Topics to consider:
What makes a human?
What is the value of understanding other world cultures?
How does the past affect peoples' views about the world?
Novels/Plays:
*Anthem, Ayn Rand
*Frankenstein. Mary Shelley
*Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
*The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
Oedipus the King Sophocles
*Sophie's World. Jostein Gaarder
*Siddhartha. Hermann Hesse
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First Semester
What makes a human?
"2,800 Years Old And Still Relevant"
The rights of good writing:
Organization
Support
Sentence Diversity: simple (subject/predicate review), compound (comma
review). complex
(subordinate clauses-- gerund, participle), semicolon, dash
Archetypes- "The Svmbols that Describe Me"
What is culture?---Creation Myths and Prometheus
Anthem, Ayn Rand
FCAT Proiect- Bloom's Taxonomy, style, tone, speaker, analysis
Parallel Mvths: Cultural connection through the hero myth
The Classic Novel
Formative Excerpts:
Faust, Goethe
Paradise Lost. Milton
Metamorphosis, Ovid
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Second Semester
Aristotle on Tragedy/In Search of a Hero/Drama Classics:
Oedipus the King, Sophocles
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare or tba
In Search of Self:
Roots of Western Philosophy:
Socrates/Plato The Apology and The allegory' of the Cave
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
Existentialism
Roots of Eastern Philosophy:
Hinduism and Buddhism- Excerpts from the Rig Veda, Taittiriya Lpanish
ad, and the Mahabharata
Siddhartha- Hermann Hesse
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