1. HU300: Art and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond Unit 5 Kaplan University Stuart Collins

2. Unit # and TopicLearning ActivitiesAssessments Unit 1: Thinking about the Human Experience Reading Discussion Seminar Final Project Information Discussion Unit 2: Art and Architecture Reading Discussion Seminar Unit project Discussion Unit project CLA HU 300.1: Analyze selected examples of human expression Unit 3: Myth and the Origin of the Humanities Reading Discussion Seminar Discussion Unit 4: MusicReading Discussion Seminar Unit project Discussion Unit project CLA HU 300-3: Relate forms of human expression to our lives today Unit 5: LiteratureReading Discussion Seminar Discussion Unit 6: MoralityReading Discussion Seminar Discussion Unit 7: HappinessReading Discussion Seminar Unit project Discussion Unit project CLA HU 300-2: Examine the impact of human expressions on contemporary culture Unit 8: CinemaReading Discussion Seminar Discussion CLA GEL 1.1: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials Unit 9: Popular Culture and the Humanities Reading Discussion Seminar Final Project Discussion Final Project Unit 10: Humanities InvestigationDiscussion

3. Any Questions Discussion Sections Unit Four Project Others?

4. Unit 5: Literature Unit Outcomes * Analyze the tools authors use when creating literature and what they communicate to readers * Investigate a range of poets and poetry * Examine reading in 21st century America Course Outcomes practiced in this unit: HU300-1: Analyze selected examples of human expression HU300-2: Examine the impact of human expressions on contemporary culture HU300-3: Relate forms of human expression to our lives today

5. Unit 5: Literature In this unit we will look into the world of literature. As we learned in the unit on myth, narratives can be an important part of culture and communicating messages. Literature can have a deep impact on our experience of the world, or our vision of another time and place. As an introduction to the unit, listen to former Poet Laureate Billy Collins explaining the youthful nature of poetry, our perceptions of poets, and reading a few of his pieces: Billy Collins on Poetry: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPla yer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=49903 20&m=4990411 http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPla yer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=49903 20&m=4990411

6. Seminar: Unit 5 1. What might account for the change in reading trends? 2. What does a decline or increase in reading of literature say about a culture? Why is reading literature important? 3. In our unit we discussed poetry, which is rarely a best-seller. Why might poetry be less popular than fiction? Where are some places that poetry does exist and thrive in our culture? What are some of the unique benefits poetry can offer to the reader or listener? influences, and circumstances that lead to these musical expressions?

7. National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study Americans are reading less Americans are reading less well The declines in reading have civic, social, and economic implications http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/trnr.html

8. National Assessment of Educational Progress The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Assessments are conducted periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. History. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ Education & School Info by State http://www.mydreamlocale.com/blog/sta tic.php?page=static060922-210953 http://www.mydreamlocale.com/blog/sta tic.php?page=static060922-210953

9. STUDYING THE “CULTURE OF READING” A culture, broadly speaking, is an integrated pattern of behavior,practices, beliefs, and knowledge. These constitute the operating rules by which people organize themselves. Though all members of a culture do not do exactly the same things, play the same roles, or understand their culture in precisely the same ways, they do all participate and thereby create and maintain the basic rules of the culture. http://www.penn.museum/documents/public ations/expedition/PDFs/46- 3/The%20Culture.pdf In studying the culture of reading, our aim was to describe the integrated pattern of reading behavior, practices, beliefs, and knowledge, and to understand how the staff and students actively created and maintained this pattern. To do this we needed to examine the physical space, the shared activities, and the individual behaviors and beliefs of the participants as they related to reading. Our goal was to describe these features and examine how they varied, and specifically to see how gender operated as a variable.

10. The Best of the Best Books? 110 best books: The perfect library: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book s/3672376/110-best-books-The-perfect- library.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book s/3672376/110-best-books-The-perfect- library.html The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/o ct/12/features.fiction http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/o ct/12/features.fiction Ten Must-Read Classics of Great Literature: http://www.squidoo.com/ten-classics Literary Classics You Should Read Before You Turn 30 http://www.amazon.com/Literary- Classics-Should-Read- Before/lm/R2MJSV3VA319Y9 http://www.amazon.com/Literary- Classics-Should-Read- Before/lm/R2MJSV3VA319Y9

11. The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had From Publishers Weekly Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind (which she co-wrote with Jessie Wise) taught parents how to educate kids; her latest is designed for adults seeking self-education in the classical tradition. Reading-sustained, disciplined and structured-is her core methodology, so she starts with tips on improving reading skills and setting up a reading schedule (start with half-hour sessions four mornings a week, with daily journal writing). Reading is a discipline, like meditating or running, she says, and it needs regular exercise. To grow through reading-to reach the "Great Conversation" of ideas-Bauer outlines the three stages of the classical tradition: first, read for facts; then evaluate them; finally, form your own opinions. After explaining the mechanics of each stage (e.g., what type of notes to take in the book itself, or in the journal), Bauer begins the list section of the book, with separate chapters for her five major genres: fiction, autobiography/memoir, history/politics, drama and poetry. She introduces each category with a concise discussion of its historical development and the major scholarly debates, clearly defining all important terms (e.g., postmodernism, metafiction). And then, the piece de resistance: lists, in chronological order, of some 30 major works in each genre, complete with advice on choosing the edition and a one- page synopsis. Bauer has crafted a timeless, intelligent book. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

12. Poetry? Best Poems? http://100.best-poems.net/ The Best American Poetry http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/

13. Charles Darwin liked poetry? lolz... if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. (Quoted from Charles Darwin’s Autobiography, New York: Henry Schulman Inc., 1950, p. 67.) http://charles-darwin.classic-literature.co.uk/the-autobiography-of-charles- darwin/ebook-page-26.asp http://charles-darwin.classic-literature.co.uk/the-autobiography-of-charles- darwin/ebook-page-26.asp

14. Robert Browning's Porphyria's Lover THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listen'd with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneel'd and made the cheerless grate … http://www.englishverse.com/poems/porphyrias_lover

15. Henry V's Valentine Poem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8k yIafrz8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8k yIafrz8

16. Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation, an anarchic group of young men and women who combined poetry, song, sex, wine and illicit drugs with passionate political ideas that championed personal freedoms.[1] Major literary works of the Beat Generation include the novels On The Road by Jack Kerouac and Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, as well as Ginsberg's epic poem Howl, in which he celebrates his fellow "angelheaded hipsters" and excoriates what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/8

17. A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg What thoughts I have of you tonight Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons? I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective. We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier. Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely. Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage? Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe? http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177128

18. Walt Whitman? Wikipedia: Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.[1] His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whit man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whit man http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPI D/126 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPI D/126

19. A selection of Poems by Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5754 http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5754 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2 0006 http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2 0006 I Hear America Singing: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5752 http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1 5752

20. Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the Harlem Renaissance saying that "Harlem was in vogue.“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_H ughes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_H ughes http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/8 3 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/8 3

21. Again by Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed-- Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/ prmMID/15609 http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/ prmMID/15609 O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.") Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-- And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

22. Scottsboro, An American Tragedy “In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to its historical significance, the Scottsboro story is a riveting drama about the struggles of nine innocent young men for their lives and a cautionary tale about using human beings as fodder for political causes.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsbor o/filmmore/index.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsbor o/filmmore/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_B oys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_B oys Justice That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise. Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes. The Town of Scottsboro Scottsboro's just a little place: No shame is write across its face -- Its courts too weak to stand against a mob, Its people's heart, too small to hold a sob. Christ in Alabama Christ is a Nigger, Beaten and black -- O, bare your back... Most holy bastard Of the bleeding mouth: Nigger Christ On the cross of the South.