Category Archives: English 5: World Literature

World Literature Videos

Posted on April 26, 2013 by EILeditor

Videos referenced in World Literature (E5): Unit 1 Ancient Greek Music – Macedonia: http://excellence-in-literature.com/world-lit/e5-resources/ancient-greek-music-macedonia Unit 4 Recitation of Dante’s Inferno (5th canto) in the original Italian: http://excellence-in-literature.com/world-lit/e5-resources/recitation-of-dantes-inferno-by-roberto-benigni Unit 6 Placido Domingo sings La Marseillaise: http://excellence-in-literature.com/world-lit/e5-resources/la-marseillaise-sung-by-placido-domingo Band version of La Marseillaise, … Continue reading →

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Honors Texts for World Literature

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Rebecca

Honors Texts for World Literature (E5) 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 E5 Focus Texts and purchasing info for … Continue reading →

Posted in Bookstore, E5-Resources | Tagged alexis de tocqueville, brothers karamazov, c.s. lewis, charles dickens, christopher marlowe, dante, democracy in america, doctor faustus, dostoyevsky, frankenstein, fyodor dostoyevsky, homer, honors, honors texts, hunchback of notre dame, iliad, lewis, lives, lives of the noble grecians and romans, mary shelley, oedipus rex, oscar wilde, paradise, paradisio, pickwick papers, picture of dorian gray, plutarch, purgatorio, purgatory, screwtape letters, shape of my early life, sophocles, surprised by joy, surprised by joy: the shape of my early life, tocqueville, victor hugo, world literature | Comments Off

Texts for World Literature

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Rebecca

English V: World Literature Available for purchase at: http://everyday-education.com/literature/eng5.shtml What does World Literature cover? World Literature is a college-prep literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for literary quality, and for their … Continue reading →

Posted in Bookstore, E5-Resources | Tagged aeneid, antigone, babette's feast, cervantes, dante, divine comedy, don quixote, faust, focus works, george gibian, goethe, homer, inferno, isak dinesen, les mis, les misérables, odyssey, out of africa, portable nineteenth century russian reader, sophocles, victor hugo, virgil, world literature | Comments Off

Why We Read the Odyssey by Deborah Stokol

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Rebecca

A Letter to Students on Why We Read The Odyssey Tuesday, March 9, 2010 By Deborah Stokol I’ve been full-time substitute teaching English at Harvard-Westlake, my Alma mater, for six weeks now, lecturing on The Odyssey and covering Creative Writing. … Continue reading →

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Out of Africa soundtrack music

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Rebecca

The soundtrack for Out of Africa has beautiful and evocative music. Get it from your library or bookstore and listen to it as you study. You can listen to an excerpt in the video below.

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Faust Silent Movie 1926

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Rebecca

The entire 1926 movie of Goethe’s Faust is available with English subtitles on YouTube, posted by “djihenn.” This is a silent film, with music composed and conducted by Timothy Brock and performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra. Since images and … Continue reading →

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Faust Opera Performance Video Excerpt

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Rebecca

This is a video clip of an opera performance of Faust. Because images and characters from Faust can (and should) be disturbing, these clips are totally optional.