CONTENTS

Unit 1: Dystopian Fiction. Extracts from

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games


Unit 2: Crime and Mystery Tales

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Extracts from Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet
Ernest Hemingway's “The Killers”
Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”


Unit 3: Poetry

Prosody. Learning to analyze the formal features of English poetry
Extracts from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
Rudyard Kipling’s “If”
Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Dispossessed”
Juan Felipe Herrera’s Super Cilantro Girl

Unit 4: Musical Theatre and the phenomenon of adaptation
West Side Story (Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sodheim)