Literature

norton anthology literary terms

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Unit 1- Conformity & Rebellion

Central text: Night

Supplementary texts and resources

• "Inside Auschwitz" Oprah.com (interview)
• "Hope, Despair, Memory" Nobelprize.org (lecture)
• "A God Who Remembers" NPR.org (mp3 & written essay)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• excerpts from The Diary of a Young Girl (novel)
• poems and excerpts from I Promised I Would Tell by Sonia Weitz (novel)
• Remembering the Past: Sonia Weitz's History facinghistory.org (video)
• I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived during the Holocaust (video)
• "Prisoner A26188: Henia Bryer" documentarystorm.com (video)

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Unit 2- Home & Family

Central text: ​The Kite Runner

Supplementary texts: 

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Unit 3- Tradition & Progress

Central text: Purple Hibiscus

 Supplementary texts:
     Antigone by Sophocles
    TED "The Danger of a Single Story"

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Unit 4- Identity & Culture

Literature Circles - Joy Luck Club, Long Way Gone, Born a Crime 

Supplementary texts: Iliad and Aeneid

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Poetry Unit

Introduction to Poetry

Poetry terms worksheet

Lyric Poetry

Narrative Poetry

Sonnets, tanka, and haiku

Epic Poetry

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Drama Unit

Antigone Background Notes

Antigone reading activities

Antigone Study Questions

Antigone Notebook (Honors only)

Antigone Notebook (academic only)

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