ELA+Grade+12+Module+D

= Chicopee Comprehensive High School =

Extended Text (choose 1)

 * //Beowulf// translated by Burton Raffel - [|DVD, eBook, and Audiobook available in the CHHS library.]
 * //Grendel// by John Gardner - [|Available in the CCHS library]

Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

 * [|"Forms of Heroes"] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * [|"Oh Captain, My Captain"] by Walt Whitman
 * [|"The Mental Traveler"] by William Blake
 * [|"I Have a Rendezvous with Death"] by Alan Seeger

Short Fiction (choose 1)

 * Excerpts from //Beowulf// translated by Burton Raffel
 * Excerpts from //Grendel// by John Gardner

Short Fiction (choose 1 or 2)

 * Excerpts from //Don Quixote//[| Available in the CCHS Library]
 * Excerpts from //Sir Gawain and the Green Knight// [|DVD and Book Available in the CCHS library]
 * "Perseus" from //Mythology// by Edith Hamilton [|Available in the CCHS library]
 * [|"The Story of Cain and Abel"] from //King James Bible//, Book of Genesis
 * [|"Island of the Cyclops"] Excerpt from //The Odyssey// by Homer

Multimedia (choose 2)

 * Clips from Super-hero movies or examples from comics
 * [|"Steps in the Hero's Cycle"] [|Version 2] by Joseph Campbell (visual diagram)
 * [|"Washington Crossing the Delaware"] by Leutze
 * [|"Liberty Leading the People"] by Delacroix
 * [|"The Death of Socrates"] by David
 * [|"St. George and the Dragon"] by Raphael
 * [|"The Nightmare"] by Fuseli

Historical Nonfiction (choose 1)

 * [|"Monomyth"] from //Hero with a Thousand Faces// by Joseph Campbell [|Available in the CCHS library]

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

 * [|"Why Vampires Never Die"] by Guillermo del Toro
 * [|"Exploring the Dark Side: The Anti-Hero's Journey"]by James Bonnet
 * [|"When 'Hero' Rings Hollow"] by Don Gomez