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    • 1. Elements of Storytelling
    • 2. Classical Mythology
    • 3. Greek Drama: Oedipus Rex
    • 4. The Epic: Homer's Odyssey
    • 5. The Modern Novel: Circe
    • 6. Good, Evil, & Human Nature: Lord of the Flies
    • 7. Drama and Fate: Romeo & Juliet
    • 8. SLAY: Codes of Identity
  • ENG 10 ADV
    • 1. Frankenstein: The Gothic Novel
    • 2: Elements of Storytelling
    • 3. Biblical Literature >
      • MOD 1: Genesis
      • MOD 2: Another Covenant
    • 4. Drama and Fate: Shakespeare's Macbeth >
      • Throne of Blood
    • 5. Beowulf and the Epic Imagination
    • 6. Survey of Romantic Literature
    • 7. The Memory Police: The Modern Novel
    • 8. Myth of the Self: Memoir and Autobiography
    • 9. Dystopia: 1984
    • Outside Reading Projects >
      • SEM 1: Latin & Central America
      • SEM 2A: Asia
      • SEM 2B: Africa & the Middle East
  • ENG 12: CLI-FI
    • 0: The Environmental Uncanny
    • 1: Social Collapse
    • 2: Judgment
    • 3: Conspiracy
    • 4: End of Nature
    • 5: Sphere
    • 6. Parable of the Sower
    • Outside Reading Project
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Mr. Wheeler's virtual classroom
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​A PORTAL TO A JOURNEY THROUGH

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE IMAGINATION

                                                                   

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​Welcome, friend! This website is the primary hub for learning and accessing content for your English course. All homework assignments, daily agendas, due dates, and other assessment materials that pertain to your course can be found on Google Classroom.
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RUMINATIONS . . .



My candle burns at both ends;
   It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh my friends --
   It gives a lovely light!

          ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, "First Fig"
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​We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

​     ~ Joseph Campbell

 


​The power of imagination makes us infinite.


      ~ John Muir
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​  Do I contradict myself?
  Very well then I contradict myself.

  (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

      ~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself






 
​  History says, don’t hope

  On this side of the grave.
  But then, once in a lifetime
  The longed-for tidal wave
  Of justice can rise up,
  And hope and history rhyme.

  ~ Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy
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                              We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

       ~ William Shakespeare, The Tempest




       It is not down on any map; true places never are.
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              ~ Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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​We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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                                                       ~ Toni Morrison





​And the day came when the wish to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

                   ~ Anaïs Nin
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Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing
       and right-doing, there is a field.
               I'll meet you there.

                                                     ~ Rumi





​Anyone can wear the mask.

            ~ Miles Morales, Into the Spider-Verse
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​It is conceivable that Alexander the Great, in spite of the martial success of his early days, in spite of the excellent army that he had trained, in spite of the power he felt within him to change the world, might have remained standing at the bank of the Hellespont and never have crossed it, and not out of fear, not out of indecision, not out of infirmity of will, but because of the mere weight of his own body.

                                                                          ~ Franz Kafka







​Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.”

​               ~ Talmud
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​There is no God and we are his prophets.
           
             ~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road​




​What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

             ~ Theodore Roethke
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