a greater power, or do we fall somewhere on the spectrum between?
  •  How do we make decisions for ourselves about our identities in cultures where we are bombarded with other people trying to define us?

Literary Texts:

  • Antigone 
  • Brave New World

 

 

Week of 25 October 

  • 10/25/10  Unit 1 Socratic seminar continued
  • Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 7 & 8  
  • 10/27/10 brainstorming of border-crossing personal narrative assignment  (instructions)
  • introduction to unit: writing and discussion of essential questions (PPT) 

Week of 1 November 

  • reading and discussion of Brave New World chapter I (questions)
  • reading and discussion of Antigone pages 1-4 (questions

Week of 8 November

Week of 15 November

  • reading and discussion of Antigone pages 7-13 (questions
  • rhetorical analysis of magazine advertisements 
  • introduction to My Human Condition project (instructionsNPR's This I Beleive)
  • reading and discussion of Antigone pages 13-15 (questions) 

Week of 29 November 

  • 11/30/10 Brave New World chapters I-VIII (pages 1-141) DUE (vocabulary assignment)
  • Brave New World blog discussion question creation (instructions) 
  • reading and discussion of Antigone pages 15-22 (questions) 
  • 12/02/10 Brave New World chapters I-VIII blog post DUE [Edmodo (access code: x0x8pq), rubric] 
  • 12/02/10 border-crossing personal narrative draft DUE 
  • Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 7 & 8 review activity (sentences about Antigone)
  • independent work on My Human Condition project (instructionsNPR's This I Beleive) 
  • reading and discussion of Antigone pages 23-24, 25-29 (questions) 

Week of 6 December 

  • 12/6/10 Brave New World chapters IX-XIII (pages 142-202) DUE  (vocabulary assignment)
  • 12/6/10 QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 7 & 8 
  • 12/8/10 peer review of border-crossing personal narrative 
  • reading and discussion of Antigone pages 29-30, 30-35, 37-41, 42-43 (questions)
  • independent work on My Human Condition project (instructionsNPR's This I Beleive)  
  • 12/10/10 border-crossing personal narrative DUE 
  • 12/10/10 Brave New World chapters XIV-XVIII (pages 203-267) DUE (vocabulary assignment)
  • 12/10/10 Brave New World vocabulary DUE (vocabulary assignment

Week of 13 December

  • reading and discussion of Antigone pages 44-52 (questions 
  • 12/14/10  pre-final exam self-assessment (instructions
  • 12/14/10  Brave New World chapters IX-XVIII blog post DUE [Edmodo (access code: x0x8pq), rubric
  • 12/14/10 My Human Condition project DUE (instructionsNPR's This I Beleive
  • 12/17/10 FINAL EXAM  

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