Current+Texts+(Honors)

The Glass Castle - test (I'm writing it later this summer), short memoir activity, and then an intro/thesis statement
 * SUMMER READING**

Gilgamesh (epic), plus 2-3 alternate versions for comparison (handouts) The Rubaiyat (poem/handout) 1001 Arabian Nights excerpt (short story/handout) Returning to Haifa (novella/handout) "The Name" (short story/textbook) "A Handful of Dates" (short story/handout) Persepolis (graphic memoir)
 * MIDDLE EAST**

Spring Moon (excerpts from the novel/handout) "Madman's Diary," "My Old Home," and "An Incident" (short stories from China revolutionary period/handouts) "Lilies" (short story from communist China/textbook) "Emperor to Citizen" (autobiography excerpt/textbook) Harp of Burma (novella from Japan)
 * EAST ASIA*****


 * I'm (Tricia) thinking of piloting some novels to run as literature circles instead this year using some the following books: China's Son, Joy Luck Club, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Sprint Moon, Bone, Please Look After Mom, Farewell to Manzanar, Harp of Burma, and The Sound of Waves


 * MIDTERM**

The Ramayana (Hindu epic/handout) Traditional Indian literature (handouts) Nectar in a Sieve (novel) - not everyone does this one; I'm thinking of piloting another book if I don't do it in the East Asia unit
 * INDIA**

Things Fall Apart (novel) Purple Hibiscus (novel) OR South Africa shorts
 * AFRICA**

Magical realism short stories ("The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," "The Night Face Up," "The Youngest Doll," all in textbook, "The House Taken Over," handout) Poetry (if time) The Alchemist (novel) or The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor (nonfiction, biography)
 * CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA**