This document outlines the curriculum for a 2nd year Literature course at Colegio Las Cumbres. It includes the following key points: - The course will cover various texts including the play "A View from the Bridge" by Arthur Miller, short stories by Saki and Luisa Valenzuela, and poems from different historical periods. - Students will learn literary terms and concepts for analyzing drama, prose, and poetry and will practice argumentative essay writing. - The course is divided into three trimesters, with the first focusing on drama, the second on prose, and the third exploring connections between poetry and songs. - By the end of the course, students will have strengthened their

1. Colegio Las Cumbres
Nivel Medio - secundaria@lascumbres.edu.ar
ASIGNATURA: Literature
CURSO: 2do
PROFESOR/A: Daniela Barra
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A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Revision of author's bio and context of production.
Setting: 1920's America. Italian immigration. Main economic and social
concerns.
The play: Characters. Construction of identities through language.
Themes. Plotline.
Literary terms to talk about drama (Structure: acts, scenes, stage
directions. Speech: dialogue, monologue, soliloquy. Dramatic conflict.
Tension. Tragedy. Tragic hero.)
Evidence and Argumentation. Essay writing. Essay on the play.
Revision of prosaic texts seen in Senior 1: "The Prison", "Games at
Twilight" and "Tyres".
Short story: "Sredni Vashtar"
Concepts and concerns cutting across all the texts (Home. Entrapment.
Identity. Inner vs outer worlds. The uncanny. The living dead. Freedom.
Oppression. Truth. Isolation. Rite of passage. Duty vs Desire.)
Literary terms applied to prose (Atmosphere. Tone. Characterisation.
Elements of instability. Tension. Conflict. Rising action. Resolution. Setting.
Symbolism. Point of view. Alignment. Allegiance. Imagery. Diction)
Short story: "Sredni Vashtar". Essay writing.
Short stories: "Ming's Biggest Prey" & "The Phoenix".
Genre: The maccabre. The fantastic.
Concepts and concerns cutting across all the texts (Home: hosting /
hostile. Inner vs outer worlds. The uncanny. Freedom vs Oppression.
Nature. Human intervention upon Nature. Social institutions. Capitalism.
Defamiliarisation.)
Literary terms applied to prose (Atmosphere. Tone. Characterisation.
Elements of instability. Tension. Conflict. Rising action. Resolution. Setting.
Symbolism. Point of view. Alignment. Allegiance. Imagery. Diction.
Synaesthesia. Poetic justice. Irony. Moral.)
Evidence and Argumentation. Essay writing.
Texts: "Tiger in the menagerie", "Love, a child, is ever crying" & "She was a
phantom of delight".
Author's biographies.
Context of production: Postcolonialism. Rennaissance. Romanticism.
Literary terms applied to poetry (Tone. Persona. Stanza. Rhyme. Line.
Imagery. Symbolism.)
Literary devices applied to poetry (Metaphor. Extended metaphor. Simile.
Hyperbole. Hyperbaton. Hypallage. Metonymy. Synechdoche. Anaphora.
Personification. Etc.)
Effect of literary devices in constructing meaning.
Evidence and Argumentation. Essay writing.
IGCSE unseen paper.
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Songs are poems. Poems
are songs.
(Poetry)
From the stage to the
prosaic text
(Drama & Prose)
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Narrative worlds and voices
(Prose)
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