World Literature

World Literature Overview

Students taking this course will learn to:

Understand that all themes and scenarios found in historical literature can be applied to modern literature that these themes transcend time. World literature introduces students to influential world literature from ancient times to present. Included will be a discussion of the major historical,cultural,intellectual,and political events that shaped this literature. Students will analyze and evaluate classical world literature with respect to themselves and also analyze and evaluate world literature in relation to global contexts.

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Build a Hero

The idea of this project was to create a presentation using Google Slides that describes my epic hero and explains specifically how he/she matches at least four qualities of an epic hero.

Copy of Nightcrawler.

Epic Story

Using everything that we learned about the qualities of a epic hero and also incorporating ancient civilizations and Spanish, here is a story about my pbl group epic hero: Night Crawler

My Commercial

Using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos we were assigned a project that has us create a commercial that decribes something about us. People normally think I am angry or irritated but normally I am just tired. So using propaganda I created a commercial that promotes my character to seem like a nice person, while explainig why some people are just tired.

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My Hum- Idia Enadeghe

My Hum

In class we watched a Ted Talk. In the Ted Talk a lady named , Shondra Rhimes explains "the hum". From ted talk I learned more about " The Hum" and how it can affect us by motivating us or keep us from moving forward. In this short write I talk about what brings me joy and why it is " My Hum".

The World is too much with us - William Words Worth & Night-Elie Wiesel

This is one of my favorite poems that we analyzed this year. This poem discuss the deuterating connection between humankind and nature. Using this poem and reading the text " Night" we connected it to the greed of humans.

Some lines from the poem that stood out to me is ,

" Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"

In Night, They explain how Hitler used the threat of materialism to justify the actions of the Germans by saying they have Lost something because of the Jews. As humans we thirst over power and money only losing something that is fleeting. And what I learned from this text as a whole we have given away the ability to repair ourselves by being selfish.

Utopian vs. Dystopian

In this project our jobs were to Create your own Utopian society, Utopian standards.

In this process we though about:

What are its laws? How are things made equal? What are the punishments for breaking the laws? Why was it created? What social or moral malady did its creation remedy?

Copy of Our Utopian: Ootopia

Copy of The City of Rem

Re-write Roman History

For this activity, I had to complete a slide show/short writing assignment in which they imagine that it was Romulus who was killed, not Remus. Remus becomes the new founder of the city, and thus the founder of the subsequent kingdom, republic, and empire. Based on the stories about Remus' personality and relationship with his brother, students will imagine how Roman history would have turned out differently. Where would Remus have built his city? What would it be named? What would the values of the city be? How would this impact its government? We had to write this alternative history as if we were tour guides in this city today, explaining the events of the past to tourists.

Empowerment conference

My final project in world literature was about the power of advocacy and inspirational/motivational speaking. My friend and I had to present a topic for which they feel passionate. The topic must be one that encourages personal growth of some kind.

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The Power of Storytelling

By: Thai Daniel and Idia Enadeghe

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