Grade+11,+Unit+6

== =UNIT 6: EUROPEAN LITERATURE: TWENTIETH CENTURY= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why might the twentieth century be regarded as the Age of Anxiety?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =DRAMA:= = = =NOVELS:= = = =POETRY:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =ESSAYS:= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MUSIC:= = = =MEDIA:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =//Adventures in Literature//=
 * =//Collector’s Anthology//=
 * =//Elements of Literature//=
 * =//Sherlock Holmes Selections//=
 * =//Antigone// by Jean Anouilh=
 * = //Caligula// by Albert Camus=
 * = //King Lear// by William Shakespeare=
 * =//Mother Courage and Her Children// by Bertolt Brecht=
 * = //Pygmalion// by George Bernard Shaw=
 * = //Rhinoceros// by Eugene Ionesco (E)=
 * =//Waiting for Godot// by Samuel Beckett=
 * = //Nineteen Eighty-Four// by George Orwell=
 * = //All Quiet on the Western Front// by Erich Maria Remarque=
 * = //And Then There Were None// by Agatha Christie=
 * = //A Brave New World// by Aldous Huxley=
 * =//Briefing for a Descent into Hell// by Doris Lessing=
 * = //The Hound of the Baskervilles// by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle=
 * =//In Cold Blood// byTruman Capote (AP Summer Reading)=
 * = //Lord of the Flies// by William Golding=
 * =//On A Pale Horse// by Piers Anthony=
 * =//Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s Papers// by Knut Hamsun=
 * = //Steppenwolf// by Hermann Hesse=
 * = //The Mayor of Casterbridge// by Thomas Hardy=
 * = //The Metamorphosis// (novella) by Franz Kafka (E) =
 * = //The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen// by Rudolf Erich Raspe =
 * = //The Time Machine// by H. G. Wells=
 * = "Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke =
 * ="Conversation with a Stone" by Wisława Szymborska=
 * = "Counter-Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon =
 * = "Dreamers" by Siegfried Sassoon =
 * = "Four Quartets" by T. S. Eliot (EA) =
 * =//Poem of the Deep Song// by Federico García Lorca (selections)=
 * ="Suicide in the Trenches" by Siegfried Sassoon=
 * =//The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue// by W.H. Auden (EA)=
 * ="The Daffodil Murderer" by Siegfried Sassoon=
 * = "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy=
 * = "The Old Huntsman" by Siegfried Sassoon =
 * = "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats =
 * = "The Wasteland" by T. S. Eliot (EA) =
 * = //Crisis of the Mind// (1919) by Paul Valery [extract] =
 * = "The Fallacy of Success" (from //All Things Considered//) by G. K. Chesterton (E) =
 * = //Letters to a Young Poet// by Rainer Maria Rilke =
 * = //The Courage to Be// by Paul Tillich (excerpts) =
 * = //The Ego and the Id// by Sigmund Freud [excerpt] =
 * = //Thus Spoke Zarathustra// by Friedrich Nietzsche =
 * = "Their Finest Hour" (delivered 18 June, 1940) by Winston Churchill (EA) =
 * =Georges Braque, //Candlestick and Playing Cards on a Table// (1910)=
 * =Henri Matisse, //Blue Nude// (1952)=
 * =Joan Miro, //The Potato// (1928)=
 * =Kurt Schwitters, //Untitled (Oval Construction)// (1925)=
 * =Pablo Picasso, //Reading at a Table// (1932)=
 * =Piet Mondrian, //Composition No. III// (1921, repainted 1925)=
 * =Flamenco guitar music (such as that performed by Carlos Montoya or Paco Peña)=
 * =Ludwig van Beethoven, //String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor//, Op. 132 (1825)=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * ="Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics" (ReadWriteThink)=
 * =//King Lear// as an existential work=
 * =The Twentieth Century as the Age of Anxiety=
 * =Orwell's //1984// as prophetic literature=
 * =Comparison of Anouilh's //Antigone// with Sophocles's //Antigone//=
 * =Compare //Brave New World// and //1984//=
 * =Absurd=
 * =Affirmation=
 * =Anxiety=
 * =Dystopia=
 * =Existentialism=
 * =Free verse=
 * =Modernism=
 * =Negation=
 * =Neologism=
 * =Postmodernism=
 * =Rhetorical device=
 * =Satire=
 * =Totalitarianism=
 * =Understatement=

=RETURN to 7-12 ELA Curriculum=

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