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:
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
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 (instructions, NPR's This I Beleive)
- reading and discussion of Antigone pages 23-24, 25-29 (questions)
Week of 6 December
Week of 13 December
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