FINE MINDS
Love...Dreams... and All That Jazz
American Literature of the 1920's & 30's - Grade 8 English
World War I - The Jazz Age - The Depression
This index page will lead you via each of the literary works studied by the Ambrit Grade 8 students: to the various aspects of the period, the lives of the writers, the atmosphere of the times and the study of the literary works themselves.
The course work on this topic culminated in a dramatic presentation by the students entitled "Love, Dreams and All that jazz......" The material on this website presentation includes reviews, images, information, quotations and examples of students' writing. The pages also contain links to other interesting websites related to the specific work or the writer.
Teacher: Pellegrina Trotta
Course OutlineLiterature Works:
'A Farewell to Arms' (Prose ) Ernest Hemingway
'The Waste Land' (Poetry - excerpts) T. S. Eliot
'The Great Gatsby' (Prose) F.Scott Fitzgerald
'The Waltz', 'Sentiment', 'New York to Detroit', 'Just a little one' (Short stories ) Dorothy Parker
'Of Mice and Men' (Prose) John Steinbeck
'The Glass Menagerie' (Drama) Tennessee Williams
'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' (Prose) Carson McCullers
'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Prose) Harper Lee - in Italian or English
Love... Dreams...and All That Jazz - Drama Performance
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