The Stuyvesant High School Online Course Guide

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European Literature E3EL and E4EL

This course is open to sophomores enrolled in AP European History (H3XG/H4XG) and other interested 10th graders. Students enrolled in E3EL in the fall will be programmed automatically for E4EL in the spring. Reading assignments will include a variety of genres from several different historical periods, which may include Classical, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary.

Texts: Required texts for European Literature will likely include epic poems, dramas, novels, short stories, and poetry. Texts studied in the 2005-06 school year included:

Fall

• Homer's Odyssey (c. 714 BCE)
• Sophocles' Oedipus the King (458 BCE)
• William Shakespeare's Richard III (1592), Othello (1603), and Macbeth (1606)
• Voltaire's Candide (1759)
• Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther(1774)
• Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Spring

• Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877)
• Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
• Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (1912)
• James Joyce's Dubliners (1914)
• T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922)
• W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge (1944)

Assignments: Writing assignments will follow a variety of formats and will often include both creative and analytical elements.

Format: The class is largely discussion-based. Emphasis will be placed on student-generated discussion topics, conversations about literature, and a wide-variety of written, spoken, an artistic responses to the works read.