Friday, January 23, 2009

Books I Teach

9 Quest:
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Of Mice and Men
  • The Piano Lesson
  • Death of a Salesman
  • My Antonia
  • Joy Luck Club
  • Our Town
  • House on Mango Street
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition (12)
  • Invisible Man
  • Crime and Punishment
  • short stories by Faulkner, Hemingway, Chopin, Ellison, Wright, Gogol, etc.
  • poetry, poetry, poetry
  • As I Lay Dying
  • In the Time of the Butterflies
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Hamlet
Perspectives in Language and Literature (World Lit 12)
  • excerpts from The Iliad, The Odyssey, Sundiata
  • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
  • Macbeth
  • Things Fall Apart
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • A Place Where the Sea Remembers
CIS Modern Fiction
  • Green Grass, Running Water
  • Going After Cacciato
  • Dreaming in Cuban
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Sula
  • The God of Small Things
  • Dubliners
  • Servants of the Map
10 IB
  • The Iliad
  • The Odyssey
  • The Aenead
  • Flood Myths
  • Creation Myths
  • Sundiata
  • Antigone
  • Beowulf
  • The Inferno
  • The Canterbury Tales
  • Decameron
  • Dr. Faustus
  • Everyman
  • Macbeth
  • As You Like It
  • excerpts from The Tale of Genji
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • various poems throughout course