World Literature
Changing the Self: Identity
-How can self knowledge, or lack thereof, become a detriment?
-How can clues help me understand a difficult text?
-How can I articulate a complex concept to inform an audience?
-How does the author or the reader construct meaning using language or literary devices?
Changing the Self: Individuality
-How can self knowledge, or lack thereof, become a detriment?
-How can clues help me understand a difficult text?
-How can I articulate a complex concept to inform an audience?
-How does the author or the reader construct meaning using language or literary devices?
Changing Societies: Anxiety
-At times of turmoil and change, how do societies and their individuals cope?
-Looking at times throughout history, how has man confronted the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping?
-What is the need for individual responsibility and action in the face of violence, war, oppression, the abuse of power, and the destructive use of technology?
-How do authors use language and figurative language to add depth to a text and its themes?
-In what ways do authors/texts offer alternative perspectives to our historical memory? And how do these voices affect the present and the future?
Changing Societies: Alienation
-At times of turmoil and change, how do societies and their individuals cope?
-Looking at times throughout history, how has man confronted the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping?
-What is the need for individual responsibility and action in the face of violence, war, oppression, the abuse of power, and the destructive use of technology?
-How do authors use language and figurative language to add depth to a text and its themes?
-In what ways do authors/texts offer alternative perspectives to our historical memory? And how do these voices affect the present and the future?
Changing the World: Responsibility
-How does point of view impact meaning?
-How do we decide what stories should be told?
-How do the resources of language influence others?
-How do authors manipulate rhetoric to convey their point-of-view or purpose?
-How do I use rhetoric most effectively to persuade others?
-How do experiences and texts shape the individual, the community, the United States, and the world?
-What is my identity and role in the world as a global citizen and how can I make my voice heard?
Changing the World: Meaning
-How does point of view impact meaning?
-How do we decide what stories should be told?
-How do the resources of language influence others?
-How do authors manipulate rhetoric to convey their point-of-view or purpose?
-How do I use rhetoric most effectively to persuade others?
-How do experiences and texts shape the individual, the community, the United States, and the world?
-What is my identity and role in the world as a global citizen and how can I make my voice heard?
-How can self knowledge, or lack thereof, become a detriment?
-How can clues help me understand a difficult text?
-How can I articulate a complex concept to inform an audience?
-How does the author or the reader construct meaning using language or literary devices?
Changing the Self: Individuality
-How can self knowledge, or lack thereof, become a detriment?
-How can clues help me understand a difficult text?
-How can I articulate a complex concept to inform an audience?
-How does the author or the reader construct meaning using language or literary devices?
Changing Societies: Anxiety
-At times of turmoil and change, how do societies and their individuals cope?
-Looking at times throughout history, how has man confronted the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping?
-What is the need for individual responsibility and action in the face of violence, war, oppression, the abuse of power, and the destructive use of technology?
-How do authors use language and figurative language to add depth to a text and its themes?
-In what ways do authors/texts offer alternative perspectives to our historical memory? And how do these voices affect the present and the future?
Changing Societies: Alienation
-At times of turmoil and change, how do societies and their individuals cope?
-Looking at times throughout history, how has man confronted the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping?
-What is the need for individual responsibility and action in the face of violence, war, oppression, the abuse of power, and the destructive use of technology?
-How do authors use language and figurative language to add depth to a text and its themes?
-In what ways do authors/texts offer alternative perspectives to our historical memory? And how do these voices affect the present and the future?
Changing the World: Responsibility
-How does point of view impact meaning?
-How do we decide what stories should be told?
-How do the resources of language influence others?
-How do authors manipulate rhetoric to convey their point-of-view or purpose?
-How do I use rhetoric most effectively to persuade others?
-How do experiences and texts shape the individual, the community, the United States, and the world?
-What is my identity and role in the world as a global citizen and how can I make my voice heard?
Changing the World: Meaning
-How does point of view impact meaning?
-How do we decide what stories should be told?
-How do the resources of language influence others?
-How do authors manipulate rhetoric to convey their point-of-view or purpose?
-How do I use rhetoric most effectively to persuade others?
-How do experiences and texts shape the individual, the community, the United States, and the world?
-What is my identity and role in the world as a global citizen and how can I make my voice heard?