Genres Explored
Fiction
and Nonfiction
Short
Stories
Types
of Non Fiction/Essays
Poetry
Mythology-
Themes and Heroes
Drama
Novel
Fiction and
Nonfiction
“The Monkey’s Paw”
“The
Leap”
“Marian Anderson”.
Cisneros’
“Tepeyac”
“Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”
“Games
at Twilight”
“Like the Sun”
“The
Open Window”
Short Story
“A
Problem”
“The Street of the Canon”
“There
Will Come Soft Rains”
How
Much Land Does a Man Need”?
Achebe’s
“Civil Peace”
“Masque
of the Red Death
Nonfiction
“Spider and the Wasp”
“One
Million Volumes”
“A
Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant…”
“The
Dog that Bit People”
“Keep
Memory Alive”
Night by Elie Wiesel
“What
Makes a Degas a Degas?”
“from The Way to Rainy Mountain”
“History
of the Guitar”
Poetry 1 Unit
(Before Midterm)
“The Guitar”
“The Fish”
“Mowing”
“A Tree Telling Orpheus”
“Spring and All”
“Do Not Go Gently into that Good
Night”
“The Waking”
“Sonnet 18”
MIDTERM
EXAM
Poetry Unit 2
“The Wand”
“Tell all the Truth”
“Meeting at Night”
“The Kraken”
Themes and Heroes
of Mythology
Greek Mythology/
Egyptian Mythology
*“Prometheus
and the First People”/ “Prometheus and Fire”
“Persephone,
Demeter and Hades”
“Arachne”
“Daphne
and Apollo”
“The
Minotaur”
“Oedipus”
“Pentheus”
“Theseus”
“Orpheus”
“Daedalus
and Icarus”
“Egyptian
Underworld, Isis and Osiris”
Native American
Mythology
*“The
Orphan Boy”
“The
Kachinas”
“Hiawatha”
“Spider
Woman and Tawa”
Celtic Mythology/
Arthurian Legend
“Cuchulain”
*“Arthur
Becomes King”
“from
The Hollow Hills”
*“Morte
D’Arthur”
*“from
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”
*“from
Don Quixote”
Drama
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
A
Doll’s House
Novel
Lord of the Flies
FINAL
EXAMS
