Honors World Literature

Welcome to your final semester of high school English. This journey will travel through different genres and themes of world literature, beginning with a study of Native American Literature where different worldview and lifeways will be the focus. Your studies in this unit will be enhanced through research and the use of technology once again. Next this journey will turn toward the study of the epic, in excerpted form; following that will be a brief unit on 19th century Realism with the study of A Doll's House. Another unit will turn to a short play by Shakespeare, The Tempest, said to have been the last play Shakespeare wrote. The last unit will look at The Stranger by Albert A vast amount of resources have been provided for you below to help you in your studies this semester; while some relate to studies of earlier World Literature classes, they remain on this page in the off chance that the curriculum will turn to them again.

If you need help while at home, send an email to shayes2@lausd.net. E-mail is checked periodically daily.

World Myth

• Dawn of the World Index
• Myth*Ing Links: Common Themes Creation Myths
• Popol Vuh (Quiché Mayan)
• Popol Vuh A Creation Story
• Myths, Folktales and Fairytales

The Epic

• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Epic of Gilgamesh (highly recommended)
• The Internet Classics Archive | The Aeneid by Virgil (the entire book with commentary)
  • The Ramayana
• The Story of Rama - A Brief Synopsis

General Literature Resources

• A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature
• Dante's Inferno: A Virtual Tour of Hell
• Haiku
• Literary Web (Resources)
• Realism in Literature, The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
• VoS: Voice of the Shuttle
• W. W. Norton & Company | The Norton Anthology of Western Literature

Shakespeare - The Tempest

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (other resources available here)
• Full text of play
• The Tempest - GCSE Revision Notes

Existentialism

• The Absurd Hero (Sisyphus)
• Existentialism
• Existentialism: A Sort of Individualism
• The Myth of Sisyphus (Wikipedia enclyclopedia)
• Notebook on Albert Camus

The Holocaust

• About Isabella Leitner
• The Forgiveness Web (The Sunflower)
• NPR: Intersections: Of 'Maus' and Spiegelman
• Ophah's Book Club (Night — requires free registration)

Writing Resources

• A Guide For Writing Research Papers (see other sources for writing research papers on the index page)
  • LEO Comparison/Contrast Essays
• Writing Effective Comparison/Contrast Essays

Miscellaneous

• Creating a PowerPoint Presentation

Other Resources

• The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms by Ross Murfin and Spryia M. Ray
• Camus The Stranger by Patrick McCarthy
• Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufman
• The Man Made of Words by N. Scott Momaday
• Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick
• Speaking for Generations: Native Writers on Writing edited by Simon J. Ortiz

updated 8 Jan. 2013