Course Content

(Those marked with * have multimedia materials as reading aids in EngSite. )

Unit One: Love 慕情互愛

Lesson 01 Ann Bradstreet,

                  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" demonstration lesson

Lesson 02 William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day," *

                  "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"

Lesson 03 Henry, "Gift of the Magi" demonstration lesson
Lesson 04 Donne, "The Flea" *

                  Suckling, "Out Upon It--"

                  Behn, "On Her Loving Two Equally"

 

Unit Two: Parent-Child Relations 親子關係

Lesson 05 Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz" *

                  Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" *

Lesson 06 Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"

                 James Joyce's "Eveline"

Lesson 07 Amy Tan, "Two Kinds" *

 

Unit Three: Teen Life 青青子衿

Lesson 08 "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks*

                  Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse"

                  Andrew Hudgins, "Seventeen"

Lesson 09 Updike, "A&P"

Lesson 10 Joyce Carol Oates, "Where are You Going, Where Have you Been?"

 

Unit Four: Self-Identity 自我認同

Lesson 11 Emily Dickinson, "I'm Nobody, Who Are You?"

                  "There's a Certain Slant of Light,"

                  "Before I Got my Eye Put Out"

Lesson 12 William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"

Lesson 13 Whitman From "I Sing the Body Electric"

                   Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"

 

Unit Five: Choices of Life 人生抉擇

Lesson 14 Thomas Hardy, "The Ruined Maid"; Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" *

Lesson 15 Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" *

Lesson 16 Guy de Maupassant "The Necklace"