DE LA SALLE SANTIAGO ZOBEL SCHOOL

SY 2014-2015
THIRD YEAR COURSE OUTLINE

FIRST TERM
NARRATIVES: CONNECTING AND COLLECTING

LITERATURE
Mythologies of the World
Creation Myths of the World
Stories from Greek Mythology
o Pandoras Box
o The Apple of Discord
o Icarus and Daedalus
o Orpheus and Eurydice
Roman Mythology
o Romulus and Remus
Norse Mythology
o Ragnarok

Short Stories around the World
Review of the Elements of Short Story
Structure and Parts of a Short Story
Literary Devices in Short Stories
Conflicts in Literature
o Araby by James Joyce
Irony
o The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
o A Stroll by Guy de Maupassant
Fairy Tales
Elements of Fairy Tales
Charles Perrault
o The Little Red Riding Hood
o Sleeping Beauty
Grimm Brothers
o Hansel and Gretel
Hans Christian Andersen
o The Little Mermaid
Comparative Analysis of Fairy Tales
o Cinderella by Charles Perrault
o Cinderella by Brothers Grimm


GRAMMAR AND USAGE
A. Subject-Verb Agreement
B. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
C. Word Etymology
D. Moods of Verbs
E. Faulty Shifts and Parallelism

SECOND TERM
POETRY and DRAMA: MAKING MEANING THROUGH WORDS

LITERATURE
Poetry
o Elements of Poetry
o Visual Poetry
o Odes
o Dantes The Divine Comedy
o Dantes Inferno

Drama
o Elements of Drama
o Oedipus the King
o The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus


GRAMMAR AND USAGE
A. Denotative and Connotative Meaning
B. Ambiguous Pronoun Reference
C. Comma Splices
D. Run-on Sentences and Sentence Fragments


THIRD TERM
ESSAYS and MODERN MEDIA: WORDS WITH TECHNOLOGY

LITERATURE
Essays
o Types and Elements
o Argumentative Essay
o Persuasive Essay
o Descriptive Essay


GRAMMAR AND USAGE
A. Euphemisms
B. Conditionals
C. Phrasal Verbs
D. Troublesome Pairs of Words