Poetry Reading

We will read and study many poets including:

Seamus Heaney, Anne Sexton, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Gray
Jarold Ramsey, Lewis Caroll, Langston Hughes, Samual Coleridge
Basho, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Howard Nemorov
and, of course, William Shakespeare
 

  Greek Literature Reading

We will read and study the following prose:

SELECTIONS FROM AESOP'S FABLES by AESOP - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

SELECTIONS FROM METAMORPHOSIS by OVIDIUS PUBLIUS NASO (Ovid) - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

OEDIPUS THE KING - by SOPHOCLES - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

  Medieval Literature Reading

We will read and study 3, 4 or 5 of the following prose:

DANTE'S INFERNO - by DANTE ALIGHIERI - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

A Virtual Tour

THE SONG OF ROLAND - by unknown - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

BEOWULF - by unknown - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

THE PRINCE by NICOLO MACHIAVELLI - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

LE MORTE D'ARTHUR by SIR THOMAS MALORY- You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

  African Literature Reading

  Asian Literature Reading

We will read and study 2 or 3 of the following prose:

THE ANALECTS BY Confucius - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

TAO TE CHING - by Lao Tzu - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to Read!

THE ART OF WAR - by Sun Tsu - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to Read!

  Ancient Literature Reading

We will read and study 3 or 4 of the following prose:

LASCAUX CAVES - THE SHAFT OF THE DEAD MAN - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to explore!

THE DESCENT OF INANNA - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

A Cool 3rd Grade Gilgamesh Project!

OR You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read and watch!

THE CODE OF HAMMURABI - You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login

Click to read!

Good answer. I agree. I am in grad classes and many of the books can be very boring, but if I dont read them I will have no clue what I am doing in my job (or future job). It would be nice if we could all buy books that were of use to us later in life. I think we can read some things everyone likes or people can pick and choose what they want to read. I do like to give choices in my class and I have a lot of books in my closet. We'll see what we can do.  ---- I hope other people respond!  

I think that students hate reading because it can be challenging. Some books have hard words that we may not know. So we could look up the definition, but that would be out of our way. I don't think people don't like reading I think that they don't like the subject they are reading. If you think about it, it makes sense would you want to read something you are not interested in and didn't understand. Or would you rather read about something you like,is new and fresh to you. I don't think that reading is the only subject that we are lazy in. I don't like math and I don't try to do any extra problems if i am struggling. Even if those extra problems could make me a little bit better it takes patients and time. During the school year I don't like to read for fun because I don't have enough time. With all my homework, studying,keeping up with all my classes and still do good in sports it can be tough. Writers only write the genre they like. They are not going to do research on a topic that bores them. Think about it would you want to read and write and research and analyze something that you don't care for. We do it thought for school so that's fine to a certain extent. I think that there is a time in everyone's life when they like to read. It may not be until we are out of high school or college. Reading is a very important skill to have I mean it's not going away. In college you will have to read soooo much if you get a head start than it will be a piece of cake.If I like a book and it is a series I want to read the whole series. If I was in charge of getting kids to read again I would let them pick a topic they like once in awhile. I might try a series of books just to keep them interested. If they read one of the books and they like it they will probably read the others in the series. Which might spark an interest in books. When we were young we loved reading cause it was something new to us and it was fun. Well that is how I would get a kid to read
                                                      from: Savanna Dawson

Well, Advanced English students, I have been thinking and thinking about how to improve student's abilities to read, write and speak all summer - night and day (no joke). It dawned on me that at some point in your life you probably enjoyed the magic of books. Then, somewhere along the line students (maybe not you or maybe you - doesnt matter) stopped enjoying reading. Reading is not like other subjects, because it IS one of the first skills learned in school and books are, most likely, one thing parents did use as a teaching tool at home when you were very young. Parents and teachers teach a child to read before he learns math or science. Then I was thinking that students who are 15 or 16 years old (your age) have to socialize and hang out with friends. Also, there  are easier things to do that require much less work - video games, talking on the phone, television, texting. However, none of those activities you would call academic or "thinking" activities. You could shut off your brain (to an extent) and do any of those activities. They require less work than reading a book - Can we all agree on that statement, anyway? I have also been pondering summer reading and how badly I want you to succeed in the Advanced program. It seems the summer reading is getting a bad rap and is causing students to drop the class and go to General English - which is a VERY VERY bad move for a student who is talented in English. So...what to do? What to do? I want you to read over the summer and, most importantly, THINK! However, I do not want to dominate your summer. So, I decided I will offer questions on this forum to allow students the opportunity to think and reply to an intelligent conversation that actually matters. To reward you for your participation in our discussions, I will make these questions extra credit. This extra credit will allow you to OPT OUT of either the WRITING or RESEARCH assignment for Module 3 - which opens July 19th. That means, by answering my question that will follow in this post, you can choose not to do either the WRITING or RESEARCH sections of the module. I didnt want you to OPT out of the Reading or Grammar, because those are SO important to have as background knowledge for the class. This will also free up some of your time.

All I ask is that you provide an answer that raises more questions and is thought-provoking and intelligent. Also, it would be nice to respond to one of your classmates comments in some intelligent way.

So, I want you to answer my question and respond to one other person in the class.

So, after all that...here is my question, which is in TWO parts.

Why do students hate (or dislike) reading and if you were in charge of getting students to enjoy reading again, what would you do?

POETRY

**READ THIS NOW!- You need to have all corrections for MODULE 4 completed by the time MODULE 5 is due. Any Module 4 assignment not corrected will result in a score of "0". So, even though you have turned it in originally, if it is not corrected it is a "0" after August 30th.

IMPORTANT - Do not forget you have your vocabulary test on the first day of class. That test consists of 50 words that are found over the 5 Modules. Study the definitions you found using Dictionary.com

 Module #5 Assignment

The assignments are listed below.

Click on the file below to download them and SAVE them to your desktop.  There is only one file to download:

The only thing to turn in on Turnitin.com for this module is the vocabulary. Read the assignment and you'll see why.

Make sure you have the new Adobe Reader 9 installed and Microsoft Word or Open Office.

POETRY meets TECHNOLOGY - Poetry and Technology Collide!

Do not procratinate. There is a lot to accomplish in this module. Take it one step at a time and dedicate one hour a day to it and you will fly through it without struggle.

DUE AUGUST 30th