Autumn 2016 Lee Allen, American School of Tangier, Morocco Students in Mr. Allen's AP English Language & Composition course are using the Genius Web Annotator on their cla** blog for their an*lysis of Freakonomics. Spring 2016 Lee Allen, American School of Tangier, Morocco AP English Literary Terms AP Lit "Adopt-a-Poem" Project AST English 9 Cla** Portal AST English 12 Cla** Portal AST AP English Cla** Portal Spring 2015 Lee Allen, American School of Tangier, Morocco Albert Camus - The Stranger Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye John Knowles - A Separate Peace William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying Willa Cather - My Antonia Edgar Allan Poe - The Cask of Amontillado Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities Harper Lee - To k** a Mockingbird George Orwell - Animal Farm Spring 2014 Lee Allen, American School of Tangier, Morocco • Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Aldous Huxley – Brave New World • Henrik Ibsen – A Doll's House • Christopher Marlowe – The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus • William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet Kevin Arnold, Kipp Impact Middle School (Jacksonville, FL) • Mr. Arnold – Western Frontier Conflict Causes the War of 1812 • Mr. Arnold – The War of 1812 • Mr. Arnold – Foreign Policy After the War of 1812 • Mr. Arnold – President Andrew Jackson and States' Rights • Mr. Arnold – President Jackson Attacks the National Bank • Mr. Arnold – Andrew Jackson's Policy on Indian Removal Lyrics • Mr. Arnold – The Seminole Resist Removal • Mr. Arnold – Trails to the West Dr. Catherine Bacon, St. Edward's University • Elizabeth Bowen – Excerpts from The Last September Gabriel Baker, Crane Country Day School (Santa Barbara, CA) • Cato – Precepts for His Son Alicia Becker, Los Osos High School • Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter Dr. David Bell, Duke University • Honoré de Balzac – La fille aux yeux d'or (pt. 1) • Honoré de Balzac – La fille aux yeux d'or (pt. 2) • Charles Baudelaire – L'homme des foules (pt. 1) • Charles Baudelaire – L'homme des foules (pt. 2) • Charles Baudelaire – Le Peintre de la vie moderne (extrait) • Bulletin des lois et décrets de la Commune, Pt. 1 • Bulletin des lois et décrets de la Commune, Pt. 2 Dr. Dorian Bell, University of California, Santa Cruz • Fredric Jameson – Modernism and Imperialism Ashley Bishop, Center Point High School • Ursula K. LeGuin – The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • Kurt Vonnegut – Harrison Bergeron Carrie Booms-Ryan, Abraham Lincoln High School (Omaha, Nebraska) • Ambrose Bierce – An Occurrence at Owl Creek • W.E.B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk • Langston Hughes – Cross • Langston Hughes – Mother to Son • Langston Hughes – Theme for English B • Langston Hughes – The Weary Blues • Henry James – Daisy Miller • Mark Twain – The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • Mary E. Wilkins – Revolt of Mother Rouven Brinkmann, University of Osnabrück • Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown • Washington Irving – Rip Van Winkle • Edgar Allen Poe – The Fall of the House of Usher Nika Cavat, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences (Santa Monica, CA) • Jack Kerouac – On the Road Jamie Cohen, Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto • Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha Alison Crevi, Laguna Blanca School (Laguna Beach, California) • Marcus Tullius Cicero – De Amicitia George Czar and Eric Samuelson, SciTech High (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) • The College Board – Bold Plans to Expand Access to Opportunity; Redesign of the SAT • Richard Connell – The Most Dangerous Game • O. Henry – The Gift of the Magi • Guy de Maupa**ant – The Necklace • Edgar Allen Poe – The Cask of Ammontillado • Saki – The Interlopers Dr. Ann David, St. Edward's University • Peter Johnston – Choice Words • Pauline Gibbons – Chapter 4, Engaging with Academic Literacy • Pauline Gibbons – Chapter 5, Supporting English Language Learners Dr. Jennifer Dellner, Ocean County College • Homer – The Iliad Carol Dube, Wellesley High School • F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby J.J. Eagleston, Aurora Quest • Robert Frost - The Bear • Robert Frost - Birches • Robert Frost - Ghost House • Robert Frost - Mending Wall • Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken Jessica Evans, Timber Creek Regional High School • Jeff Bell – Cheaters Never Win and Winners Never Cheat • Billy Collins – Introduction to Poetry • George Orwell – Animal Farm • Rolling Stone Lady Gaga Music Review • Leonard Pitts – Letter on Behalf of the 99 Percent Dr. Katy Evans, Westminster College • Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature • Langston Hughes – I, Too, Sing America • Langston Hughes – The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Rudyard Kipling – The White Man's Burden • Phillis Wheatley – On Being Brought from Africa to America Dr. Tony Fa**i, St. Stephen's Episcopal School • Herman Melville, Moby Dick Exequiel Ganding, University of California Berkeley • H. Samy Alim – Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-Literacy • James Paul Gee – “What is Literacy?” • Sylvia Scribner – Literacy in Three Metaphors Dr. Daniel Gerling, Augustana College • Horatio Alger – Ragged Dick • Emma Lazarus – The New Colossus Kirsten Geter, East Coweta High School • F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Thom Henes, Wellesley High School • Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice • John Milton – Paradise Lost • William Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare – Othello Amy Horan, Texas Christian University Texts • Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach • Thomas Hardy – Convergence of the Twain • Thomas Hardy – The Darkling Thrush • A.E. Housman – Is My Team Ploughing • William Butler Yeats – Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop • William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium Assignments • Intro to Poetry Annotation Assignment Dr. Noel Jackson, Ma**achusetts Institute of Technology • William Blake – Holy Thursday (Innocence) • William Blake – The Lamb • William Blake – A Little Boy Lost (Experience) • William Blake – London • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Dejection: An Ode • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • William Wordsworth – Resolution and Independence (or The Leech-Gatherer • William Wordsworth – The Ruined Cottage • William Wordsworth – The Thorn • William Wordsworth – We Are Seven Daniel Keefe, Haverford School • Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Sings • William Blake – London • Robert Creeley – Self-Portrait • Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken • Langston Hughes – The Negro Speaks of Rivers • William Ernest Henley – Invictus • Josephine Jacobsen – The Animals • Charles Lamb – Thoughtless Cruelty • D.H. Lawrence – Piano • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls • Edgar Allan Poe – Alone • Christina Rossetti – Uphill • William Shakespeare – Sonnet 18 • Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ozymandias • Lord Alfred Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade Dr. Akash Kumar, Columbia University • Dante Alighieri – Inferno, Canto 5 • Boccaccio – Decameron • Ovid – Metamorphosis • William Shakespeare – King Lear • Virgil – Aeneid Lydia Langerwerf, Lebanese American University • Homer – The Iliad (Nagy translation) Benjamin Levy, Denver Jewish Day School • Anne Frank – The Diary of Anne Frank (Selected Excerpts) • The Talmud – Brachot 27a • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Acharei Mot" • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Bechukotai” • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Behar" • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Kedoshim" • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Ki Tisa" • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Mishpatim” • The Torah - The Pentatuach's “Parashat Pekudei” • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Shemini" • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Terumah” • The Torah - The Pentatuach's “Parashat Tetzaveh” • The Torah - The Pentatuach's “Parashat Tsav" • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Vayakhel” • The Torah – The Pentatuach's “Parashat Vayikra" Mary Libertin, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania • James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway Sharon Lintz, Queenborough Community College • Kim Addonizio – Eating Together • Kim Addonizio – For Desire • Kim Addonizio – Heraclitean • David Bottom – Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump • Sandra Castillo – Christmas, 1970 • Dougla** Dunn – Men of Terry Street • Rhina P. Espaillat – Bilingual/Bilingüe • B.H. Fairchild – Old Men Playing Basketball • D. Glancy – Reservation for School Girls • Claude McKay – Tropics in New York • James McKean – Elegy for an Old Boxer • Naomi Shihab Nye – Two Countries • Simon J. Ortiz – Busted Boy • Michael Ryan – Hard Times Nate Mattson, Marshall School (Duluth, MN) • William Blake – The Lamb • William Blake – The Little Black Boy • William Blake – The Tyger • Lord Byron – When We Two Parted • Daniel Defoe – On the Education of Women • John Keats – Le Belle Dame Sans Merci • John Keats – To Autumn • Jonathan Swift – A Modest Proposal Terry Maxwell, Hesperia High School • Ezekial Fry - A Whale, by Any Other Name • Herman Melville - Moby Dick Claire Mittleman, Brentwood School • Countee Cullen – From the Dark Tower • Langston Hughes – Dream Variations • Langston Hughes – Theme for English B Jasmine Mulliken, Oklahoma State University • Arna Botemps – A Black Man Talks of Reaping • Countee Cullen – Saturday's Child • Countee Cullen – Yet Do I Marvel • Susan Glaspells – A Jury of Her Peers • Angelina Grimke – The Black Finger • Angelina Grimke – Tenebris • Langston Hughes – Harlem • Langston Hughes – I, Too, Sing America • Langston Hughes – The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Helene Johnson – Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem • Claude McKay – If We Must Die • Claude McKay – Tropics in New York • Claude McKay – The Harlem Dancer • Claude McKay – The White House • William Shakespeare – Hamlet Kris Murray, Sauk Valley Community College • Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight Final Scene • Wilfred Owens – Dulce et Decorum Est • Plato – The Republic (Book 7: The Allegory of the Cave) • Two Poems about Poetry Meera Nair, Fordham University Texts • Dorothy Allison – River of Names • Amy Hempel – Church Cancels Cow • Edward P. Jones – The First Day • Bobbie Ann Mason – Shiloh • Daniyal Mueenuddin – Nawabdin Electrician • Joyce Carol Oates – Where are you Going, Where have you Been? • Cynthia Ozick – The Shawl Assignments • Annotation Exercises for Fiction Boot Camp Julia Nelsen, UC Berkeley • Eugenio Montale – Maestrale • Eugenio Montale – Non chiederci la parola • Francesco Petrarca – Canzoniere I • Francesco Petrarca – Canzoniere CXXXIV • Francesco Petrarca – Canzoniere CLXXXIX • Gaspara Stampa — Rime I Phong Nguyen, University of Central Missouri Texts • Elizabeth Bishop – One Art • Sterling Brown – The Bitter Fruit of the Tree • Willa Cather – My Antonia • Emily Dickinson – After a great pain a formal feeling comes • Emily Dickinson – A bird came down • Emily Dickinson – Because I could not stop for d**h • Emily Dickinson – My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun • Emily Dickinson – Tell all the truth but tell it slant • Emily Dickinson – A narrow fellow in the gra** • Emily Dickinson – I taste a liquor never brewed • Emily Dickinson – Some keep the Sabbath going to church • Emily Dickinson – Success is counted sweetest • Emily Dickinson – The Brain—is wider than the Sky • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) – Helen • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) – Leda • Paul Laurence Dunbar – Harriet Beecher Stowe • Paul Laurence Dunbar – Sympathy • Paul Laurence Dunbar – We Wear the Mask • Robert Hayden – Those Winter Sundays • Langston Hughes – Mother to Son • Emma Lazarus – 1492 • Emma Lazarus – The New Colossus • Grace Paley – Here • Ezra Pound – A Pact • Theodore Roethke – My Papa's Waltz • Wallace Stevens – The Emperor of Ice Cream • Wallace Stevens – The Snow Man • William Carlos Williams – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus • William Carlos Williams – The Widow's Lament in Springtime Assignments • Annotation Assignment (American Literature 1865-Present) Stephen Nowicki and Rindy C. Anderson, Duke University • Malte Andersson – Female choice selects for extreme tail length in a widowbird • Patrick Bateson and Kevin N. Laland – Tinbergen's four questions: an appreciation and an update • Benjamin D. Charlton, Anna M. Taylor and David Reby – Are men better than women at acoustic size judgments? • N.B. Davies and T.R. Halliday – Deep croaks and fighting a**essment in toads Bufo bufo Sondra Obas, Alabama State University • Braille – Changed Hearts • Holy Bible (KJV) – Psalm 37 • Nikki Giovanni – Ego Tripping (there may be a reason) • Langston Hughes – Let America Be America Again • President Barack Obama – State of the Union 2014 Sean O'Donohue, University Prep Science + Math High School Texts • Rick Cohen – Reviving Detroit: 4 Arenas Where Nonprofits Can Act to Design a New Future • Detroit News – Detroit must mimic NYC in crime fight • Detroit News – Study cites Metro Detroit as high-tech hotbed • Homer – The Odyssey • Christopher Myers – The Apartheid of Children's Literature • Walter Dean Myers – Where are the People of Color in Children's Books • Ashley Woods – Detroit Doesn't Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People Assignments • News Article Annotation Assignment Ish**a Pande, Queen's University • Richard Burton – "About Women Acting the Part of a Man" from Vatsyayana's Kamasutra • Richard Burton – Of the way how to begin and how to end the congress" from Vatsyayana's Kamasutra • Havelock Ellis – "Chapter 3: Prostitution" from Studies in the Psychology of Sex • Havelock Ellis – On the Causes of Prostitution from Studies in the Psychology of Sex • Havelock Ellis – Sexual Inversion in Men • Havelock Ellis – Sexual Inversion in Women • Richard von Kraft-Ebing – "Physiological Facts" from Psychopathia Sexualis • Margaret Sanger – The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery • Margaret Sanger – The Wickedness of Creating Large Families • Margaret Sanger – Family Limitation • Marie Carmichael Stopes – "Abstinence" from Married Love • Marie Carmichael Stopes – The Fundamental Pulse • Marie Carmichael Stopes – "Mutual Adjustment" from Married Love • Marie Carmichael Stopes – Introductory Pa**ages from Wise Parenthood Á.J. Peñalver, Colegio Arzobispal (Madrid, Spain) Assignments • Instrucciones sobre las actividades en PG Texts • Dámaso Alonso – De profundis • Federico García Lorca – Reyerta • Antonio Machado – Allá en las tierras altas • Antonio Machado – Anoche mientras dormía • Antonio Machado – He andado muchos caminos • Antonio Machado – La noria • Antonio Machado – Retrato • Antonio Machado – Recuerdo infantil • Antonio Machado – Yo voy soñando caminos • Jorge Manrique – Coplas a la muerte de su padre • Pedro Salinas – Underwood girls Matthew John Phillips, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey • Percy Bysshe Shelley – Mont Blanc Freda Potter, Southside High School • William Shakespeare – Sonnet 97 • William Shakespeare – Sonnet 130 Dr. Howard Rambsy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville • Howard Rambsy II – English 343: Becoming a RapGenius (Spring 2014) Texts • Frederick Dougla** – A Pertinent Question • Lewis Gordon – Black Intellectual Tradition • Lauryn Hill – War in the Mind (Freedom Time) • Zora Neale Hurston – How It Feels to Be Colored Me • Jay Electronica – Exhibit C • Jay-Z – We Made It • Adrian Matejka – Battle Royale • Adrian Matejka – Blues His Sweetie Gives to Me • Adrian Matejka – Shadow Boxing • Runaway Slave Ads • Margaret Walker – For My People Shannon Ramsey, Joseph A. Foran High School Assignments • AP Literature and Composition Poetry Project Texts • W.H. Auden – The Unknown Citizen • W.H. Auden – Clocks and Lovers • Billy Collins – The History Teacher • Emily Dickinson – The Last Night that She Lived • Emily Dickinson – We Grow Accustomed to the Dark • Paul Laurence Dunbar – Dougla** • Mark Doty – Golden Retrievals • Richard Eberhart – The Groundhog • Edward Field – Icarus • Robert Frost – The Most of It • Seamus Heaney – Blackberry Picking • A.E. Housman – When I Was One-And-Twenty • Ted Hughes – Hawk Roosting • John Keats – Bright Star • D.H. Lawrence – Piano • Robert Pack – An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page • Edgar Allen Poe – To Helen • William Stafford – Five A.M. • Anne Stevenson – Eros Leigh Redemer, Bonn International School • Martin Luther King Jr. – Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Jo Rohde and Aaron Zilbermann, North Dallas High School • F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Dan Rosenberg, University of Georgia • John Berryman – Dream Song 1 • John Berryman – Dream Song 2 [Big bu*tons, Cornets: the advance] • John Berryman – Dream Song 3 [A Stimulant for an Old Beast] • John Berryman – Dream Song 4 • John Berryman – Dream Song 5 • John Berryman – Dream Song 6 [A Capital at Wells] • John Berryman – Dream Song 7 ['The Prisoner of Shark Island' with Paul Mun] • John Berryman – Dream Song 8 • John Berryman – Dream Song 9 • John Berryman – Dream Song 10 • John Berryman – Dream Song 11 • John Berryman – Dream Song 12 [Sabbath] • John Berryman – Dream Song 13 • John Berryman – Dream Song 14 • John Berryman – Dream Song 29 • John Berryman – Dream Song 37 • John Berryman – Dream Song 384 Grant Schubert, Rock Valley College • Jonathan Swift – A Modest Proposal Erin Sledd, Southern Polytechnic State University • T.S. Eliot – The Four Quartets Kyle Smith, University of Toronto • The Deacon James – The Life of Saint Pelagia the Harlot Jeanne Stephens, The Laurel School (Shaker Heights, Ohio) • Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway Benjamin Tress, Commonwealth Academy • Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness • Mikhail Gorbachev – Perestroika Kacy Tillman, University of Tampa
• Paul Laurence Dunbar – We Wear the Mask • Robert Frost – Design • Robert Frost – Mending Wall • Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken • Robert Frost – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening • Langston Hughes – I, Too, Sing America • Langston Hughes – The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Langston Hughes – The Weary Blues • Georgia Douglas Johnson – The Heart of a Woman • Flannery O'Connor – A Good Man is Hard to Find • Flannery O'Connor – Good Country People • William Carlos Williams – This is Just to Say Matt Varnell, Berkmar High School Assignments • Brain Crank Warm Up Exercises • It's All in the Details • Gateway Social Studies Essay • Julius Caesar Character Studies • Reading the Bard Like a Boss Interactive Lecture Claire Walter, Wolcott School • William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet • William Shakespeare – Macbeth Abby Walthausen, Bishop Loughlin High School Assignments • Guidelines for Annotation Assignments Texts • Countee Cullen – She of the Dancing Feet Sings • Emily Dickinson – Did the Harebell loose her girdle • Langston Hughes – Bouquet • Nella Larsen – Pa**ing, Part One • Claude McKay – Birds of Prey • Cole Porter – Just One of Those Things • Jean Toomer – Reapers • Oscar Wilde – Helas Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi • Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - In Reply to a Gentlemean from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better Be a Man • Mary Rowlandson – Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson • Phillis Wheatley – On Being Brought from Africa to America • Walt Whitman – Song of Myself Brian Wogensen, Archer School for Girls • Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish (Excerpt) • Kurt Vonnegut – Harrison Bergeron Dr. Grant Wythoff, Columbia University • Aristophanes – Lysistrata Aaron Zacks, University of Texas at Austin • Daily Texan Editorial Board – "Honest" transcript bill won't stop grade inflation at UT • Brett Donohoe – Throwback Thursday: Student drinking can be treated as a tribal ritual • Wescott Ebert – Texas to begin beer sales at athletics events • Jasmine Johnson – Red McComb's comments on Charlie Strong show racial tension is alive and well at UT • Hunter S. Thompson – The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved • Michael J. Sandel – Excerpt from the Introduction of What Money Can't Buy Fall 2013 Instructor Kristen Aldebol, University of California, Davis • Geoffrey Chaucer – Truth • Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales Lee Allen, American School of Tangier, Morocco • Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart • Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Are Watching God • Edgar Allan Poe – The Cask of Amontillado Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Stanford University • Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen – Giving 2.0: Getting Together to Give • Paul N. Bloom & J. Gregory Dees – Cultivate Your Ecosystem • Emmett D. Carson – Redefining Community Foundations • Judith Rodin & Nancy MacPherson – Shared Outcomes • Kevin Starr – The Trouble With Impact Investing: P1 Amina Baaith, Wilmington Friends School • W. H. Auden – Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone • Billy Collins – Sweet Talk • E. E. Cummings – If freckles were lovely • Emily Dickinson – There is no frigate like a book (1263) • F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (Chapter IX) • Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken • Seamus Heaney – Digging • Mario Vargas Llosa – Why Literature • Mary Oliver – The Black Snake • Mary Oliver – Farm Country • William Shakespeare – Sonnet Seventy Three • Jean Toomer – Reapers • John Updike – A&P • Walt Whitman – I Hear America Singing • William Wordsworth – The world is too much with us... Dr. David Bell, Duke University • Judith Butler – Gender Trouble • Fredric Jameson – Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism • Friedrich Kittler – Gramophone, Film, Typewriter Dr. Elisa Beshero-Bondar, University of Pittsburgh--Greensburg Texts: • George Gordon, Lord Byron – Darkness • George Gordon, Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Eolian Harp • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Frost at Midnight • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner In Seven parts, from Sibylline Leaves (1817) • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Christabel • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Raven or, A Christmas Tale, Told by a School-boy to His Little Brothers and Sisters • Charlotte Smith – The Sea View • Charlotte Smith – The Swallow • Charlotte Smith – To Night • Charlotte Smith – Written in the churchyard at Middleton in Suss** • Charlotte Smith - The Glow Worm • Charlotte Smith - The Gossamer Assignments: • Collaborative Annotation Exercise • Adopt an early 19th-c. Poem: Annotation and Explication Assignment Jeffrey Boakye, School 21 • William Shakespeare – Macbeth Jens Bonk, University of Osnabrück Texts: • William Faulkner - A Rose For Emily • Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken • Edgar Allan Poe - The Bells • Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart • William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet Assignments: • Mad Study Sk**s Carrie Booms-Ryan, Abraham Lincoln High School (Omaha, Nebraska) • Ambrose Bierce – An Occurrence at Owl Creek • Willilam Dean Howells – Editha • Henry James - Daisy Miller Bill Bravmann, Maret School • Samuel Huntington – Clash of Civilizations? Matthew Briggs, Commonwealth Academy (Alexandria, Virginia) Texts: • 2Pac - Changes • Maya Angelou – Chapter 23 of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • Amy Tan – The Rules of the Game • Richard Connell – The Most Dangerous Game • George Orwell – Animal Farm Background Materials on Russian Revolution: • February Revolution • Lenin's Economic Policy • October Revolution • Stalin's Rise to Power • Tsar Nicholas II's Incompetence Assignments: •Cross-Curricular "J-Term" Project on News Genius • Literary Terms Review Guide • Annotating Allusions in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • Animal Farm Honors Project Rouven Brinkmann, University of Osnabrück Texts: • William Faulkner - A Rose For Emily • Robert Frost - Out, Out • Robert Frost - Mending Wall • Nathaniel Hawthorne - Mosses from an Old Manse • Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants • Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est • Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart • Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe - Sonnet - To Science • Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain! Daniel E. Burke, Marquette University Texts: • Anton Chekhov – The Cherry Orchard • Euripides – The Bacchae • Henrik Ibsen – Enemy of the People • Frank Wedekind – Spring Awakening • William Wycherley – The Country Wife Teaching Resources: • Glossary of Drama Terms • Cla** Roster Sheet • Dialogue Assignment Sheet Dr. Russell Cobb, University of Alberta • Latin American Popular Music Assignment: • Rock Genius Annotation Portfolio Assignment Angel Cora, Morristown High School Texts: • F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby • W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw Dr. Ann David, St. Edward's University • Pauline Gibbons – Engaging with Academic Literacy (Chapter 4, English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone) • Pauline Gibbons – Intellectual Practices for ELL students • Pauline Gibbons – Literacy in the Curriculum (Chapter 3, English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone) • Henry Jenkins – Reconsidering Digital Immigrants • Clive Thompson – Relying on Algorithms and Bots Can Be Really, Really Dangerous James Dunford, Carr Manor Community School • W. H. Auden – Refugee Blues Exequiel Ganding, Berkeley City College • Malcolm Gladwell (selections) Matt Gill, Commonwealth Academy (Alexandria, Virginia) • The U.S. Constitution Hala Herbly, University of Texas at Austin • Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Aurora Leigh • Christina Rossetti – Goblin Market Kyle Jones, Sacred Heart Academy (St. Louis, Missouri) • George Marshall – The Marshall Plan Dr. Roy Kamada, Emerson College • T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land • Derek Walcott – The Schooner Flight Dr. Erin Kappler, University of Maine at Farmington • Edgar Lee Masters – The Spooniad Jon Lepofksy, Carolina Friends School • William Shakespeare – King Lear Dr. Lynn Maxwell, Spellman College • Anonymous – The Corpus Christi Carol • Anonymous – Summer is Icumen In • Anonymous – Ye That Pasen by the Weye • Geoffrey Chaucer – The Love Unfeigned Israel McMullin, Stanford University • Holy Bible (Greek) – John Kevin McNulty, Seton Hall Preparatory School • Elohist – Binding of Isaac Adam Mendola, Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School • June Jordan – Poem About My Rights • Talib Kweli – Get By Katie Moulder, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics • Edward Taylor – Huswifery T. Nathan, Leventhorpe Academy • Carol Ann Duffy – Human Interest • Ted Hughes – Hawk Roosting • Edward Muir – The Interrogation Jennifer Nauss, Maret School • Kate Chopin – The Awakening Dr. Phong Nguyen, University of Central Missouri • Willa Cather – My Antonia Assignments: • My Antonia Annotation Assignment Sean O'Donohue, University Prep Science + Math High School • Maya Angelou – Graduation Day Assignment: • Potential Annotation Roles G.D. Peters, City College of New York • Tadeusz Borowski – This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen • Shirley Jackson – The Lottery • Tim O'Brien – How to Tell a True War Story • Flannery O'Connor – A Good Man Is Hard To Find G.D. Peters, Lehman College • Les Christie – Young and smart, but Millennials face homebuying hurdles • Stephanie Clifford – That ‘Made in U.S.A.' Premium • Donna Fenn – Released From Prison, and Starting a Company • Robert Goldberg – d**h by Obamacare: ‘Reform' reams cancer patients • Reuters – T-Mobile US Eyes Airwaves Buy From Verizon Wireless: Source • Matt Richtel – All Dogs May Go to Heaven. These Days, Some Go to Hospice • Paul Sullivan – Financing Start-Up Dreams With Retirement Savings • Mandi Woodruff – Don't Be Duped by Lame Black Friday Deals • Jim Yardley – Bangladesh Takes Step to Raise $38-a-Month Minimum Wage Dr. Howard Rambsy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Course Texts: • Frederick Dougla** – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougla**, an American Slave • Etheridge Knight – Hard Rock Returns to Prison From the Hospital for the Criminal Insane • Etheridge Knight – I Sing of Shine • Ishmael Reed – Flight to Canada • Margaret Walker – Bad-Man Stagolee Teaching Resources: • The Richard Wright Autobiography Covers • Timeline of African American Poetry, 1854 - 2013 Kenton Rambsy, University of Kansas • Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Rebecca Sherouse, Castilleja School • John Clare – To John Clare • Mary Oliver – First Days in San Miguel de Allende • Edgar Allan Poe – Sonnet- To Zante • Nikki Giovanni – Detroit Conference of Unity and Art (For HRB) • Natasha Trethewey – Calling • Edwin Arlington Robinson – Theophilus • Ezra Pound – Prayer For His Lady's Life • William Carlos Williams – St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils • Stevie Smith – Phèdre • Dorothy Parker – From A Letter From Lesbia • Charles Bukowski – German • Ogden Nash – Yum, Yum, Take It Away • Dorothy Parker – The Immortals • Wendy Cope – Rondeau Redouble • Kay Ryan – To Explain the Solitary • John Updike – Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers • Bo Burnham – Our Father • Robinson Jeffers – Wonder and Joy • Sharon Olds – My Son the Man • Kevin Young – Cadillac Moon • William Butler Yeats – Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn • Adrienne Rich – "I Am in Danger - Sir - " • Charles Simic – The Oldest Child Kimberly Stone, Berkmar High School • President John F. 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