Books and Materials Needed
** denotes material available free online
Novels:
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
**When William Came by H.H. Munro (“Saki”)
Histories/Biographies:
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
**The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
Short Stories:
**Aesop’s Fables
**“The Celestial Railroad” and **“The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Latin American Short Stories
Plays:
**The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary
Poetry:
**Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay
**Poetry by Xu Zhimo
Weekly Outline
Unit One: Classical to the Turn of the Century
- Week One: Aesop’s Fables (Greece, BC)
- Weeks Two-Five: The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary (England, 1613) &
The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus (Roman Judea, AD 93-94)
- Weeks Six – Ten: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria-England, 1789)
- Week Eleven: “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (United States, 1836)
- Week Twelve: “The Celestial Railroad” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (United States, 1843)
- Weeks Thirteen – Seventeen: Silas Marner by George Eliot (England, 1861)
- Week Eighteen: Midterm
Unit Two: The Modern World
- Week Nineteen: Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay (United States, 1892-1950)
- Weeks Twenty – Twenty-Three: When William Came by H.H. Munro “Saki” (England, 1913)
- Week Twenty-Four: Poetry by Xu Zhimo (China, 1897-1931)
- Weeks Twenty-Five – Thirty: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (South Africa, 1948)
- Weeks Thirty-One – Thirty-Four: Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah (China, 1999)
- Week Thirty-Five: Latin American Short Stories (Miscellaneous)
- Week Thirty-Six: Final
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