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Contemporary Literature

Opening Discussion. Contemporary Literature. On your own sheet of paper…. Make a T-chart. On the left, write the titles of books you have read that you consider literature and on the right, do the same for books that you do not consider literature.

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Contemporary Literature

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  1. Opening Discussion Contemporary Literature

  2. On your own sheet of paper… • Make a T-chart. On the left, write the titles of books you have read that you consider literature and on the right, do the same for books that you do not consider literature. • Based on your T-chart, how would you define literature?

  3. Which quote do you identify with most? • “Literature is news that stays news.” - Ezra Pound • “Literature is the question minus the answer.”  -Roland Barthes • “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”  - Italo Calvino • "Do you realize that all great literature — Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being?" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  4. Literature While there are differences in opinion as to what literature is, there is a general agreement that some works are literature while others aren’t. Most would agree that those belonging to the world of literature belong because they have meaningful depth and they are artfully rendered. In all of the literature that we read this year, we will examine the texts for theme and style.

  5. Discussion • Should Howl be considered literature or not? Take a position based on the opening lines of the poem.

  6. Discussion • Why aren’t we reading Harry Potter in this class?

  7. Discussion • What is “contemporary literature”? • How does it differ from most literature we’ve read so far in high school? • Why read contemporary literature? • What can we take away from this class?

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