Welcome to Mr. Greene's World Literature page!
By the end of World Literature you will be able to:
- Analyze various accounts of the Earth’s and humans’ creation and determine which details are common to and emphasized in each account.
- Articulate how great literature provides rich and timeless insights into the key themes, dilemmas, and challenges that humans encounter.
- Explain how different cultures have developed common beliefs.
- Examine the particular points of view or cultural experiences that are reflected in works of literature, and explain how these can deepen appreciation for cultures other than our own.
- Illustrate how a person’s decisions reveal his or her character.
- Justify why a society judges people by their words and actions.
- Explain how an author’s decisions to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) affect one’s appreciation and understanding of a text.