BRITISH AND WORLD LITERATURE

PerspectivesTM

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To Lucasta, on Going to the WarsRichard Lovelace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY

The Song of the MudMary Borden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Dulce et Decorum EstWilfred Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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How Did Harry Patch Become an Unlikely WW1 Hero?BBC iWonder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Forging a Hero1

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A Hero for Our TimeKathy Zahler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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from Beowulftranslated by Burton Raffel . . . . . . . . . .00

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Beowulf: Book ThreeGareth Hinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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Warriors and Leaders

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What makes a hero?

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

ESSAY

Accidental HeroZadie Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SCIENCE ARTICLES

The New Psychology of LeadershipStephen D. Reicher, et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

What Is Charisma and Charismatic Leadership?Ronald E. Riggio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SPEECH

Speech Before Her TroopsQueen Elizabeth I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY

The Battle of Maldontranslated by Burton Raffel . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SPEECH

Defending Nonviolent ResistanceMohandas Gandhi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SPEECH

Pericles’ Funeral OrationThucydides translated by Rex Warren . . . . .00

PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT

Argument: Essay and Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . .00

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LAUNCH TEXT: EXPLANATORY ESSAY MODEL

How We See ThingsConrad Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ANCHOR TEXT: POETRY

from The Canterbury Tales: The Prologuetranslated by Nevill Coghill . . . . . . . . .00

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Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Slam RemixPatience Agbabi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SMALL-GROUP LEARNING

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

On Wat Tyler’s RebellionJean Froissart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

from A Distant Mirror: The Peasant RebellionBarbara Tuchman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ESSAY

Shakespeare’s SisterVirginia Woolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ESSAY

On Seeing England for the First Time Jamaica Kincaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY

from MidsummerDerek Walcott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

PUBLIC DOCUMENT

Passenger Manifest (N.V. Windrush) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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Argument, Satire, and Reform

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INDEPENDENT LEARNING

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Occupy LSX May Be Gone, but the Movement Won’t Be ForgottenGiles Fraser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

EDITORIALToday’s Pygmy Protesters Are No Heirs to Martin Luther KingNick Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Inequality and the Crisis: Still Pre-OccupiedThe Guardian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ARGUMENTWhat We Mean When We Say the PeopleEdmund Burke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

HISTORYBread Riots E.P. Thompson . . . . . . . . . . .00

MOCK EPICThe Rape of the LockAlexander Pope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

NOVEL EXCERPTfrom Candide Voltaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

INTERVIEWBenjamin ZephaniahEric Doumerc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY COLLECTION

The British Benjamin Zephaniah . . . . . . .00

Who’s Who Benjamin Zephaniah . . . . . .00

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do people come to have different views of society?

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Sonnet 12William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Sonnet 60William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Sonnet 73William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Sonnet 32Mary Wroth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Sonnet 75Edmund Spenser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

LITERARY CRITICISM

from The Naked Babe and the Cloak of ManlinessCleanth Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

from Shakespeare’s Language: MacbethFrank Kermode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Facing the Future, Confronting the Past3

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LAUNCH TEXT: ARGUMENT (RESPONSE TO LITERATURE) MODEL

Molded by TimeGabriel Santiago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA

The Tragedy of MacbethWilliam Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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Macbeth’s Early MotivationBBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

The Darkness in Macbeth’s Human CharactersBBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

DRAMA

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act V, scene iLos Angeles Theater Works . . . . . . . . .00

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act V, scene iLibriVox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do our attitudes towards the past and future shape our actions?

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

DRAMA

from Oedipus RexSophocles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SHORT STORYThe BraceletColette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRYOzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Why Brownlee LeftPaul Muldoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Man’s Short Life and Foolish AmbitionMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

GRAPHIC NOVELMacbeth: The Graphic Novel, Act IV, Scene 1William Shakespeare et al . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SHORT STORYThe LagoonJoseph Conrad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SCIENCE ARTICLEWhat’s Your Time Perspective?Jane Collingwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SCIENCE ARTICLEDoes Time Pass?Peter Dizikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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To His Coy MistressAndrew Marvell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY

To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeRobert Herrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Youth’s the Season Made for JoysJohn Gay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

EPICfrom The Divine Comedy: InfernoDante Alighieri (trans. John Ciardi) . . . . . . .00

POETRY

The Second ComingW.B. Yeats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SHORT STORYAraby James Joyce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRYThe ExplosionPhillip Larkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

MEDIA: AUDIOThe ExplosionPhillip Larkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRYOld Love Francesca Beard . . . . . . . . . . .00

Seeing Things New4

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LAUNCH TEXT: NARRATIVE MODEL

The Lie That Saved My LifeClaire Nagase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ANCHOR TEXT: POETRY COLLECTION

A Valediction: Forbidding MourningJohn Donne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Holy Sonnet 10John Donne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ANCHOR TEXT: NOVEL EXCERPT

from Gulliver’s TravelsJonathan Swift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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from Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the GiantsGeorges Méliès . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why are both vision and disillusion necessary?

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

ALLEGORY

from Pilgrim’s ProgressJohn Bunyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY COLLECTION

The Lamb William Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

The Tyger William Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

The Chimney SweeperWilliam Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY

Kubla KhanSamuel Taylor Coleridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

TRANSCRIPT

How Dreams WorkLee Ann Obringer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SCIENCE ARTICLE

Sleep, from NOVA ScienceNOWNeil deGrasse Tyson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

DIARY

from The Pillow BookSei Shonagon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SHORT STORY

Surface Textures Anita Desai . . . . . . . . .00

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NOVEL EXCERPT

from Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRY

Apostrophe to the OceanGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron . . . . . . . . . . . .00

The World Is Too Much With UsWilliam Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

London, 1802William Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

NOVEL EXCERPT

The Madeleine from Remembrance of Things PastMarcel Proust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

CASE STUDY

The Most Forgetful Man in the WorldJoshua Foer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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When Memories Never Fade, the Past Can Poison the PresentAlix Spiegel, NPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Discovering the Self5

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Where I Find MyselfCody Tully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ANCHOR TEXT: POETRY COLLECTION

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern AbbeyWilliam Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

from The PreludeWilliam Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ANCHOR TEXT: POETRYOde to a NightingaleJohn Keats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

MEDIA: VIDEOOde to a NightingaleAs read by Benedict Cumberbatch . . .00

ANCHOR TEXT: POETRYOde to the West WindPercy Bysshe Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ANCHOR TEXT: NOVEL EXCERPT

from Frankenstein, Chapters 15 and 17Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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Individual, Nature, and Society

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What makes a self, and what does it mean to find it—or to lose it?

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

SCIENCE ARTICLE

Does Your Self Exist?Steve Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

NEWSPAPER ARTICLESeeing Narcissists EverywhereDouglas Quenqua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

NEWSPAPER ARTICLEA Year in a Word: Selfie Guatam Malkani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

SCIENCE ARTICLEDo You Underestimate the Joys of Nature?Douglas Kenrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ESSAYfrom Time and Free WillHenri Bergson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRYThe Soul With Boundaries Fernando Pessoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

We Are ManyPablo Neruda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

NOVEL EXCERPTfrom The Portrait of a LadyHenry James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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NONFICTION NARRATIVE

from A History of the English Church and PeopleBede . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLEJamaicaEncyclopaedia Britannica . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRYThe Seafarertranslated by Burton Raffel . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

MEDIA: VIDEOThe SeafarerKevin Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRYDover BeachMatthew Arnold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Escape from the Old CountryAdrienne Su . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

POETRYThe Widow at WindsorRudyard Kipling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

from Lucy: Lovely Englan’ LadyJames Berry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

NOVEL EXCERPTfrom The Buried GiantKazuo Ishiguro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

INTERVIEWKazuo Ishiguro: My Own Private JapanKazuo Ishiguro, interviewed by Ken Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

Finding a Home6

UNIT INTRODUCTION

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Never Far AwayVirginia Ko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY

Back to My Own Country: An EssayAndrea Levy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

ANCHOR TEXT: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Shooting an ElephantGeorge Orwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: In what ways is home both a place and a state of mind?

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

DRAMA

St. Crispin Day SpeechWilliam Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

POETRY

Home Thoughts, from AbroadRobert Browning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

BLOG POST

What Does It Mean to Be Quintessentially British?Claire McGill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

SHORT STORY

My Old HomeLu Hsun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

POETRY

VisitYevgeny Yevtushenko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

ESSAY

from Writing as an Act of HopeIsabel Allende . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

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