AP Literature Short Stories and Poems Needed!

[Quinnathalas]

I am currently planning the curriculum for next year's lit class as a final project. I am desperately in need of short stories and poems to relate to the themes I have selected. I need at least one short story and three poems for each unit.

What I have thus far:
Unit One
Characterization and Plot Developed Through a Journey
The Poisonwood Bible
The Things They Carried
Huckleberry Finn
Jane Eyre
Unit Two
Revenge
Frankenstein
Hamlet
Macbeth
Unit Three
Non-Conformity
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Catcher In The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
1984
Unit Four
Imagined Vs. Reality
A Farewell To Arms
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Don Quixote


I will be eternally grateful to those willing to help. Fell free to also suggest more books that seem well suited for the themes.

[Scheherazade]

For "revenge", Robert Browning's "Porphyrias Lover" and "My Last Dutchess"?

(Also, Atonement as a more modern novel?)

[Quinnathalas]

I also forgot to mention that I need to provide my teacher with a short paragraph on why I chose the texts.

And may I ask what Atonement would file under?

[Scheherazade]

Atonement could come under revenge.

Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party" and/or "Her First Ball" and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost or "Eldorado" by Poe for Characterization and Plot Developed Through a Journey maybe?

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and " The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats for Imagined Vs. Reality?

[Quinnathalas]

You are definately quite the helpful one :]
Thank you so much for going out of your way to assist me.

[_Shannon_]

For Imagined vs. Reality you could use the short story- "The Rocking Horse Winner" by DH Lawrence or "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce.




For revenge you could use Roald Dahl's short story "A Connoisseur's Revenge".

For non-conformity- You could use Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener", though it's kinda long...


For journey- you could use Hemingway's "Snows of Kilimanjaro".

[Quinnathalas]

Ooo, those are definately some good ones. Thank you :]

[NickAdams]

Imagined Vs. Reality
-Circular Ruin by Jorge Luis Borges
Plot summary:
An experienced wizard retreats from the world to a location that possesses strong mystical powers: the circular ruins. There, the wizard tries to create another human being from his own dreams. Sleeping and dreaming longer and longer each day, the magician dreams of his young man becoming educated, and wiser. After time, though, the wizard can no longer find sleep, and he deems his first attempt an inevitable failure. After many sleepless nights, the wizard dreams of a heart; vaguely at first, but more and more clearly each night. Years pass and the wizard creates the boy piece by piece, in agonizing detail. The wizard calls upon the god Fire to bring his creation to life. Fire agrees, as long as the wizard accustoms his creation to the real world, and that only Fire and the wizard will be able to tell the creation from a real human. His creation is sent to a distant temple of the god Fire, and becomes famous as, because it is not real, it can walk through fire unharmed. The wizard hears of this, but at length he awakes to find the ruins ablaze. As he ultimately walks into the flaming house of Fire, the wizards notices that his skin does not burn. "With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another."

-I would suggest Hemingway's Snows of Kilimanjaro for this unit and not journey.

Characterization and Plot Developed Through a Journey

-Book of Jonah

Unit Two
Revenge
Frankenstein
Hamlet
Macbeth

Isn't Macbeth ambition?

[JBI]

Malcolm + MacDuff seem to be in the revenge vein.

[kasie]

I think I'd put Macbeth primarily under Ambition, too: Malcolm/Macduff's revenge isn't to the forefront of the main plot, it's more a consequence of Macbeth's ambition.

If you want another drama for your Revenge theme, you might consider something like The Revenger's Tragedy by Tourneur - you could do a nice 'compare and contrast' essay with Hamlet! There are quite a few Revenge Tragedies in the late Elizabethan/ early Stuart period.

[Quinnathalas]

My main issue with this assignment is that I've only been exposed to the literature our teacher provided us, and unfortunately enough, I seemed to have lost the work I did on them. The one other book I added on my own was The Count of Monte Cristo for revenge.

But thank you all for your assistance thus far.

[JBI]

The Count of Monte Cristo is 1600 odd pages, just so you know, and was not written in English.

Try Flannery O'Connor,
James Joyce,
Faulkner,
Alice Munro,
and Katherine Mansfield for short stories,

Wallace Stevens' work
T.S. Eliot's Prufrock
H.D.'s Orchard poems,
Jay Macpherson's Boatman
Yeats's poems
Theodore Roethke,
Elizabeth Bishop,
Robert Lowell,
Emily Dickinson,
Walt Whitman
W.H. Auden,
Dylan Thomas,
etc.

[Quinnathalas]

I know, but its for an AP class, they should be motivated.
Or they'll just be lazy like my current class and sparknote it.
I swear I was the only person who actually read all the books assigned...

But abridged versions are also availible, however lacking they are.

Circular Ruins, what is it, short story, novel....?

I was also hoping to add Crime and Punishment, but I don't know what I should file it under... I have yet to read it.

[NickAdams]

Circular Ruins, what is it, short story, novel....?

It's a short story.

[Quinnathalas]

Thanks, it sounds really good. I may go out and read it now. :]

One last request, I need a quote to symbolize each of my themes. Anyone have any? I need the quote itself and the source.

Oh, and I still need a journey short story...