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)
