Part 3 Anchor Texts:
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (PLA)
The Stranger, Albert Camus (PLT)
How Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez (free choice)
Supplementary Texts:
Selected work from Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Hemingway
Selected passages from Reading Lolita In Tehran
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann (2013)
Selected Poetry (15-20 poems), Derek Walcott
Selected Documentaries
Supplementary Readings- The Stranger:
Adam Gopnick's article in the New Yorker
"The Stranger | Elements, Philosophy, and Viewpoints in The Stranger," Patrick J Moser
Overarching Questions:
How is a literary text shaped by the context (cultural movements, personal experiences) of the writer?
Are we limiting ourselves by reading with context knowledge? Or, are we opening our eyes to details that we otherwise wouldn't have seen?
How can applying critical lenses change our understanding of a text?
Literary Movements & Critical Theories Connected With Part 3 Works:
The Lost Generation Writers
Existentialism
Post-Colonialism
Modernism
Marxism
Feminism
On-Going Assessments:
Student Warm Up Blogs
Weekly Quizzes: Assigned reading, class material
Rough Drafts
Summative Assessments:
Quarter 3:
Lost Generation Website Project
Practice Paper 2: The Great Gatsby
Quarter 4:
Critical Lens Essay Exam
Practice Paper 2: The Great Gatsby, The Stranger, How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Senior Capstone Project
Paper 1 (IB external assessment- May)
Paper 2 (IB external assessment- May)
Websites & Resources:
Library of Congress- Primary Resources from Roaring Twenties
Interesting Gatsby Resources
University of Iowa- Original Reviews of Gatsby at initial release
New Yorker Film Review of Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby