The Stuyvesant High School Online Course Guide

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Modern European Literature E4ME

This course is open to sophomores. We will be studying novels, dramas, short stories, and poetry including Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Dickens' David Copperfield, Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, Joyce's Dubliners, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Voltaire's Candide.

Emphasis will be placed on student-generated discussion topics, conversations about literature, and a wide variety of written, spoken and artistic responses to the works we read. Students will keep a dialog journal in which they will take notes in class, write reflections and reactions to portions of the literature we read, and in a sense, "grow" their larger ideas for papers and projects. All work completed for the class, including journal entries, reflections, projects and papers will become part of a Modern European Literature Portfolio. Students should be willing to engage in new ways of thinking about and reading and responding to literature. They should also prepare to learn about new methods of peer and self-evaluation.