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It is several pages long.  Was there anything in particular you wanted to know?

 

Well, really I guess I just need to know what literature it covers, so maybe just a book list?

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Here's an outline. If you need more specifics, let me know.

 

Unit 1 - The Ancient East (3000 BC - 1700 AD)

  • The Near East - Epic of Gilgamesh, Egyptian Poetry, Old Testament from Genesis and Psalms
  • Persian and India (1500 BC - 1500 AD) - Poetry incl. Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz, Excerpts form Rig Veda and Bhagavad Gita, Babur-nama
  • The Far East ( 1000 BC - 1700 AD) - Confucious Analects, Chuang Tzu , Chinese Poetry (Li Po, Tu Fu, T'ao Ch'ien), Japanese Lteratur (from The Pillow Book, Seami, Haiku)

Unit 2  The Classical World (750 BC - 150 AD)

 

  • Homer from the Odyssey (Books 17-23 trans by R. Fitzgerald)
  • Archilochus - assorted
  • Sappho - assorted
  • Sophocles - Oedipus the King
  • Thucydides from the Hist. of the Pelopp. War
  • Plata from the Apology
  • Cicero from On Friendship
  • Catullus - assorted
  • Horace from the Odes
  • Virgil from the Aeneid
  • Ovid from the Metamorphoses
  • Tacitus form the Annals

 

Unit 3 - The Middle Ages (800-1400)

 

  • The Song of Roland
  • Marie de France (Lay of Werewolf and Three Fables)
  • Icelandic Lit ( Lay of Thrym and Thorstein the Staff Struck)
  • Dante from the Inferno
  • Sir Gawain and teh Green Knight

Unit 4 -  The Renaissance (1300-1650)

 

  • Petrarch - Selections
  • Boccaccio from the Decameron
  • Machiavelli from the Prince
  • De Ronsard 
  • Cervantes from Don Quixote
  • Shakespeare - The Tempest

Unit 5 - Neoclassicism (1650-1780)

 

  • Milton from Paradise Lost
  • de La Fontaine - selections
  • Moliere - Tartuffe
  • Swift - A Modest Proposal
  • Pope, Alex - selections from Rape of the Lock and Essay on Man
  • Voltaire from Candide

 

Unit 6 - Romanticism and Realism (1780-1880)

 

  • Goethe from Faust
  • Heinrich Heine - selections
  • Pushkin - selections
  • Hugo - Russia 
  • Gogol - The Overcoat
  • Walt Whitman - selections
  • Flaubert from Madame Bovary
  • Tolstoy - How Much Land Does a Man Need?
  • Emily Dickinson - selections
  • Mark Twain - from Life on the Miss.
  • De Maupassant - The False Gems

 

Unit 7 - Modernism (1880-1940)

 

  • Ibsen - A Doll House
  • Chekhov - The Kiss
  • Tagore - The Artist
  • Cavafy - selections
  • Rilke - selections
  • James Joyce - from a Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist
  • Kafka - The Metamorphosis
  • Dinesen  from Out of Africa
  • Anna Akmatova - selections
  • Gabriela Mistral - selections

 

Unit 8 - Recent Literature (1940+)

 

  • Borges - The Circular Ruins
  • Salvatore Quasimodo - selections
  • Isaac Bash. Singer - The Old Man
  • Harry Martinson - The Cable Ship and March Evening
  • R.K. Narayab - Such Perfection
  • Jean Anouilh - Antigone
  • Camara Laye from the African Child
  • Andrei Woznesensky - Parabolic Ballad
  • Alice Walker - Everyday Use

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I don't know if this will help you or not, but I found a complete trimester course breakdown for the World Lit book.  There is the option for a regular course or honors course.  It is provided by Mr. Menger.  He provides a complete outline of the course, vocabulary, unit assignments, essay criteria, calendar and more.  Following his plan will earn 1 credit.  From what I've reviewed, it's quite meaty and well planned.

 

Mr. Menger's World Literature Course

 

 

Edited to Add: I've discovered the calendars break down the reading assignments.  When you click on one of them (depending upon whether you want Honors or Regular) you will first see a blank calendar with the current date highlighted.  To get the reading assignments, click on the Agenda tab on the upper right side.  Then, click on Look For Earlier Events.  You may have to click on this several times.  Keep an eye on the "Showing events after (date)" Events will keep loading until you have them all.  

 

Once you have all the events, you only need to click on the event title underneath the date and the reading assignments/schedule for that day will appear.

 

HTH

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I don't know if this will help you or not, but I found a complete trimester course breakdown for the World Lit book. There is the option for a regular course or honors course. It is provided by Mr. Menger. He provides a complete outline of the course, vocabulary, unit assignments, essay criteria, calendar and more. Following his plan will earn 1 credit. From what I've reviewed, it's quite meaty and well planned.

 

Mr. Menger's World Literature Course

 

HTH

Thank you Saddlemomma! That helps a lot.

 

 

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