Course Description:

This semester-long, senior course focuses on reading and writing about various cultures outside the United States.  The class will examine several cultural similarities and differences expressed through literature, and the universal themes developed within the literature.  Units in this class may include, but are not limited to the following: world myths and folktales (Mongolian, Native American, Mayan, Greek, Japanese, German, Hungarian), literature of Africa, literature of Russia, literature of Spain, literature of South America, literature of India, and literature of the Far East.

Texts/Materials:

World Literature, an in-class anthology textbook

Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Nectar in a Sieve, by Kamala Markandaya

Other texts, (optional) - TBA

You will make a passport journal in class.  Each day, you should bring your passport, your planner, the text we’re currently reading, extra notebook paper, and a pencil or pen with you to class.