Online resources for students in the Senior-level English course on literature and language at
Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
An Amazing and Uplifting Story!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A CBS NEWS STORY on an amazing and truly uplifting news story. We need stories like this one in these difficult times. This is not a joke. Please do watch the whole thing - you will have a nice reaction!
Welcome to the online community for students in the senior-level English course called "Into the Light." This course explores the use of "light" in fiction and non-fiction texts as a metaphor for truth and social justice.
Our texts include the following: Hurricanes Anonymous by Adam Johnson (short story) Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin (short story) Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis A Hunger Artist Plato's Allegory of the Cave Shakespeare's Macbeth Gaston by William Saroyan (short story) Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Selected poems by Sharon Olds, Yusef Komunyakaa, Walt Whitman
Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers Barbara A. Esmilla, Principal Wayne Gagnon, English Department
wgagnon@schools.nyc.gov
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