Grade+12,+Unit+2

== =UNIT 2: WORLD LITERATURE: LATIN AND CENTRAL AMERICA= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How does magical realism reveal new perspectives of reality?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =DRAMA:= =MEXICO--= = = =NOVELS:= =BRAZIL--= = = =CHILE--= = = =COLOMBIA--= = = =DOMINICA REPUBLIC--= = = =MEXICO--= = = =SENEGAL--= = = =UNITED STATES LATIN CULTURE--= = = =POETRY:= =CHILE--= = = =MEXICO--= = = =SHORT STORIES:= =ARGENTINA--= = = =CHILE--= = = =COLUMBIA--= = = =CUBA--= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= =HONDURAS--= = = =COLOMBIA--= = = =COSTA RICA= = = =GUATEMALA= = = =MEXICO--= = = =PERU--= = = =MEDIA:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =//The Impostor: A Play for Demagogues// by Rodolfo Usigli and Ramon Layera, trans.=
 * =//The Alchemist// by Paulo Coelho=
 * =//The House of the Spirits// by Isabel Allende and Magda Bogin, trans.=
 * = //One Hundred Years of Solitude// by Gabriel Garcia Marquez =
 * = //In the Time of the Butterflies// by Julia Alvarez =
 * =//Like Water for Chocolate// by Laura Esquivel and Thomas Christensen, trans.=
 * =//The Book of Lamentations// by Rosario Castellanos=
 * =//The Old Gringo// by Carlos Fuentes and Margaret Sayers Peden, trans.=
 * =//The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution// by Mariano Azuela and Sergio Waisman, trans.=
 * =//So Long a Letter// by Mariama Ba=
 * =//Bless Me, Ultima// by Ruddfo Anaya=
 * ="Book of Twilight" by Pablo Neruda=
 * =//Gabriela Mistral: A Reader// by Gabriela Mistral, Maria Giachetti, trans., Marjorie Agosin, ed. (selections)=
 * =//Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair// by Pablo Neruda and W.S. Merwin, trans. (selections)=
 * =//Eagle or Sun?// (prose poems) by Octavio Paz (selections)=
 * ="End of the Game" by (Julio Cortázar=
 * ="Letter to a Young Lady in Paris" by Julio Cortázar=
 * ="The Garden of Forking Paths" by Jorge Luis Borges=
 * = "The Secret Miracle" by Jorge Luis Borges =
 * =//The Stories of Eva Luna// by Isabel Allende (selections)=
 * = "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez =
 * = "No One Writes to the Colonel" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez =
 * ="The Sea of Lost Time" by Gabriel García Márquez=
 * ="Journey Back to the Source" by Alejo Carpentier=
 * ="Complex Feelings about Borges" (in //The Noé Jitrik Reader: Selected Essays on Latin American Literature) by// Noé Jitrik and Susan E. Benner, trans.=
 * =//The Noé Jitrik Reader: Selected Essays on Latin American Literature// by Noé Jitrik and Susan E. Benner, trans.=
 * =//The Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors// by Doris Meyer, ed. (excerpts)=
 * = "The Solitude of Latin America" (Nobel Prize Lecture, 8 December, 1982) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez =
 * =//Deity Figure// (Honduras, third to sixth century)=
 * =//Masked Figure Pendant// (Colombia, tenth to sixteenth century)=
 * =//Bird Pendant// (Costa Rica, first century BCE to first century CE)=
 * =//Tripod Bird Bowl// (Guatemala, third to fourth century)=
 * =Diego Rivera, //The History of Mexico: The Ancient Indian World// (1929-1935)=
 * =//Murals at Bonampak// (Mayan, ca. 580 to 800 CE)=
 * =//Murals from Teotihuacan// (Tetitla, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE)=
 * =//Drinking Vessel// (Peru, late fifteenth to early sixteenth century=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * ="Author Gabriel Garcáia Márquez was Born on This Day" (ReadWriteThink)=
 * =Biographical essay on one of the Latin American winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala (1967); Pablo Neruda, Chile (1971); Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia (1982); Octavio Paz, Mexico (1990); Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia (1992); V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad (2001); and Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru (2010).=
 * =Figures of speech=
 * =Extended metaphor=
 * =First-person point of view=
 * =Foreshadowing=
 * =Imagery=
 * =Irony=
 * =Magical realism=
 * =Metaphor=
 * =Paradox=
 * =Rhetoric=
 * =Symbolism=
 * =Theme=
 * =Third-person omniscience=

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