Literature of Retellings
(Summer reading - start the Lewis first 100 pages over the summer)
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis with Cupid and Psyche Myth
The literature of the story and space
Mythology, poetry and sacred writings
Linda Sue Park A Single Shard (children’s literature)
Dave the Potter poetry (Slavery and literature // pottery and poverty)
John Steinbeck The Pearl
The literature of recovery/text loss
Optional: opportunity to work with Mrs Walsh and terra cotta
Optional: Worcester Art Museum is free October 13th (we are off) - can see ancient pieces
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Paired with Theseus Myth (Green’s Tales of Greek Heroes)
The literature of the macabre, gothic (spooky season // saints)
Edgar Allan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” (+ one more example)
The Complete Short stories by Flannery O’Connor (The violent bear it away // Wise Blood)
Optional: Viewing of Poe short stories at JMAC November 12
The literature of place
Russian Fairy Tales by Aleksandr Afanasyev
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
The Cherry Orchard or Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
The literature of the English master(s) retold
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Performance of Hamlet (JMAC on April 14th)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Grendel by John Gardner
Beowulf (ed. Heaney)
Optional: performance of Hamlet at JMAC
Of Saints (optional)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Twain)
Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw)
When retellings collide (optional)
John Myers Myers Silverlock
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
Optional idea for writer’s teas - rewrite or retelling 2x during the year
