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Modern Art and Lit • These are the works we will likely study: AGE OF INNOCENCE – Edith Wharton PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY – Oscar Wilde THE METAMORPHOSIS – Franz Kafka HEART OF DARNESS – Joseph Conrad SUN ALSO RISES and/or stories – Ernest Hemingway MRS. DALLOWAY or sections of TO THE LIGHTHOUSE – Virginia Woolf STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE – Tennessee Williams CHILDREN’S HOUR – Lillian Hellman THE STRANGER – Albert Camus • Poetry of Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and and Elizabeth Bishop
http://mscrowell.wordpress.com/ • Liz Crowell • Department Chair • Office: Direct Extension 2175 • ecrowell@sch.ci.lexington.ma.us
BIG IDEAS • #1 What are accurate and reflective comparisons between disparate works of art and literature? • #2 Whom do we trust to tell us a story or any truth? • #3 What is the responsible use of outside sources in the study of literature, art and music? • #4 What habits of mind, spirit and study support good, college-level scholarship?
Sample Standard Analyze how an author’s choice concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall meaning and aesthetic impact.