ENGLISH Creative Writing: Short Shorts
The story is that Ernest Hemingway bet his writer- friends that he could tell a story in six words. He wrote: “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” He later claimed it was his best work. Contemporary writers continue to experiment with the bare essentials of a story, trying to capture more with less. Exploring many tales, we will determine if these hold the whole world in them as Hemingway’s does or something less. You will then try your hand.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 2Xab, 7Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
Literature of the
American Suburb Powerful literature is often a reflection of our lives. In this class, you’ll watch, read, and discuss a variety of film segments and short stories that comment on life in the American suburbs. Some artists see the suburbs as a safe haven of hearth and home, a respite from the rigors of rural life or the perils of urban life. Other artists view the suburbs as shiny veneers, beneath which exists a seedy underbelly of greed, selfishness, sadness, and desperation. The best artists, though, like John Cheever, John Updike, and Raymond Carver (a few of the ones you’ll study in this class), recognize the rich complexity of suburban life, a life that is likely not all that different from your own.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 7Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) Bernard
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) Ann Hunter
X-BIN “…Written on Subway Walls”:
Song Lyrics and Poetry Because song lyrics are set in the context of deliberate musical information, they are different from poetry, which uses silence as its backdrop. Nonetheless, some of the best songs exploit techniques that elevate them into the exalted and lofty realm of poetry. This X-bin will examine song lyrics through the ages, from their prehistoric origins to the most contemporary tunes, paying special attention to the many types of musical information (melody, rhythm, instrumentation, recording techniques, the quality of the singer’s voice) that distinguish recent popular music from poetry.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 2Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
On Her Own Terms: Emily
Dickinson, Self-Published Long considered one of the most powerful and enigmatic poets in America, Dickinson allowed only a few of her poems to be published during her lifetime. The rest she carefully revised, transcribed, and bound, keeping them to herself until her death in 1886. In this class we’ll explore Dickinson’s poems as she herself compiled them, in small booklets written in her own hand. We’ll study the clues she left in these manuscripts in an effort to uncover who she was based on what and how she wrote and to discover, in the work of her own hand, the poet’s relationship to her life’s work, her poetry.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 5Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
24
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) Dauterman
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) McGrath
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