Blue Mountain Academy
Literature
BMA Literature
Course Outline
High School Credit: 1/4 credit
Textbook—Literature and Language, McDougal & Little (Orange Level)
Other books deemed appropriate for class use
Class requires 7.5 hours per week
Materials Needed:
- Textbook—Literature and Language
- McDougal & Littell (Orange Level)
- Textbook
- Pens
- Paper
- Folder
- Computer w/ Microsoft Word
Welcome to BMA Literature. This course should help the student get a good overview of literature. It does this by using short stories and poetry to illustrate different genres, elements, styles, themes, etc. of literature written in diverse times and places. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of the student to the literature. Most assignments are interpretive in nature, asking the student to use his experience to form an opinion on what he’s read and explain it in literature of his own making.
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Questions or Comments – Questions or comments can be addressed to:
Literature
Mark Bradford Director of Education
San Juan County Jail Education Center
PO Box 788
Monticello, Utah 84535
| Literature Syllabus | |
|---|---|
| Literature and Language | |
| Reading.................................................................................................... | Discussion/Homework |
| "One Throw"-W.C.Heinz.............................................................................. | Strategies for Reading |
| Week 1. Reality: Illusions and Deceptions | |
| "A Mother in Manville"-Marjonie Kinnan Rawlings......................................... | Elements of Fiction |
| "A Retrieved Reformation"-O. Henry............................................................ | Elements of Fiction (cont'd) |
| "Fool's Paradise"-Floyd Dell......................................................................... | Elements of Nonfiction |
| Week 2. Reality: Blind Spots | |
| “Annabel Lee”—Edgar Allan Poe.................................................................. | Elements of Poetry |
| “Incident in a Rose Garden”—Donald Justice................................................. | Elements of Poetry (cont’d) |
| “The Necklace”—Guy de Maupassant.......................................................... | Elements of Poetry (cont’d) |
| “The Stolen Party”—Lillian Hiker.................................................................. | Elements of Poetry (cont’d) |
| “The Pocketbook Game”—Alice Childress..................................................... | Elements of Poetry (cont’d) |
| “A Sunny Morning”—Sera fin & Joaquin Alvarez Quintero............................... | Elements of Poetry (cont’d) |
| Week 3. Reality: Coming to Termss | |
| “Snake Boy”—Jamie High-water.................................................................. | Applying Understanding |
| “The Scholarship Jacket”—Marta Salinas...................................................... | Applying Understanding |
| “Saying Yes”—Diana Chang......................................................................... | Applying Understanding |
| “On Being 17, Bright, & Unable to Read”—David Raymond............................. | Applying Understanding |
| Quiz on “Reality” Unit Subjects | |
| Week 4. Obstacles: In the Heroic Tradition (Taken from Homer’s “The Odyssey”) | |
| --New Coasts............................................................................................. | Description and Persuasion |
| --The Lotus Eaters...................................................................................... | Description and Persuasion |
| --The Land of the Cyclopes........................................................................... | Description and Persuasion |
| --Circe, the Enchantress.............................................................................. | Description and Persuasion |
| --Sea Perils and Defeat............................................................................... | Description and Persuasion |
| --The Sirens............................................................................................... | Description and Persuasion |
| --Scylla and Charybdis................................................................................. | Description and Persuasion |
| Week 5. Obstacles: Small Victories | |
| From “All Things Bright and Beautiful”—James Herriot................................... | Persuasion and Evaluation |
| “Everybody Knows Toby”—Daniel Garza....................................................... | Persuasion and Evaluation |
| From “An American Childhood”—Annie Dillard............................................... | Persuasion and Evaluation |
| BMA Ch 6. Congruent Triangles | |
| “A Trip to the Edge of Survival”—Ron Arias.................................................... | Synthesis & Sentence Building |
| “Giving Blood”—Roberta Silman.................................................................. | Synthesis & Sentence Building |
| “The Gift of Cochise” Louis L’Amour.............................................................. | Synthesis & Sentence Building |
| “The Other Pioneers”—Roberto Felix Salazar................................................ | Synthesis & Sentence Building |
| Quiz on “Obstacles” Unit | |
| Week 7. Relationships: Bittersweet Memories | |
| “Aunt Zurletha”—Ruby Dee........................................................................ | Exposition: Process Composition & Speech |
| “Li Chang’s Million”—Henry Gregor Felson................................................... | Exposition: Process Composition & Speech |
| “The Cub”—Lois Dykeman Keihauer............................................................ | Exposition: Process Composition & Speech |
| “My Father”—Erma Bombeck..................................................................... | Exposition: Process Composition & Speech |
| “Taught Me Purple”—Evelyn Tooley Hunt..................................................... | Exposition: Process Composition & Speech |
| “The Secret Heart”—Robert P. Tristram Coffin............................................... | Exposition: Process Composition & Speech |
| Week 8. Relationships: Points of Conflict | |
| From “Annie John”—Jamaica Kincaid............................................................ | Exposition: Explanation of Cause |
| Chapter 9.2 Homework.............................................................................. | Exposition: Explanation of Cause |
| Chapter 9.3 Homework.............................................................................. | Exposition: Explanation of Cause |
| Chapter 9.4 Homework.............................................................................. | Exposition: Explanation of Cause |
| Chapter 9.5 Homework............................................................................. | Exposition: Explanation of Cause |
| Week 9. Relationships: Commanding Respect | |
| “Thank You, M’am”—Langston Hughes........................................................ | Exposition: Supporting Generalizations |
| “A Celebration of Grandfathers”—Rodolfo A. Anaya....................................... | Exposition: Supporting Generalizations |
| “Legacy II”—Leroy V. Quintana................................................................... | Exposition: Supporting Generalizations |
| “Too Soon a Woman”—Dorothy M. Johnson.................................................. | Exposition: Supporting Generalizations |
| “A Journey”—Nikki Giovanni........................................................................ | Exposition: Supporting Generalizations |
| “The Courage that My Mother Had”—Edna St. Vincent Millay........................ | Exposition: Supporting Generalizations |
| “Lineage”—Margaret Walker...................................................................... | Exposition: Supporting Generalizations |
| Quiz on “Relationships” Unit | |
| Week 10: High Expectations: Sheer Determination | |
| “Frederick Douglass”—J. A. Rogers.............................................................. | Exposition: Research Biography |
| “The Way Up”—William Hoffman................................................................ | Exposition: Research Biography |
| “Thumbprint”—Eve Merriam...................................................................... | Exposition: Research Biography |
| “Margaret Truman”—the United States vs. Susan B. Anthony.......................... | Exposition: Research Biography |
| Week 11. Relationships: Making Adjustments | |
| “A Measure of Freedom”—Jade Snow Wong.................................................. | Persuasion |
| “Prospective Immigrants Please Note”—Adrienne Rich................................... | Persuasion |
| “Lost”—Bruce Ignacio................................................................................ | Persuasion |
| “Brothers Are the Same”—Beryl Markham................................................... | Persuasion |
| “Say It with Flowers”—Toshio Mori.............................................................. | Persuasion |
| “Identity”—Julio Noboa Polanco.................................................................. | Persuasion |
| Week 12. Relationships: Lessons Learned | |
| From “A Choice of Weapons”—Gordon Parks................................................. | Narration |
| “The Artist”—Isabelle C. Chang................................................................... | Narration |
| “Just Try to Forget”—Nathaniel Benchley...................................................... | Narration |
| “Every Good Boy Does Fine”—David Wagoner............................................... | Narration |
| “Beauty is Truth”—Anna Guest.................................................................... | Narration |
| Week 13. Turning Points: Opportunity Knocks | |
| “Three Wise Guys: Un Cuento de Navidad”—Sandra Cisneros.......................... | Creative Expression |
| “Red Dress—1946”—Alice Munro................................................................ | Creative Expression |
| ““Long Distance”—Carole Gregory............................................................... | Creative Expression |
| From “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings”—Maya Angelou............................... | Creative Expression |
| “Metaphor”—Eve Merriam........................................................................ | Creative Expression |
| Week 14. Turning Points: Decisions and Consequences | |
| “Button, Button”—Richard Matheson.......................................................... | Exposition: Newspaper Article |
| “The Two Brothers”—Leo Tolstoy................................................................ | Exposition: Newspaper Article |
| “The Lesson of the Moth”—Don Marquis...................................................... | Exposition: Newspaper Article |
| “Not to Go with the Others”—John Hersey.................................................... | Exposition: Newspaper Article |
| “The Scarlet Ibis”—James Hurst.................................................................. | Exposition: Newspaper Article |
| “Woman with Flower”—Naomi Long Madgett............................................... | Exposition: Newspaper Article |
| Week 15. Turning Points: Awakenings | |
| “The Miracle Worker” (Acts 1-3)—William Gibson.......................................... | Literary Analysis |
| “Fable for when there’s No Way Out”—May Swenson..................................... | Literary Analysis |
| Week 16. The Classic Tradition: Romeo and Juliet | |
| Acts 1-5 of “Romeo and Juliet”—William Shakespeare.................................... | Writer’s Choice |
| “Fable for when there’s No Way Out”—May Swenson..................................... | Writer’s Choice |
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