World Literature

World Literature Overview

World Literature in one form or another, was the one course that I taught all but one year of my teaching career.  When I became the first Technology Director for my school - I insisted, much to my principal's surprise that I be allowed to teach at least one course - and that course was World Literature.  I love the subject matter, I love the age and maturity of the students (at my year they were mostly Seniors).  Watching students in their final year high school is like watching 74 different movies - different stories - all reaching a turning point.  I wanted to see this growth - and I also wanted to try and give them a course that would help them on their way - and to give them the confidence to pursue whatever path they saw coming next.

Though this is World Literature - nearly half of the works that I taught are American.  It's not that I'm chauvinist - at least I hope not - it has more to do with teaching what I love and what is familiar to me - while at the same time exposing students to American works that they normally would not read on their own - or from a perspective that is different than what they have done before.  For a long time, it was the only class that I taught every single year that I taught (then came that year of only British Literature), even when I was the Technology Coordinator at my school.