Literature of retellings
(Summer reading!)
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Cupid and Psyche by Edna Barthe available online
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)
The literature of recovery/text loss/ask Tim [where there has to be reimagining]
Optional: opportunity to work with Mrs Walsh and terra cotta
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Paired with Theseus Myth (Green’s Tales of Greek Heroes)
The literature of the macabre, gothic (and of saints)
Edgar Allan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado”
The Complete Short stories by Flannery O’Connor (TBD selection)
Optional: Viewing of Poe short stories at JMAC November 12
Optional history: saints coexisting at the same time as Poe in Philadelphia and Baltimore
The literature of place
Russian Fairy Tales by Aleksandr Afanasyev
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
Optional history: Russian Century: A History of the Last Hundred Years by Brian Moynahan
Optional: opportunity to work on art project with Mrs Traylor
The literature of the English master retold
Grendel by John Gardner
Paired with Beowulf (perhaps the new 2020 translation here, unless objections)?
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Performance of Hamlet (JMAC on April 14th)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Optional: performance of Hamlet at JMAC
Literature of Saints - retellings reprised
The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Optional idea for writer’s teas - rewrite or retelling 2x throughout the year
Optional year end field trip - Mark Twain’s house, Connecticut
