Odyssey Project Review Sheet
Here is a partial list of some of the poems, plays, novels, essays, autobiographies, philosophical works, and historical documents we have discussed this year. In addition, we’ve examined art ranging from ancient Greece to modern America.
- William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (including “Chimney Sweeper” poems, “Nurse’s Songs,” “Holy Thursday,” “London,” “The Lamb” and “The Tyger,” “The Schoolboy,” “The Little Black Boy,” and others)
- William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps Up,” “To My Sister,” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” “Tintern Abbey”
- Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet #29 (When in disgrace with Fortune) and Macbeth
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
- Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?”
- Emily Dickinson, selected poems about the power of writing, the mind, and freedom
- Walt Whitman, “I Hear America Singing” and “I Sing the Body Electric” or selections from Song of Myself
- Mark Twain, “Private History of a Campaign that Failed” and “The War Prayer”
- Langston Hughes, 20 poems, including “Mother to Son,” “Spirituals,” “Weary Blues,” “Harlem,” “Hard Daddy,” “Little Lyric,” and “Theme for English B”
- Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time (especially “Indian Camp,” “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” and “Soldier’s Home”)
- August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
- Toni Morrison, Jazz or poetry selections by Maya Angelou
- Miscellaneous examples of other literary works (on handouts), including a scene from Antigone by Sophocles in which the heroine of that name dies to preserve her right to bury her traitorous brother, the poem “Holocaust” by Ron Wallace, “Grass” by Carl Sandburg, “Journey to L.A.” by Josefina Lopez, and others
- Plato, dialogues from Apology and Crito about Socrates’ teachings, trial, and death; Allegory of the Cave; ideas of government in The Republic
- Aristotle, Politics
- Buddha, The Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Vaclav Havel, Essay on Civility
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine, from Common Sense
- James Madison, Federalist Paper #10
- The First Amendment to the Constitution
- Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Four Freedoms Speech
- Woodrow Wilson, Populist Party Preamble
- John F Kennedy, “Ask Not What Your Country . . . “ Speech
- Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream”
- Hugo Black, NY Times Supreme Court Decision
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