Sheron Caton

Kaplan University

Sheron Caton

Kaplan University

Unit 5 LiteratureUnit 5 LiteratureUnit 5 LiteratureUnit 5 Literature

What is Literature?What is Literature?

Figure 1Figure 1

✴Poetry

✴Short Stories

✴Novellas

✴Novels

✴Dramas (Plays)

✴Poetry

✴Short Stories

✴Novellas

✴Novels

✴Dramas (Plays)

FormsForms

Role of LiteratureRole of Literature

✴Why is literature

significant?

✴Why is literature

significant?

Figure 2Figure 2

✴Lyric ✴Read "My Letters! All Dead Paper . . .” ✴Read "5 & 7 & 5”

✴Narrative ✴Read "The Iliad” ✴Read “The Raven”

✴Dramatic ✴ Read “Number 3 on the Docket"

✴Lyric ✴Read "My Letters! All Dead Paper . . .” ✴Read "5 & 7 & 5”

✴Narrative ✴Read "The Iliad” ✴Read “The Raven”

✴Dramatic ✴ Read “Number 3 on the Docket"

Poetry Poetry

✴Where are some places that poetry exists and thrives in our culture?

✴Watch Being Erica clip

✴Where are some places that poetry exists and thrives in our culture?

✴Watch Being Erica clip

Poetry in Unexpected Places Poetry in Unexpected Places

✴What are some of the unique benefits poetry can offer to the reader or listener?

✴What are some of the unique benefits poetry can offer to the reader or listener?

Why Poetry?Why Poetry?

Short StoriesShort Stories

✴ Early short stories

✴ U.S. influence✴ Magazine fiction✴ Edgar Allan Poe

✴ Epiphany✴ Shirley Jackson

✴ “The Lottery”

✴ Early short stories

✴ U.S. influence✴ Magazine fiction✴ Edgar Allan Poe

✴ Epiphany✴ Shirley Jackson

✴ “The Lottery”

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NovelsNovels

✴Western World✴Miguel de Cervantes

Saavedra✴British Influence

✴William Defoe✴ Jonathan Swift

✴The United States✴ James Fenimore Cooper✴Henry James✴Mark Twain✴F. Scott Fitzgerald

✴Western World✴Miguel de Cervantes

Saavedra✴British Influence

✴William Defoe✴ Jonathan Swift

✴The United States✴ James Fenimore Cooper✴Henry James✴Mark Twain✴F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Popular Fiction Popular Fiction

Figures 5-14 L-->R, T--

>B

Figures 5-14 L-->R, T--

>B

✴Which books/authors do you enjoy?

✴ Which have inspired you?

✴Which books/authors do you enjoy?

✴ Which have inspired you?

Reading in the United States, 2004-2007

Reading in the United States, 2004-2007

✴ In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts revealed in “Reading at Risk,” that reading was declining in the U.S.

✴ In 2007, another study showed that 1 in 4 adults read no books in 2006. (Fram, 2007)

✴ Read Article

✴ In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts revealed in “Reading at Risk,” that reading was declining in the U.S.

✴ In 2007, another study showed that 1 in 4 adults read no books in 2006. (Fram, 2007)

✴ Read Article

✴“For the first time since the NEA began surveying American reading habits in 1982 -- and less than five years after it issued its famously gloomy ‘Reading at Risk’ report -- the percentage of American adults who report reading ‘novels, short stories, poems or plays’ has risen instead of declining: from 46.7 percent in 2002 to 50.2 percent in 2008” (Thompson, 2009).

✴Read Article

✴“For the first time since the NEA began surveying American reading habits in 1982 -- and less than five years after it issued its famously gloomy ‘Reading at Risk’ report -- the percentage of American adults who report reading ‘novels, short stories, poems or plays’ has risen instead of declining: from 46.7 percent in 2002 to 50.2 percent in 2008” (Thompson, 2009).

✴Read Article

Update on Reading- 2009Update on Reading- 2009

✴ Reading✴ “The Lost Beautifulness” by Ana Yezierska

✴ Discussion✴ Part 1

✴ “The Lost Beautifulness”

✴ Part 2✴ Analyze two poems

✴ No Unit Project✴ Start thinking about Unit 7’s project

✴ Reading✴ “The Lost Beautifulness” by Ana Yezierska

✴ Discussion✴ Part 1

✴ “The Lost Beautifulness”

✴ Part 2✴ Analyze two poems

✴ No Unit Project✴ Start thinking about Unit 7’s project

RemindersReminders

Fram, A. (2007, August 21). One in four read no books last year. Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101045.html

Roland, E. (1994). December [Recorded by Collective Soul]

Janaro, R.P., & Altshuler, T.C. (2009). The art of being human: The humanities as a technique for living (Kaplan 2nd ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.

Thompson, B. (2009, January 12). Unexpected twist: Fiction reading is up. Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/11/AR2009011102337.html

Tupac & Hornsby, B. (1992). Changes [Recorded by Tupac]

Fram, A. (2007, August 21). One in four read no books last year. Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101045.html

Roland, E. (1994). December [Recorded by Collective Soul]

Janaro, R.P., & Altshuler, T.C. (2009). The art of being human: The humanities as a technique for living (Kaplan 2nd ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.

Thompson, B. (2009, January 12). Unexpected twist: Fiction reading is up. Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/11/AR2009011102337.html

Tupac & Hornsby, B. (1992). Changes [Recorded by Tupac]

ReferencesReferences

Figure 1- Artist Unknown. (n.d.). [Photograph] Retrieved from http://webpages.scu.eduFigure 2- Koehnline, James. (2007). [Illustration] Retrieved fromhttp://james119.deviantart.com/art/Literature-1-Large-96362021Figure 3- Copyright Scribner Press, 1999Figure 4 Copyright Bantam Classics, 1983Figures 5-14 Copyrights L to R Top: Vintage Crime/ Black Lizard, 2009; TOR Books, 2003; Grand Central Publishing, 2007; Pocket, 2006; Avon, 1992Copyrights L to R Bottom: Anchor, 2001; Scribners, 1994; Little, Brown and Company, 2010; Simon and Schuster, 2010; Penguin Books, 1996

Figure 1- Artist Unknown. (n.d.). [Photograph] Retrieved from http://webpages.scu.eduFigure 2- Koehnline, James. (2007). [Illustration] Retrieved fromhttp://james119.deviantart.com/art/Literature-1-Large-96362021Figure 3- Copyright Scribner Press, 1999Figure 4 Copyright Bantam Classics, 1983Figures 5-14 Copyrights L to R Top: Vintage Crime/ Black Lizard, 2009; TOR Books, 2003; Grand Central Publishing, 2007; Pocket, 2006; Avon, 1992Copyrights L to R Bottom: Anchor, 2001; Scribners, 1994; Little, Brown and Company, 2010; Simon and Schuster, 2010; Penguin Books, 1996

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