Autumn 2016 Lee Allen, American School of Tangier, Morocco
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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. Kennedy – Speech To Rice University Dr. Kacy Tillman, University of Tampa
• J. Hector St John de Crevecouer – Letters from an American Farmer
• Harriet Wilson – Our Nig
Assignment:
• Genius Annotation Assignment Dr. Kevin Trumpeter, Allen University
• Julia Alvarez – Women's Work
• Luclille Clifton– There Is a Girl Inside
• E. E. Cummings – She Being Brand New
• John Donne – d**h be not proud
• Carol Ann Duffy – Little Red Cap
• Seamus Heaney – Valediction
• Langston Hughes – Harlem
• Carolyn Kizer – b**h
• Peter Meinke – Advice to My Son
• Taslima Nasrin – Things Cheaply Had
• Sharon Olds – Sex Without Love
• Sophocles – Antigone
• Anne Sexton – Cinderella
• Wallace Stevens – Sunday Morning
• Phillis Wheatley – On Being Brought from Africa to America
• Kevin Young – Negative
Assignment:
• General Annotation Assignment
Matthew Varnell, Berkmar High School
• Soundtrack Of My Life
• Genesis and Greek Creation Myths
• T.S. Eliot – The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Freestyle Fridays
Assignment:
• Guidelines for Student Annotations Claire Walter, The Wolcott School
• William Shakespeare – Macbeth
• William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Toby Warner, University of California, Davis
• Charles Baudelaire – A une pa**ante
• Charles Baudelaire – Le Cygne
• Charles Baudelaire – Spleen (LXXVIII)
Assignment:
• French Annotation Exercise Rebecca Willner, Beacon Charter High School for the Arts
• F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Spring 2013 Dr. Karin Akre, University of Texas
• Varenka Lorenzi, Ryan L. Earley, Matthew S. Grober – Differential Responses of Brain, Gonad and Muscle Steroid Levels to Changes in Social Status and Sex in a Sequential and Bidirectional Hermaphroditic Fish Jamie Cohen, Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto
• Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha
James Dunford, Carr Manor Community School
• J.B. Priestly – An Inspector Calls
Dr. Mary Fuller, Ma**achusetts Institute of Technology
• Robert Lowell For the Union Dead Dr. Daniel Gerling, Augustana College
• Horatio Alger – Ragged Dick
• David Byrne – Miss America
• Gogol Bordello – Immigraniada
• Emma Goldman – Victims of Morality
• Lee Greenwood – God Bless the U.S.A.
• Thomas Jefferson – The Declaration of Independence
• Emma Lazarus – The New Colossus
• The Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing
• Walt Whitman – Pa**age to India
• John Winthrop – A Model of Christian Charity
[• Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance]
[• Andrew Carnegie - On Wealth]
[• Langston Hughes - Harlem and Let American be America Again]
[• Henry Luce - The American Century]
[• Eleanor Roosevelt - What has Happened to the American Dream?]
[• William Burroughs - The Thanksgiving Prayer]
[• Alan Ginsburg - Howl]
Assignment:
• Song Annotation Assignment Noah Gordon, New Heights Academy Charter School
• Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Jenny Jack, St. Mary's College High School
• Henry David Thoreau – Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Dr. Noel Jackson, Ma**achusetts Institute of Technology
• William Blake – A Divine Image
• William Blake – The Divine Image
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Part V
• William Wordsworth – Goody Blake and Harry Gill
• William Wordsworth – The Ruined Cottage Katherine Robinson, Johns Hopkins University
• W.H. Auden, "Lullaby"
• Elizabeth Bishop – Seascape
• Amy Clampitt – A Silence
• Amy Clampitt – The Fog
• Amy Clampitt – The Kingfisher
• James Dickey – At Darien Bridge
• Emily Dickinson – After great pain a formal feeling comes
• John Donne – Woman's Constancy
• Robert Duncan – Rites of Pa**age II
• Robert Frost – Acquainted with the Night
• Robert Frost – Canis Major
• Robert Frost – Come In
• Robert Frost – The Most of It
• Robert Frost – October
• Robert Frost – Once by the Pacific
• Robert Graves – The Caterpillar
• Oliver Wendell Homes – The Chambered Nautilus
• Langston Hughes – Bra** Spitoons
• Langston Hughes – Cross
• Langston Hughes – I Look at the World
• John Keats, – Bright Star
• Philip Larkin – Ambulances
• Philip Larkin – Born Yesterday
• Philip Larkin – Church Going
• Philip Larkin – High Windows
• Philip Larkin – No Road
• James Merrill – The Octopus
• John Milton – When I consider how my light is spent
• Sylvia Plath – The Mirror
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg – Snow Melting
• William Shakespeare – Sonnet 116
• Wallace Stevens – Anecdote of the Jar
• Walt Whitman – When I Heard the Learned Astronomer
• William Butler Yeats – No Second Troy
• William Butler Yeats – To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time
• Cynthia Zairn – Field Guide
Assignment:
• Poetry Annotation Assignment Simone Savannah – University of Kansas
• Gloria Anzaldua – How to Tame a Wild Tongue
• bell hooks – Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor
• Audre Lorde – The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action
• Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture
Dr. Justin Tremel, University of Texas at Austin
• James Miller – King of the Delta Blues Matthew Varnell, Berkmar High School
• William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar Tali Zechory, Harvard University
• Charles Baudelaire – Le chat
• Charles Baudelaire – Le mort joyeux
• Charles Baudelaire – Le portrait
• Charles Baudelaire – Les aveugles
Assignment:
• Consignes pour l'explication de texte et l'activité avec « rapgenius » Fall 2012 Dr. Jeremy Dean, St. Stephen's Episcopal School
• John Bull – God Save the Queen
• Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
• Stephen Crane – Maggie, Girl of the Streets
• T.S. Eliot – The Hollow Men
• F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
• Langston Hughes – Let America Be America Again
• Rudyard Kipling – The White Man's Burden
• Herman Melville – Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
• Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
• George Orwell – Politics and the English Language"
• James Thompson – Rule, Britannia!”
• Traditional – The British Grenadiers
• William Carlos Williams – The Yachts
Assignment:
• Unit Assignment
Dr. Tony Fa**i, St. Stephen's Episcopal School
• Herman Melville – Moby Dick