The following lists some of the texts we’ll read and study this year:
Comparative Ancient Myths, Universal Archetypes, and Modern Allusions
- “The World on the Turtle’s Back,” an Iroquois creation story
- Genesis from the Hebrew Bible
- Other creation stories from around the world
- Excerpts from Paradise Lost by John Milton
- William Blake’s “The Garden of Love”
- “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Novel and Memoir: Changing Culture and Cultivating Identity
- The Bean Trees by Barabara Kingsolver
- Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Supplemental poetry and literary nonfiction
Drama: Defiance, Ambition, and Tragic Heroism
- Antigone by Sophocles
- Narrative adaptation of Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonnus
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Supplemental poetry and literary nonfiction
