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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)
Click Here to go to the page with worksheets from class

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Unit 2- Home & Family

Central text: ​The Kite Runner
Supplementary texts: 
Persepolis: "The Letter" & "The Bicycle"


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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

Poetry Unit

Introduction to Poetry
Poetry terms worksheet
Lyric Poetry
Narrative Poetry
Sonnets, tanka, and haiku
Epic Poetry

Drama Unit

Antigone Background Notes
Antigone reading activities
Antigone Study Questions
Antigone Notebook (Honors only)
Antigone Notebook (academic only)

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  • Welcome
    • Meet the teacher >
      • Teaching Philosophy
      • Contact
      • Twitter
    • 1st day video >
      • An Average Day in Class
    • Student Guide
    • Cell Phone Policy
    • Grading policy
    • Getting your make up work
    • Assignment Directions
    • Duncan's list of Don'ts
    • Surveys
    • Useful websites
  • DDD
  • Literature
    • Independent Reading
    • Annotation Bookmark
    • A.C.E.
    • Commonlit assignments
    • Unit 1 >
      • Genocide Research Project
    • Unit 2 >
      • Identity Activity
    • Unit 3 >
      • Antigone >
        • Response Blog
        • Research activity
    • Unit 4
    • Poetry Unit >
      • IF
      • Poetry Tableau
      • Poems for honors explication
      • Poetry mashup alternative
    • Nonfiction & AOW
  • Vocabulary
    • word analysis week 1
    • weekly units
    • blank worksheets
    • Vocab websites
    • study stack activities
  • Grammar
    • Grammar Websites >
      • grammar quizzes
    • parts of speech visual >
      • Adjectives
      • adverbs
      • prepositions visual
  • Writing
    • Writing Websites
    • One Word Project
    • MLA Format
    • Kindness freewrite
    • punctuation >
      • apostrophes
      • how to use punctuation
      • punctuation matters
    • most annoying writing mistakes
    • 100 ways to say good
    • parallel sturcture
    • passive voice
  • Class Resources
    • Daily Docket
    • Calendar >
      • Bell Schdeule
      • Final Exam schedule
    • Mrs. D's YouTube channel
  • CHS Anime Club
  • The Page- Cary High's Student-Run Newspaper