Intro to Lit: 2nd Short Story Unit. Beginning of Period, starters (BOP)

Intro to Lit. 2nd Short Story Unit, Beginning of Period (BOP) Introductions

BOP: Beginning of Period: Please use BOPs as a short, snappy intro to the short stories
Intro to Lit: Man v. Man: (“The Sniper,” “A Horseman in the Sky,” and “The Cask of Amontillado”) This unit focuses on Civil War (The Sniper, A Horseman) and how war affected families. “The Cask of Amontillado” focuses on revenge between friends.

 These are mini lessons used in the first 10 minutes introducing the loger short story analyses

Man v. Man: 

      --"Hey Jimi Hendrix: lyric analysis

     --"Separating Truth from Fiction," essay by Selwyn Raab. on Ruben Hurricane Carter;  "Hurricane," Bob Dylan, lyric analysis

Man v. Society

     --"Eve of Destruction." Barry McGuire, lyric Analysis

      --"Society's Child" Janis Ian, lyric analysis

      --"What's Goin' On" Marvin Gaye, lyric analysis

      --"Marvin Gaye is shot and killed by his own father," news story

Man v. Technology

      --"Musee des Beaux Arts," W. H. Auden, poetry analysis

      --"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," William Carlos Williams, Poetry analysis

      --"Rocket Man," Elton John, lyric analysis

Man v. Nature

      --Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)" Marvin Gaye. lyric analysis

      --"Who Will Stop the Rain" Creedence Clearwater Revival, lyric analysis

      --"Sympathy for the Devil," Rolling Stones, lyric analysis

      --"the Devil Went Down to Georgia," Charlie Daniels, lyric analysis

Man v. Himself

      --"the Sound of Silence," Simon and Garfunkel, lyric analysis

      --A Change is Gonna Come," Sam Cooke, lyric analysis

      --"Money for Nothing," Dire Straits, lyric analysis

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