Scope and Sequence Reading Skills/Short Stories ​ Early Literature: Myths, folktales, fairy tales, fables, African proverbs, dilemma tales, parables Works: The Analects, The Pillow Book, The Epic of Gilgamesh Epic Poetry: The Odyssey, The Mahabharata/The Ramayana, The Aeneid, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied Medieval/Renaissance Literature: The Thousand and One Nights, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Canterbury Tales, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote Enlightenment/Romanticism Literature: Pilgrim’s Progress, The Divine Comedy, Gulliver’s Travels, Faust, Book One, Doctor Faustus, The Devil and Tom Walker, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Miserables, The Importance of Being Earnest 20th Century Literature: The Short Story, The Little Prince, Cry the Beloved Country Critical Thinking Skills: Predicting outcomes, metaphor, simile, alliteration, parallelism, flashback, frame story, foreshadowing, narration, theme, paraphrase, soliloquy, oral reading, satire, hyperbole, verbal irony, parody, allegory, motif Literary Elements: Protagonist, antagonist, deus ex machina, comedy of manners, epigram, pun ​ Story Structure: Characters, setting, theme, plot, plot line, conflict, point of view (first/third person, objective/limited/omniscient), stream of consciousness, climax, exposition, rising action, falling action, resolution (denouement), summary, novella, Christ figure, epilogue Composition Skills Argument and persuasion, prewriting, topic sentence, editing, compare and contrast, epic story writing, creative writing, newspaper article, writing poetry, paraphrase, character sketch, summary, book report Poetry ​ Classic Works: The Great Hymn of the Aten, Rig Veda, The Book of Songs Poetic Forms: Tanka poetry, haiku, lyric poetry, ghazal, sonnets Poetic Techniques: Consonance, assonance, pivot words, meter, metrical pattern, feet, ode, epics, Homeric simile, rhyme scheme, caesura, kenning, laisses, quatrain, personification, iambic pentameter, blank verse, tercets