Unit 3 - Sculpting Reality - HSD2 Literary Canon - 12th Grade - LibGuides at Pikes Peak Library District

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Unit 3 Texts

Caspar David Friedrich, Traveller Looking over a Sea of Fog, c. 1818.

Sculpting Reality - Unit 3 Texts

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Informational & Argumentative

Fiction & Poetry

Second Treatise of Government (Informational)

A Modest Proposal (Argumentative)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Argumentative)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Informational)

The Letters of John Keats (Informational)

Gulliver’s Travels (Fiction)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Poetry)

Snake (Poetry)

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (Poetry)

Ode on a Grecian Urn (Poetry)

Ozymandias (Poetry)

Frankenstein (Fiction)

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(2014). Locke on Limited Government and Toleration [Video file]. The Great Courses. Retrieved November 13, 2020, from Kanopy.

Human Rights Movement
Over the centuries, the idea of human rights has evolved from the duties and privileges set by the state to the personal rights that all human beings merit.

El Libro de la Política by DK
ISBN: 9781465466297
Publication Date: 2017-05-23

(2016). The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony [Video file]. The Great Courses. Retrieved November 13, 2020, from Kanopy.

Overview: A Modest Proposal
The ``modest'' proposal is that the children of the Irish poor should be fattened until they are one year old, and then butchered and eaten. The 10 pages of dispassionate economic argument in which Jonathan Swift advances this proposal are among the most shocking pages in English literature and perhaps its foremost example of irony.

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M. T. Anderson; Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763698225
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Subverting convention, award-winning creators M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic, outlandish, and deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin kingdoms.

Why Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th century feminist rock star
Her best-known work was published in 1792. Her daughter created Frankenstein. And today, there's a new move to honor philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Our Stories, Our Voices by Amy Reed (Editor)
ISBN: 9781534408999
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon
ISBN: 9780812980479
Publication Date: 2016-02-02
In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein --two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy.

(1974). Romantic Rebellion [Video file]. Pyramid Media. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from Kanopy.

The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson; Tom Hammick (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780374200213
Publication Date: 2020-01-21
Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before

Preface to Lyrical Ballads: Overview
William Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems produced by Coleridge and himself in 1798, was first published with the 1800 Second Edition as a considerable expansion of the First Edition's short preliminary ``Advertisement.'' Further and final additions appeared in 1802.
Wordsworth Poem Honored with a Rap Makeover

(1989). The Romantic Age In English Literature [Video file]. Guidance Associates. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from Kanopy.

Bright Stat
ISBN: 1435996364
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
A Song about Myself by John Keats; Chris Raschka (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763650902
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
This little-known poem by the beloved poet is filled with playful rhymes that are complemented by vibrant watercolors.

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(2017). Swift, Voltaire, and Utopian Satire [Video file]. The Great Courses. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from Kanopy.

Intimations of immortality in Swift and Keats: a note
The satirical technique employed by English author Jonathan Swift in his tale of Gulliver's voyage to Luggnagg in the book 'Gulliver's Travels' appears to anticipate the technique used by English poet John Keats in the third stanza of his 'Ode on a Grecian Urn.'

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Cynthia Martin (Illustrator); Donald Lemke (Retold by)
ISBN: 9781496500144
Publication Date: 2014-07-01
Retold in graphic novel form, Lemuel Gulliver voyage takes him to the strange lands of Lilliput, where people are only six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land of giants.

Lebrun, D. (Director). (2004). Proteus [Video file]. First Run Features. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from Kanopy.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Overview
``The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' is generally regarded as one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's very few achieved masterpieces. It is a narrative poem of some 600 lines, written in traditional ballad stanzas and divided into seven parts.

Wildly Romantic by Catherine M. Andronik
ISBN: 9780805077834
Publication Date: 2007-04-17
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety-- or courted it.

(2018). Literary Britain: The Romantics [Video file]. The Great Courses. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from Kanopy.

An overview of “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
In the following essay, David Furr discusses psychological changes over time, the importance of nature in the meaning of life, and Wordswoth's plea to his sister—and the reader—to remember him.

An overview of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written in May of 1819 when Keats was 23 years old and his life was in emotional turmoil.

Overview: Ozymandias
In the poem, the narrator relates what someone else described to him about pieces of a broken statue lying in a desert. Once a great symbol of power and strength, the statue has become a metaphor for the ultimate powerlessness of man.

(2016). Mary Shelley and the Birth of Science Fiction [Video file]. The Great Courses. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from Kanopy.

Overview: Frankenstein
Published anonymously before its author was 21, Frankenstein shocked some reviewers but was well received by readers. The book remains popular but is now less familiar than numerous film adaptations, many of which reduce and distort the original story of a young student who creates and then rejects a living being and is in turn destroyed by it.

Mary Shelley by Catherine Reef
ISBN: 9781328740052
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses the creation of Shelley's story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life, detailing her life both before and after the publication of this iconic masterpiece.
Making the Monster by Kathryn Harkup
ISBN: 9781472933737
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a 19-year-old woman with no formal education come up with the idea for an extraordinary novel such as Frankenstein ? The period of 1790-1820 saw huge advances in our understanding of electricity and physiology. Sensational science demonstrations caught the imagination of the general public, and newspapers were full of tales of murderers and resurrectionists.

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An Animator's Take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

(Sub)Text Podcast: Truth as Beauty in Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
- The poet John Keats is famous for the concept of “negative capability,” his description of the ability to tolerate the world’s uncertainty without resorting to easy answers. Literary minds in particular should be more attuned to beauty than facts and reason. In fact, truth in the highest sense is the same thing as beauty, he tells us at the end of his poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. What does that mean? Is it true? Wes and Erin discuss these questions, and how it is that aesthetic judgments can communicate a kind of truth that is not strictly descriptive or factual.

HSD2 Literary Canon - 12th Grade

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