Expansion of Civilization

High School

500 B.C. – A.D. 1500

Literature and Book Selections

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Literature List

Unit 1
Maya Writing
Popol Vuh – Creation of Man
The Little Boy Who Talked With Birds - Retold by Victor Montejo
 
 

 

 

Unit 2
The Wonderful Pear Tree
Queen Wei of Chao to the Envoy of Ch’i
     by Chu Zhai
Watering Horses by the Great Wall
     by Chang Chin-ju
Sun Wu and Sun Pin by Chu Zhai
Lessons for Women
     by Ban Zhao Pan Chao
 
 
Unit 3
Inscriptions of Darius 1
 
 
Unit 4
Selection from The Frogs by Aristophanes
The Republic Book VIII by Plato
 
 
Unit 5
The Cyclops by Theocritus
Life of Alexander by Plutarch
 
 
Unit 6
The Mice That Set Elephants Free
The Lion-Makers
Jatakas
 
 
Unit 7
The Haunted House Act II by Plautus
Selection from On the Nature of Things
by Lucretius
 
 
Unit 8
Germania by Tacitus
 
 
Unit 10
Selections from:
The Celtic Genealogy of Memory
Confessions by St. Augustine
City of God by St. Augustine
 
 
Unit 12
Selection from Beowulf
 
 
Unit 13
Arabic Poetry by various poets
Qu’ran or Koran Sura 5
 
 
Unit 14
Song of Roland
Lord Randal ballad
 
 
Unit 15
Canterbury Tales Prologue
     by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Pardoner’s Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
Everyman
Magna Carta
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
     by the Pearl Poet
 
 
Unit 16
T’ang Poetry by various poets
Curly-bearded Hero by Ch’iu jan k’o chuan
The Travels of Marco Polo Prologue
     Chapters 1 – 6
     Book One Chapters 7 – 10, 34
     Book Two Chapters 6 and 8
 
 
Unit 17
Japanese Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa
The Seven Pleas retold by Chiyono Sugimoto
The Tale of Genji – selection from The Broom Tree      by Genji Monogatari
 
 
Unit 18
Russian folktale, Fish in the Forest
Writing from Pictures
Moscow the Third Rome by the monk Filofei
 
 
Institute for Excellence in Writing Teaching Writing Structure & Style is added to all Literature assignments. All nine units are covered. Styles are practiced throughout all assignments.