Category Archives: E2-Resources
Honors Texts for Literature and Composition
Honors Texts for Literature and Composition (E2) The Honors Track involves additional reading and writing. Or if you’ve already read a focus text for a unit, don’t worry, just substitute an honors text! For E2 Focus Texts and purchasing info … Continue reading
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Literature and Composition Videos
Videos referenced in Literature and Composition (E2): Unit 1 Theme Music from the 1970s TV show The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: http://excellence-in-literature.com/lit-and-comp/e2-resources/theme-music-from-1970s-tv-show-robinson-crusoe Robinson Crusoe Opera Excerpt: http://excellence-in-literature.com/lit-and-comp/e2-resources/opera-robinson-crusoe Unit 2 Walden Pond video: http://excellence-in-literature.com/lit-and-comp/e2-resources/walden-pond-video Unit 4 Music inspired by TS Eliot’s … Continue reading
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Texts for Literature and Composition
English II: Literature and Composition Available for purchase at: http://everyday-education.com/literature/eng2.shtml What does Literature and Composition cover? Literature and Composition is a college-preparatory literature and composition course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for literary … Continue reading
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Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration for Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene II by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) ANTONY Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred … Continue reading
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Mr Floods Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood’s Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night Over the hill between the town below And the forsaken upland hermitage That held as much as he should ever know On earth again of home, … Continue reading
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Amy Lowell Poetry
Poetry by Amy Lowell Amy Lowell is a poet who, like Cather, beautifully captures the mood of a specific time and place. We have referenced the following four poems by Amy Lowell in Literature and Composition (EIL2). “A London Thoroughfare. … Continue reading
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The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell
The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still, It is dazed with moonlight, Contented with perfume, Dreaming … Continue reading
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Midday and Afternoon from Spring Day by Amy Lowell
Midday and Afternoon by Amy Lowell From the poem “Spring Day” in Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916) Midday and Afternoon Swirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. The stock-still brick facade of an old church, against which the … Continue reading
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Bath from Spring Day by Amy Lowell
Bath by Amy Lowell From the poem “Spring Day” in Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916) Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The sunshine pours in at the … Continue reading
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A London Thoroughfare 2 AM by Amy Lowell
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. by Amy Lowell From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914). They have watered the street, It shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps, And lies Like a slow-moving river, Barred with silver and … Continue reading
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