{"id":2190,"date":"2017-08-20T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/?page_id=2190"},"modified":"2019-08-28T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:08:28","slug":"texts-and-units","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/honors-english-ii\/texts-and-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophomore Honors Texts and Units"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following lists some of the texts we’ll read and study this<\/strong>\u00a0year:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Comparative Ancient Myths, Universal Archetypes, and Modern Allusions<\/h3>\n
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  • “The World on the Turtle’s Back,” an Iroquois creation story<\/li>\n
  • Genesis from the Hebrew Bible<\/li>\n
  • Other creation stories from around the world<\/li>\n
  • Excerpts from Paradise Lost <\/em>by John Milton<\/li>\n
  • William Blake’s “The Garden of Love”<\/li>\n
  • “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Novel and Memoir: Changing Culture and Cultivating Identity<\/h3>\n
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    • The Bean Trees<\/em> by Barabara Kingsolver<\/li>\n
    • Bless Me Ultima<\/em> by Rudolfo Anaya<\/li>\n
    • Things Fall Apart<\/em> by Chinua Achebe<\/li>\n
    • Siddartha<\/em> by Hermann Hesse<\/li>\n
    • Persepolis<\/em> by Marjane Satrapi<\/li>\n
    • I Am Malala <\/em>by Malala Yousafzai<\/li>\n
    • Supplemental poetry and literary nonfiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Drama: Defiance, Ambition, and Tragic Heroism<\/h3>\n
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      • Antigone <\/i>by Sophocles\n
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        • Narrative adaptation of Oedipus Rex<\/em> and Oedipus at Colonnus<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • Macbeth<\/em> by William Shakespeare<\/li>\n
        • “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe\u00a0Shelley<\/li>\n
        • Supplemental poetry and literary nonfiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Research: Stories of Displacement<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          The following lists some of the texts we’ll read and study this\u00a0year: 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” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":2259,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2190","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2190\/revisions\/2379"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/english\/lsimpson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}