1st NINE WEEKS               

              Introduction to IB Writing

              ESSAYS                     Emma and Paret

                                 Old Milon

 THE SHORT STORY

  Source: Literature: Reading  Reacting. Writing

                                   (Kirzner & Mandel)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Crossing Into Poland"

 (teacher handout)                                 Isaac Babel

"Old Milon"

 (teacher handout)                      Guy de Maupassant

POINT OF VIEW

"The Secret Lion" 43   

                                             Alberto Alvaro Rios

 Film "The Sky is Gray"   

                                                  Ernest Gaines 

Plot        

"A Rose for Emily"   80     

Story and Film                      

                                                     William Faulkner

 ALLEGORY 29                               

 'Young Goodman Brown"             

 Film "Rappaccini’s Daughter"  

                                  Nathaniel Hawthorne

 STYLE 256

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" 

                                                Ernest Hemingway

CHARACTERIZATION

"A &P" 105  John Updike

SYMBOL & SETTING

"The Chrysanthemums" 326       

                                                   John Steinbeck

 Film: Of Mice and Men

THEME: Coming of Age

"Doe Season" 342                 David Michael Kaplan

"Greasy Lake" 397                    

 T. Coraghessan Boyle

"A Woman on the Roof" 524 

                                              Doris Lessing

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You  Been?"

 579                                 Joyce Carol Oates

 

 

2ND NINE WEEKS

 LITERARY TERMS

Setting

Plot

Character

Theme

Point-of-View

Symbol

Irony

Denouement                

Style                              

Allegory                            

NONFICTION

          The Color Purple and Alice Walker 

                   "How it Feels to be Colored Me" 

                 Zora Neale Hurston

VOCABULARY

         300 commonly misspelled words

                    vocabulary from individual short stories

         RESEARCH PAMPHLET   

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                  Group Research Project 

         Literary Analysis                

         NOVELLA

         The Metamorphosis  

                              Franz Kafka

              THIRD NINE  WEEKS 

                   Their Eyes Were Watching God   

                                       

                                                 

                                                            Zora Neale Hurston

 GREEK MYTHOLOGY

  Source text:The Greek Gods  

  Evslin, Evslin, & Hoopes

  DRAMA

   

               William Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew

                    Henrik Ibsen

            Enemy of the People

         FOURTH NINE WEEKS

 POETRY

 RESEARCH PAPER

          3 to 5 page typed,  double-spaced

          literary  research  paper   with

          MLA style parenthetical  documentation

 WRITING

 Annotations

 Literary Criticism

 Appropriateness and smooth

               incorporation of  sources

              Stylistic Revision 

 

 

                                         9 th Grade Pre-IB Curriculum