Module 10: Critical Reading and Interpretation

Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4 : : Activity 5

Activity 3: Critical Readings

Poetry:

Read carefully, study, and analyze critically each of the poems that appears on the list below; specific questions about any of them may appear on the assessment.

• “The Author to Her Book” Anne Bradstreet, Chapter 14
• “The Chimney Sweeper” Songs of Innocence, William Blake, Chapter 14
• “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God” John Donne, Chapter 15
• “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” e.e. cummings, Chapter 15
•  “Jabberwocky” Lewis Carroll, Chapter 15
• “Fire and Ice” Robert Frost, Chapter 16
• “The Piercing Chill I Feel” Taniguchi Buson, Chapter 17
• “The Fish” Elizabeth Bishop, Chapter 17
• “Metaphors” Sylvia Plath, Chapter 18
• “To Celia” Ben Jonson, Chapter 19
• “We Real Cool” Gwendolyn Brooks, Chapter 21
• “Break, Break, Break” Alfred Lord Tennyson, Chapter 21
• “Since There’s No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part” Michael Drayton, Chapter 22
• “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why” Edna St. Vincent Millay, Chapter 22
• “The Second Coming” William Butler Yeats, Chapter 25
• “Cinderella” Anne Sexton, Chapter 25
• “Ozymandias” Percy Bysshe Shelley, Chapter 29
• “O Captain, My Captain!” Walt Whitman, Chapter 29
• “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Emily Dickinson, Ch 31
• “Theme for English B” Langston Hughes, Chapter 31
• “Merciless Beauty” Geoffrey Chaucer, Chapter 33
• “A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning” John Donne, Chapter 33
• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot, Chapter 32
• “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time” Robert Herrick, Ch 33
• “To Autumn” John Keats, Chapter 33
• “Anthem for Doomed Youth” Wilfred Owen, Chapter 33
• “That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold” William Shakespeare, Chapter 33
• “Fern Hill” Dylan Thomas, Chapter 33
• “In this Strange Labyrinth” Mary Sidney Wroth, Chapter 33
• “They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Sekë” Sir Thomas Wyatt, Chapter 33

  Fiction:

Read carefully, study, and analyze the following stories based on the terms and concepts from Activity 2; specific questions about any of them may appear on the assessment:

• “A & P”, John Updike, Chapter 1
• “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, Ambrose Bierce, Chapter 12
• “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner, Chapter 2
• “Everyday Use” Alice Walker, Chapter 11
• “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson, Chapter 7
• “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin, Chapter 12
• “Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 12
• “The Rocking Horse Winner” D.H. Lawrence, Chapter 12

The following resources are novels and are NOT in your textbook Literature; you must borrow them from a library or purchase them from a bookstore:

• Emma, by Jane Austen
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
• My Name Is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok

  Drama:

Read carefully, study, and analyze the following plays; specific questions about any of them may appear on the assessment:

• Sure Thing, David Ives, Chapter 36
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Chapter 38
• The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams, Chapter 41

The following resources are plays that are NOT in the textbook Literature; you must borrow them from a library or purchase them from a bookstore:

• Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Dover Thrift Ed. (1994)
• The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, Dover Thrift Ed. (1990)

  Literary History:

• Literature: Chapter 50 “Critical Approaches to Literature - Historical Criticism”
• Antigonê Sophocles, Chapter 37 (Classical)
• Othello, The Moor of Venice, William Shakespeare, Chapter 38 (Renaissance)
• A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen, Chapter 39 (Realism and Naturalism)
• La Colera Que Quiebra Al Hombre En Ninos – Anger, Cesar Vallejo, Chapter 28 (Surrealism)
• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot, Chapter 32 (Modernism)
• “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Chapter 6, (Postmodernism)
• “I, Too” and “Ballad of the Landlord”, Langston Hughes, Chapter 31, (Harlem Renaissance)