What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Online resources for students in the Senior-level English course on literature and language at Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers
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Into the Light Online
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
We invite you to interact with the site through links, comments and content connections.
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
We invite you to interact with the site through links, comments and content connections.
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