Course Description: 

“Experiencing Cultural Diversity through Language and Literature is a final offering in a sequence of courses emphasizing human communication in many forms and voices. The course highlights important origins, significant authors and movements of the human experience in world literature from European, African, Asian and other diverse cultures. Through a continued emphasis on and review of grammar, mechanics and composition, the course develops and refines skills in expository, personal and research-based writing. This course is recommended for most twelfth grade students who read and write material appropriate to the grade level.” 

Possible Texts (*= lit circle options):

• • The Alchemist (1988), Paulo Coelho

  • The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

  • *The Kite Runner (2003), Khalid Hosseini

  • *The Metamorphosis (1915), Franz Kafka

  • *Interpreter of Maladies (1999),  Jhumpa Lahiri

  • *Survival in Auschwitz (1947), Primo Levi

  • Born a Crime (2017), Trevor Noah

  • *No Exit (1944), Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Hamlet (1603), William Shakespeare

  • *Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000), Dai Sije

  • *MAUS (1980), Art Spiegelman 

  • *On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

  • The Glass Castle (2005), Jeanette Walls

  • *Night (1956), Elie Wiesel

  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Tennessee Williams 

Possible Films:

• • Black Panther (2018)

  • Invictus (2009)

  • Hamlet (1990, 1996, 2000)

  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

  • Blue Jasmine (2013)

  • Numbered (2012)

  • The Farewell (2019)

  • Minari (2020)

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

  • Life of Pi (2007)