Grade+9,+Unit+5

== =UNIT 5: EPIC POETRY - HEROISM= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Are epic heroes brave, smart, or lucky?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =EPIC POEMS:= = = =SHORT STORIES:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =NONFICTION:= = = =ART, MUSIC, MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MUSIC:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =//Multicultural Reader II//=
 * =//Snapshots//=
 * =//Elements of Literature//=
 * =//Daybook//=
 * = //The Aeneid// by Virgil =
 * = //The Odyssey// by Homer =
 * = //Endymion// by John Keats (EA) (excerpts) =
 * = //The Lotos-Eaters// by Alfred Lord Tennyson =
 * = //Ramayana// by Valmiki (excerpts) =
 * = //The Song of Hiawatha// by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (EA) =
 * = //Mythology// compiled by Edith Hamilton =
 * =“Going to War, Part 1” (Second Lieutenant Kelley Victor Gasper)=
 * =Going to War, Part 2” (Second Lieutenant Kelley Victor Gasper)=
 * =//Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War// (William Manchester) (excerpts)=
 * =//Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming// (Jonathan Shay) (excerpts)=
 * =//Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families// (Andrew Carroll, ed.)=
 * = //The Poetics of Aristotle// (Aristotle) (excerpt on comedy and tragedy) =
 * =//Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point// (Elizabeth D. Samet)=
 * ="The Devious Narrator of The Odyssey" (Scott Richardson, The Classical Journal, Vol. 101, No. 4, pp. 337-359)=
 * =//The Gold of Troy// (Robert Payne)=
 * =//The Hero with a Thousand Faces// (Joseph Campbell)=
 * =//Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption// (Laura Hillenbrand)=
 * =Greece, //Relief Plaque// (ca. 450 BCE)=
 * =India, Folio from The Ramayana of Valmiki: //Rama Shatters the Trident of the Demon Viradha// (1597-1605)=
 * =Henry Purcell, //Dido and Aeneas// (1688)=
 * =Conjunctions: coordinating, correlative, subordinating (vs. prepositions)=
 * =Conjunctive adverbs=
 * =Semicolons=
 * =Allusion=
 * =Archetype=
 * =Arete=
 * =Chronological order=
 * =The classical epic poem=
 * =Epic poetry=
 * =Epic/homeric simile=
 * =Epithet=
 * =Evidence=
 * =Hero=
 * =Heroic couplet=
 * =Iambic pentameter=
 * =Invocation=
 * =Narrative=
 * =Oral tradition=
 * =Thesis statement=

=RETURN to 7-12 ELA Curriculum=

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