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ENGLISH ONE LESSON OVERVIEW |
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I. THE SHORT STORY AND THE ESSAY |
Organization is the key to success! | 1 |
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How to read and understand a text (short story) |
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Pre-reading (generating questions, hypothesis, etc) |
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The Three levels of reading a text |
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Distilling essential information |
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Summarizing, paraphrasing |
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How to write an essay |
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Shaffer method |
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| Outside Reading Book Reports | 1, | |
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II. THE GREEK WORLD |
Gods depicted (pictures) |
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Gods defined |
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Greece (life in ancient Greece, rites, practices, traditions, their roots and evolution) |
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The birth of the world and other tales from Hesiod and Ovid (including Pyramus and Thisbe) |
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The infancy of philosophy (allegory of the Cave, the origins of love, the death of Socrates) |
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The great war of Troy (The Iliad) |
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Schlieman and Freud (It really happened and it’s all in your head) |
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The odyssey as lyric opera, as metaphor, and as greatest story ever told as it speaks to our wandering unconscious, the desire to leave the nest, conquer and return a hero. |
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The traveler of past and present (from Gilgamesh to Captain Kirk) |
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Movie-- Baron Munchausen |
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III. THE RENAISSANCE |
Glimpse of the Middle Ages (Aurea Legenda, Gawain, Dante’s 5th circle, Everyday Life) |
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Humanism, one story of Boccaccio’s |
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Glimpse of the Middle Ages (Aurea Legenda, Gawain, Dante’s 5th circle, Everyday Life) |
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Humanism, one story of Boccaccio’s |
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Renaissance of the anthropocentric world view, its roots and symptoms |
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The Great Greek Revival (ART, LITERATURE, even RELIGION is Humanized). |
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England the Mossy Rock where every man is an actor |
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One tale of Chaucer’s |
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Marlowe’s Faust (Marlowe is the least garrulous English poet of his time and his untimely death frees the stage for one who becomes synonymous with English theater, William Shakespeare. |
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Mr. or Mrs. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as picture perfect tragedy, as hormonally induced stupidity and as the saddest story ever told. |
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Movie-- West Side Story |
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IV. ABOUT RODENTS AND HUMANS |
Of Mice and Men: friendship, dreams, fortune |
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George's love vs. Romeo's love |
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Movie: Of Mice and Men |
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V. KILLING PROTECTED WILDLIFE! |
Is fighting for a lost cause worth it? The hero revisited. |
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Excerpts from Don Quixote |
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Final Review |
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