The Politics of Fiction: A Dystopian Study George 1984 and Ray Fahrenheit 451 Orwell’s Bradbury’s **4th timed writing: Themes in dystopian novels, exploring the relevance to modern day Introduction of Capstone Project (w/technology component) -Students will create a project that reflects 1st semester themes applied to “real-world” situations **Score 4 in Proficiency Ladders Research Paper 1: Research, write, revise and present a persuasive discussion both orally (accompanied by a technological presentation) and in writing (closely following MLA documentation) to examine a topic of interest (literary in nature) employing a variety of research methods and exploring cause and effect, compare/contrast, analogy, figurative language, definition, mood/tone/voice, characterization and connotation/denotation. Students will be able to compose an effective argument with a well-crafted, well-supported interpretive claim. A Brief Introduction to Satire: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Mark Twain’s, “The Calaveras County” Selections from Candide Voltaire’s Selections from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels A Survey of Modernism and Poetry Seminar 3 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce’s, T.S. Elliot, Love Song of “The J. Alfred Prufrock” D.H. Lawrence, “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” Margaret Atwood, “You Fit Into Me” W.H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” and Fred Chappell, “Narcissus Echo” Edgar Allen Poe, Cask of “The Amontillado” of Walt Whitman’s, “Song Myself”
The Politics of Fiction: A Dystopian Study George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 **4th timed writing: Themes in dystopian novels, exploring the relevance to modern day Introduction of Capstone Project (w/technology component) -Students will create a project that reflects 1st semester themes applied to “real-world” situations **Score 4 in Proficiency Ladders Research Paper 1: Research, write, revise and present a persuasive discussion both orally (accompanied by a technological presentation) and in writing (closely following MLA documentation) to examine a topic of interest (literary in nature) employing a variety of research methods and exploring cause and effect, compare/contrast, analogy, figurative language, definition, mood/tone/voice, characterization and connotation/denotation. Students will be able to compose an effective argument with a well-crafted, well-supported interpretive claim. A Brief Introduction to Satire: Mark Twain’s, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Selections from Voltaire’s Candide Selections from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels A Survey of Modernism and Poetry Seminar 3 James Joyce’s, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man T.S. Elliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” D.H. Lawrence, “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” Margaret Atwood, “You Fit Into Me” W.H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” Fred Chappell, “Narcissus and Echo” Edgar Allen Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” Walt Whitman’s, “Song of Myself”
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