English 4 Syllabus

Textbook

LITERATURE: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Twelfth Edition by X.J. Kennedy.

We will read the following works from the text:

Plays

1. "Oedipus The King" by Sophocles {4 questions on final}
2. "Antigone" by Sophocles {3}
3. "Death Of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller {15}

Short Stories

4. "The Appointment In Samarra" by W. Somerset Maugham {3}
5. "Godfather Death" by Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm {2}
6. "A & P" by John Updike {2}
7. "A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner {3}
8. "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield {2}
9. "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe {2}
10. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor {2}
11. "The Five-Forty-Eight" by John Cheever {2}
12. "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane {2}
13. "The Storm" by Kate Chopin {2}
14. "To Build A Fire" by Jack London {2}
15. "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle {2}
16. "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence {2}
17. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway {2}
18. "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner {2}
19. "Araby" by James Joyce {2}
20. "The Gospel According to Mark" by Jorge Luis Borges {2}
21. "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne {3}
22. "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver {2}
23."The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck {2}
24. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson {2}
25. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin {2}
26. "An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce {2}
27. "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut {2}
28. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin {2}

Poems

29. "To An Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Housman {2}
30. "The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell {2}
31. "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell {2}
32. "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" by John Donne {2}
33. "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden {2}
34. "In Westminster Abbey" by John Betjeman {2}
35. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth {2}
36. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost {3}
37. "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley {2}
38. "The Tyger" by William Blake {2}
39. "The Flea" by John Donne {3}
40. "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot {3}
41. "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost {2}

Works not from our text

Novels

42. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding {11}
43. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo {1}

Plays

44. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill {18}
45.A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams {7}
46. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams {10}
47. "Strange Snow" by Steve Metcalfe {5}

Short Stories

48. "The Lover of Horses" by Tess Gallagher {2}

Parables

49. "Barrington Bunny" by Martin Bell {5}
50. "Mr. Rose" by Robert J. Willis {4}
51. "The Doorway" by Robert J. Willis {2}

Poem

52. "Colin’s Choice" by Robert J. Willis {1}

Reflective Essay

53. "Lest We Forget" by James B. Willis {2}