11 · 12 Off the Rails:
Native American Literature From the the tragedies of The Trail of Tears, Little Big Horn, and the Modoc Wars, how have Native Americans come to survive in the United States? Discover contemporary stories that express and reveal the plight of Native Americans. How do they begin to rediscover their heritage? How do they cope with “life on the res”? How can they or should they find a place in 21st century America? The class will culminate in a trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see Off the Rails, as adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, set in a late 19th century Indian boarding school. This class is suitable for AP literature preparation.
Length of Course 1 bin
Mod + Period 2A
Credits Apply Toward English
So You Want to Start a Revolution?
The Literature of Protest To protest is human. Before Martin Luther who nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of a Wittenberg Chapel and Patrick Henry whose cry of “Give me liberty or give me death!” gave birth to our independence, the Romans gave legitimate voice to grievance. Ordinary individuals and statesmen over the course of history have elevated this to an art form: the literature of protest. In this course, we will explore the rhetoric in the many voices and styles of protest in America from Thomas Paine to 80’s hip-hop.
Length of Course 1 bin
Mod + Period 3A, 4C
Credits Apply Toward English
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Grade Level(s) 11, 12
Teacher(s) Ann Hunter
Grade Level(s) 11, 12
Teacher(s) Ann Hunter
The Great Books
All cultures have their “great books,” landmarks in literature that are regarded as demonstrating the highest degree of artistic creativity, psychological insight, and philosophical weight. By their very nature, these books are not easy—the human mind and heart are complex and difficult to plumb. This course concentrates on a single defining text from world literature and thoroughly explores it, setting the work in its historical and philosophical context and exploring its impact on the world. In considering works for this course, such names as Dickens, Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Eliot, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Milton, Melville, Mahfouz, and Marquez spring to mind.
Length of Course 1 bin
Mod + Period
This years books are: 3B (Brothers Karamazov) 4B (Bleak House) 6A (Grapes of Wrath)
Credits Apply Toward English
Dystopia vs. Utopia
What makes an ideal society? Who determines the “ideal” and do all members need to agree? The world is constantly attempting to find the best political and social structure with many fringe groups attempting their own constructs. Through the use of history, politics, and literature, this course will focus on American Utopias and Dsytopias from both within and the outside looking in.
Length of Course 1 bin
Mod + Period 5A, 5C
Credits Apply Toward English
Grade Level(s) 11, 12
Teacher(s) Volk, McGrath
Grade Level(s) 11, 12
Teacher(s)
Al Hunter, McGrath, Volk
On Speaking Well:
The Art of Persuasion Rhetoric surrounds us all: from perfume ads to political speeches, words fly out at us as they vie for our attention, our admiration, our money. If you want to learn more about what rhetoric is, how it’s used, and how you can make more effective use of your own words, then this course is for you. In this course we will study what is often called the art of persuasion: invention, arrangement, style, embellishment—in short, rhetoric. We will follow a history of examinations of language and its uses through the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and others, and we will study and practice the methods they teach—methods still very much in use today—in a variety of written and oral projects and in analyses of contemporary rhetoric. The goals of this course are twofold: first, to learn more about the history of the use of language, and second, to see how the lessons of these ancient scholars apply to the work we do today.
Length of Course 1 bin
Mod + Period 1C, 2C
Credits Apply Toward English
Grade Level(s) 11, 12
Teacher(s) Dauterman
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