For my 2012-2013 AP class, our overarching theme will be SEEING. We will analyze issues relating to how we see the world, how different characters see the world, how different authors, poets, and artists see the world.
We will be looking for ideas relating to:
having VISION
being BLIND
finding PERSPECTIVE
people WATCHING
being JUDGED
We will be starting our class in the fall with the unit that I develop this summer on the correlation between really seeing a work of art and closely analyzing and "seeing" a poem. Over the summer, the students will be reading Hosseini's The Kite Runner, and we will talk about how the novel allows us to see an Afghanistan not often presented on the news. For the first time in a couple of years, I will go back to teaching Sophocles's Oedipus Rex for all of its complex messages on seeing and blindness. "Seeing" will be an important topic as well as we read Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Styron's A Tidewater Morning, Camus's The Stranger and several others.
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