Things to think about:

Identity—in terms of gender, nationality, sexuality, race, culture

Writing—as something personal, political, ideological; how writing works to produce change (in various genres—essays, stories, novels, drama, poetry…)
Satire
Feminism

Community
Family
Parent/child relationships
Relationships, more generally

Imperialism and Colonialism

Setting and context

Rhetorical strategies

Form and Content (e.g. the sonnet)

Terms and Concepts:
Romanticism			metaphor			ideology
Modernism				simile				satire
Nationalism			lyric				irony
Imperialism				sonnet			parody
Colonization			narrative			genre
Post-colonialism			iambic pentameter	foot
Multiculturalism			couplet			rhetoric
Cyberculture			octave
Gothic				sestet
Classicism				ode

TEXTS, BY GENRE

Stories
Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
MacLeod, “The Boat”
Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress”
Joyce, “Araby”
King, “Borders”
Poe, “Fall of the House of Usher”
Clarke, “The Motor Car”
Mistry, “Squatter”

Essays
Atwood, “Amnesty International:  An Address”
Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
Berry, “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer”
Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
Himmelfarb, “A Neo-Luddite Reflects on the Internet”
White, “Once More the Lake”
Suzuki, “The Pain of Animals”
Thurber, “University Days”

Novels
Kogawa, Obasan
Shelley, Frankenstein

Poetry
Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
Tennyson, “Ulysses”
Yeats, “Easter 1916”
Dumont, “Letter to Sir John A.”
Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,”  “The world is too much with us”
Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Shelley, “Ozymandias”
Walcott, “Ruins of a Great House”
Jonson, “On My First Son”
Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Shakespeare, Sonnet 130
Plath, “Daddy”
Dickinson, “The Soul selects her own society,” “Because I could not stop for Death”
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Cohen, “Closing Time”

Drama
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Miscellaneous Texts
“The Rant”

PRODUCTIVE UNIONS:  Some suggestions for studying

The Tempest					
“Ruins of a Great House”			
“Ulysses”					
“A Modest Proposal”				
“An Outpost of Progress”			
“The Motor Car”
“Squatter”					
“Borders”					
Imperialism, Colonization; Post-colonialism				

“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
“Daddy”
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“The Motor Car”
“The Boat”
Sonnet 130
“Ulysses”
 “Araby”
“Closing Time”
The Tempest
The Importance of Being Earnest
Frankenstein
Gender and Identity; Sexuality

“Squatter”
“The Motor Car”
Sonnet 130
The Tempest
“Araby”
“Easter 1916”
“Ulysses”
“The Boat”
“Borders”
“Ruins of a Great House”
“An Outpost of Progress”
Obasan
“The Rant”
Race; Cultural Identity

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“Lines…Tintern Abbey”
“The world is too much with us”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ruins of a Great House”
“Why I Am Not Going…”
“Bartleby the Scrivener”
“The Boat”
“Ulysses”
“The Motor Car”
“Because I could not stop…”
“The Soul selects her own…”
“Once More the Lake”
“Daddy”
Individualism; the self
Hero, anti-hero

The Tempest
The Importance of Being Earnest
“On My First Son”
“Borders”
“Daddy”
“The Boat”
Obasan
Frankenstein
“Fall of the House of Usher”
Parents and Children; Families

 “Daddy”
“Borders”
The Tempest
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
“Ruins of a Great House”
Obasan
“Bartleby the Scrivener”
“A Declaration…”
“Amnesty International…”
“A Modest Proposal”
“A Vindication…”
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
“An Outpost of Progress”
“Easter 1916”
“Letter to Sir John A.”
“Why I Am Not…”
“The Motor Car”
“Squatter”
Responses to power, oppression

“The Rant”
“Easter 1916”
“Letter to Sir John A.”
“Borders”
“A Declaration of the Independence…”
National Identity; Nationalism

“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Ode to a Nightingale
“Lines…Tintern Abbey”
“Ruins of a Great House”
Art; the efficacy of art

Obasan
“A Declaration…”
“Daddy”
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
Sonnet 130
Easter 1916
“A Modest Proposal”
“Amnesty…”
“The Pain of Animals”
“Why I  Am Not…”
“A Declaration…”
Literature and social/political change

“Why I Am Not…”
“A Declaration…”
“A Neo-Luddite…”
Frankenstein
Literature and technology

“Squatter”
“The Boat”
Obasan
“An Outpost of Progress”
“Araby”
“A Declaration…”
“Why I Am Not…”
“The Rant”
“Borders”
Community/Identity

“Squatter”
“Closing Time”
“Ruins of a Great House”
“Fall of the House of Usher”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
“On My First Son”
“The Motor Car”
Metaphors

OTHER CATEGORIES….

Sample questions:

Part C
1. 	Compare one “bad” parent with one “good” parent in two works studied this year.  How is the representation of the parent relevant to the emergence of identity for the son or daughter in each case?

2.	Discuss how form and content work together in two works studied this year.  Be specific.