SnowySilence Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I am hoping someone here might be able to help me out b/c I am completely frustrated. My 10th grader and I are suppose to be doing World Literature this year. I have been able to piece meal some stuff together, but am not totally happy with what I have. I have looked everywhere for the type of textbook/study I am wanting and cannot find it or rather it is out of date. I am wanting a world literature approach that actually teaches literature from around the world. Everything I see seems to focus primarily on British lit! Argh! I want to start with the Bible, then move to Egypt, then Greece, then Rome etc. All that to say, I have a wonderful reading list of books so that is not my problem. Having some teacher notes to explain, discuss and help me to pull things out of the literature is the problem. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Barrons has a textbook for a guide on Amazon. I've sent a few notes out as well on this, will respond with any answers. This is an excellent question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 This wiki recommend came in today- it is not literature based, but does have a decent breakdown of 22 periods in Human Geography. Some of this is heavily detailed and may spark something for you. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/COSTP_World_History_Project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in Central TX Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I use this textbook for World Literature: http://www.amazon.com/World-Literature-Susan-Wittig-Albert/dp/0030514096/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314822238&sr=8-1 I think it would fit your criteria of having a world lit approach. Here are the unit titles: 1--World Myths & Folktales 2--The African Literary Tradition 3--The Ancient Middle East 4--Greek & Roman Literatures 5--Indian Literature 6--Chinese & Japanese Literatures 7--Persian & Arabic Literatures 8--The Middles Ages 9--From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment 10--The 19th Century: Romanticism to Realism 11--The 20th Century I hope this helps! ~Beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in WA Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I use this textbook for World Literature: http://www.amazon.com/World-Literature-Susan-Wittig-Albert/dp/0030514096/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314822238&sr=8-1 I think it would fit your criteria of having a world lit approach. Here are the unit titles: 1--World Myths & Folktales 2--The African Literary Tradition 3--The Ancient Middle East 4--Greek & Roman Literatures 5--Indian Literature 6--Chinese & Japanese Literatures 7--Persian & Arabic Literatures 8--The Middles Ages 9--From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment 10--The 19th Century: Romanticism to Realism 11--The 20th Century I hope this helps! ~Beth I picked this up at my local Goodwill last spring and am using this year with my older boys, substituting whole books for some of the excerpts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy in nj Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I also recommend the World Literature book. This is the book the Scholars Online uses for their world lit course. I have the book and am willing to part with it for the cost of shipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Nortons has a World Lit series: http://www.amazon.com/Norton-Anthology-Literature-Package-Volumes/dp/039392453X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1314827248&sr=8-2 http://www.amazon.com/Norton-Anthology-Literature-Shorter-Second/dp/0393933032/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1314827248&sr=8-3 I've been very pleased with the translations in the Western Lit Anthology. Look for older used editions if you need to hold down cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 (edited) Hewitt Homeschooling has two 1-semester World Lit programs: World Lit 1: Africa and Asia (20th century works) - Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart - novel) - African poetry (selections from This Same Sky - poetry) - Kazuo Ishiguro (An Artist of the Floating World - novel) - Poetry of the Far East (selections from This Same Sky - poetry) - Naguib Mahfouz (Fountain and Tomb - novel) - Middle Eastern poetry (selections from This Same Sky - poetry) - An autobiography of the student's choice (from a list) - Poetry as Life Stories (selections from This Same Sky - poetry) World Lit 2: Latin America, Africa, Asia - A Thousand Pieces of Gold - In the Name of Identity - Malgudi Days - My Invented Country - Other Voices, Other Vistas Excellence in Literature: World Lit (ancient to 19th century works) - The Odyssey (ancient Greece) - Antigone (ancient Greece) - The Aeneid (ancient Rome) - Divine Comedy: Inferno (1500s Italy) - Don Quixote (1500s Spain) - Les Misérables (1800s France) - The Portable Nineteenth Century Russian Reader (1800s Russia) - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1800s Germany) - Out of Africa and “Babette’s Feast” (1800s Denmark) And if you want to pull together your own world lit, ideas for works: NOVELS WESTERN EUROPE - A Day of Pleasure (Singer) -- Poland - All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) -- Germany - Faust (Goethe) -- Germany - Around the World in 80 Days (Verne) -- France - Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) -- France - Les Miserables (Hugo) -- France - Cyrano Debergerac (Rostand) -- France - The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy) -- Hungary/English - Don Quixote (Cervantes) -- Spain - Inferno (Dante) -- Italy - short story by Isak Dinesen -- Denmark - Ordette -- Denmark; 1925 play written by Kaj Munk - a play by Henrik Ibsen -- Norway BRITISH - My Family and Other Animals (Durrell) -- British family living on a Greek island - Animal Farm (Orwell) RUSSIA - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) - War and Peace (Tolstoy) - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) - Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevski) - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevski) CHINA - The Good Earth (Buck) - Joy Luck Club (Tan) -- series of vingettes set in China/US 19th-20th cent. by American Chinese author JAPAN - The Samurai (Endu) - Hiroshima (Hersey) -- biographical accounts of A-bomb victims in WW2 by an American author INDIA - City of Joy (Lapierre) -- French priest living/working in the slums of Calcutta India - AFRICA - Cry the Beloved Country (Paton) -- South Africa - Things Fall Apart (Achebe) -- NORTH AMERICA - I Heard the Owl Call My Name -- Canada; Pacific Northwest Native peoples USA (minority viewpoints) - Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) - Black Like Me (Griffith) - The Chosen (Potok) - The Joy Luck Club (Tan) SHORT STORIES WESTERN EUROPE - Metamorphosis (Kafka) -- Germany - short story = The Storm (Verne) -- France - The Necklace (de Maupassant) -- France - A Simple Heart ( Flaubert) - The Cinnamon Shops (Shultz) -- Poland - The Dead (Joyce) -- minority viewpoint -- Irish - Cosmicomics (Italio Calvino) RUSSIA - How Much Land Does a Man Need (Tolstoy) - The Inspector (Gogol) - The Nose (Gogol) - The Overcoat (Gogol) - The Grand Inquisitor (Dostoyevski) - The Queen of Spades - Gooseberries (Chekhov) LATIN AMERICA - "25th August, 1983" (Borges) -- Argentina - a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Colombia (PREVIEW: most of his works contain graphic sexuality, death, etc.) Edited August 31, 2011 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 We are using Smarr World Lit (I have used the world lit text listed before w/my dd. It has a lot of varied selections, but I think I like Smarr's approach better.) http://www.smarrpublishers.com/C2402A.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowySilence Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 Sorry to be so long in getting back to my thread! We are doing some painting in the house. LOL! Thank you all so, so much for the recommendations! I am feeling much better about things with all the ideas you have shared. I will definitely look into the books you have all recommended. :) Blessings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowySilence Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 I also recommend the World Literature book. This is the book the Scholars Online uses for their world lit course. I have the book and am willing to part with it for the cost of shipping. I may be in touch soon! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowySilence Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 This wiki recommend came in today- it is not literature based, but does have a decent breakdown of 22 periods in Human Geography. Some of this is heavily detailed and may spark something for you. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/COSTP_World_History_Project Thank you! I know you said you had posted some questions about this as well so I hope this thread is benefitting you too! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilliums Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I may be in touch soon! Thank you! If OP doesn't purchase this, I'd love to. Please keepme in mind. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Teaching Literature = http://www.teachingliterature.org/teachingliterature/lesson.htm Random House: lesson plans for a few specific books = http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/resources/lesson.html#3 Online course for World Literature = http://www.nuvhs.org/Academics/NUVHSCourses/ENG10AB.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 World Lit is rather a lot of ground to cover, even over the course of one year. I might narrow it down a bit. Maybe cover just modern world lit, or maybe only classics from non-western traditions, or ... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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