A Common Inheritance

Inheriting something is usually thought of as a good thing.  Literature is a common inheritance we receive from earlier generations.  Let's see if we can appreciate and learn from that inheritance.

We'll be reading excerpts from The Things They Carried and Beowulf in the coming weeks.

After that, we'll read some poetry from different time periods and then will move on to Hamlet, which is rather poetic in itself.

Themes we will be discussing include:

• good and evil
• heroes and villains
• courage and fear
• the story of how English came to be what it is today.