Relevancy

Course Description

 
Relevancy is a literature driven course. The course is designed to help students make meaningful connections between classic literature and the world in which we live. The novels we will be reading are as follows: Frankenstein, 1984, and Dracula. In addition, we will read selected nonfiction articles and poetry that relate to the core novels. Throughout the course, we will look at the theme of fear and how our fears as a society are represented in our popular literature.

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5/9/17--Class Info

*Through the Wormhole--Are We All Bigots?
*paragraph response---what was most interesting and why?
HW: Read chapter 21

5/04/17--Class info

*Fear of Foreigners articles--read and annotate in preparation for discussion tomorrow
HW: read chapters 17-18 by Monday

4/27/17--Class Info

*Speech team student presentation
*Read chapter 9
HW: Read through chapter 12.

4/26/17--Class Info

*Finish chapters 1-6 group presentations
*Begin reading chapter 7
HW: read chapters 7-8

4/24/17--Class Info

*History Channel documentary on history of vampires with notes.
HW: Read chapter 5 and 6

4/20/17--Class Info

Block schedule periods 1,2,4,6
 
*Discuss and collect Victorian era
*Read chapters 1-4
*Work on and submit research paper
HW: submit research paper, read chapters 1-4 by Monday