English 10

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink." - T.S. Elliot

Essential idea:

Students will recognize the importance of patterns - archetypes - in various media (including different cultures and pop culture).

Comedy

• Confrontation of innocence and ignorance

• Comic hero's struggle

• Theme of love conquers all

• Human spirit renewed

• Imaginative view of a new and tolerant society

• The meaning of "happily ever after"

Satire/ Irony

• The mockery of man's egotism and pride

• The rogue hero wise enough to play the fool

• The foibles of inflexibility and lack of imagination

Tragedy

• Loss of innocents

• Loss of innocence

• Tragic hero

• Tragic fall

• The power of fate

• The mystery of death

Romance

• Garden/ place apart setting

• Romance hero

• The quest

• Victory of good over evil

• The world of the future

• Gothic romance

* MCAS

*Sophomore Research Project (Sophomore Oral)